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Social Enterprise in the UK


Jess Tyrrell, Feb 2011
Motivation - why run a social
enterprise? It’s difficult.
Social foundations in the UK.
Economic Foundations.
Promises.
Alternative arguments.


                          “Progress is a myth and when you live
                          inside a myth it looks like a fact - John
                                            Gray.”



✤   growth is finite

✤   resources are finite

✤   speculative wealth and debt is finite
It’s been a bad week for...
Social enterprise in different
forms.
                                Social Impact Bonds
                                                                                           People’s Supermarket
         Public Sector Commissioning


                                                                                                    One Water/Global Ethics

                                                                    Livity
                      Asset Based Community Trusts




Social
                                                            Zopa - peer lending platform


                                             Pants to Poverty                                                       Innocents
         Community Development                                                              Black Farmer

                                                                                                           Cause Related Marketing




                                                       Commercial
Innocent Drinks.
Global Ethics - One Difference.




                         £5m raised
                       £1m lives saved
Livity - Social Comunications.
People’s Supermarket.
Links
✤   http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/2010/06/28/rsa-animate-crisis-capitalism/



✤   http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/29/john-gray-philosophy-politics-globalisation



✤   http://www.slideshare.net/NickJE/radicalreinvention



✤   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPoLDiTO3zc



✤   http://www.innocentfoundation.org/



✤   http://www.onedifference.org/



✤   http://livity.co.uk/



✤   http://www.thepeoplessupermarket.org/



✤   http://www.schoolforstartups.co.uk/



✤   http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/

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Why social enterprise in the UK

  • 1. Social Enterprise in the UK Jess Tyrrell, Feb 2011
  • 2. Motivation - why run a social enterprise? It’s difficult.
  • 3.
  • 6.
  • 8. Alternative arguments. “Progress is a myth and when you live inside a myth it looks like a fact - John Gray.” ✤ growth is finite ✤ resources are finite ✤ speculative wealth and debt is finite
  • 9. It’s been a bad week for...
  • 10. Social enterprise in different forms. Social Impact Bonds People’s Supermarket Public Sector Commissioning One Water/Global Ethics Livity Asset Based Community Trusts Social Zopa - peer lending platform Pants to Poverty Innocents Community Development Black Farmer Cause Related Marketing Commercial
  • 12. Global Ethics - One Difference. £5m raised £1m lives saved
  • 13. Livity - Social Comunications.
  • 15. Links ✤ http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/2010/06/28/rsa-animate-crisis-capitalism/ ✤ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/29/john-gray-philosophy-politics-globalisation ✤ http://www.slideshare.net/NickJE/radicalreinvention ✤ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPoLDiTO3zc ✤ http://www.innocentfoundation.org/ ✤ http://www.onedifference.org/ ✤ http://livity.co.uk/ ✤ http://www.thepeoplessupermarket.org/ ✤ http://www.schoolforstartups.co.uk/ ✤ http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/