This document provides an introduction to social entrepreneurship presented by George Konstantakopoulos. It defines social entrepreneurship as businesses that trade for social and environmental purposes. Examples of social enterprises discussed include GiveMe Tap, which decreases plastic bottle consumption, and Harry Specters, which employs people with autism. The document also discusses the number of social enterprises in the UK and EU and the purpose of the Manchester Social Entrepreneurs group in bringing people together to facilitate change. Questions are posed about the role of citizens in addressing environmental and social issues.

1. Manchester
Social Entrepreneurs
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2. @SpaceportX @BarCampMCR
Special thanks

3. Who’s talking?
George Konstantakopoulos - Innovation, Technology, Marketing & Startup
Enthusiast
- Professional experience in Sales, Telecoms,
Marketing, Business Development
- BEng in Computer Networks
- PGR in Social Entrepreneurship
- Founder of SocialGrowth and Manchester
Social Entrepreneurs
@konstant_g

4. In Corporate Social Responsibility & Social Entrepreneurship
in Manchester Business School
A year in research visualized

5. What is Entrepreneurship?
Christopher Columbus as an example.
• Multiple fails to raise capital as he pitched
his idea to Portugal, England, Genoa and
Venice – all rejected his plan.
• He managed to sail to the New World with
the backing of a venture capitalist. Spain
(King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella) agreed
to back him so the ‘start-up’ launched.
“The entrepreneur is the one who undertakes a venture,
organizes it, raises capital to finance it, and assumes all
or a major portion of the risk. Entrepreneurs also appear
to be the prime change agents in a society.”
Connecting the right dots to make it work

6. What is Social Entrepreneurship?
A social enterprise is a business that trades for a social and/or
environmental purpose.
Source: http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/about/about-social-enterprise/FAQs

7. (Source: Cabinet Office: Office of the Third Sector).
Social Enterprises
Among other things, they:
 Tackle social and environmental problems
 Improve public services and shape public service design particularly as ethical
consumerism increases in popularity
 Offer a high level of engagement with users and a capacity to build their trust
 Pioneer new approaches
 Encourage under-represented groups (e.g. women, youth and offenders)
Planet
ProfitPeople

8. UK Gov definition of a Social Enterprise
1. The enterprise must consider itself to be a social enterprise.
2. It should not pay more than 50 per cent of profit or surplus to owners or
shareholders.
3. It should not generate more than 75 per cent of income from grants and
donations.
4. It should not generate less than 25 per cent of income from trading.
5. It should agree that it is ‘a business with primarily social/environmental objectives,
whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or
community rather than mainly being paid to shareholders and owners’.
1-4: ‘good fit’
+ 5: ‘very good fit’

9. • Very good fit SME social enterprises rises to 283,500
estimated to have total annual incomes of £54.9 billion*
• The total number of good fit social enterprises is 688,200
estimated to have total annual incomes of £162.8 billion*
UK - Number of Social Enterprises
*Financial institutions included

10. EU - Number of Social Enterprises

11. The purpose of
Manchester Social Entrepreneurs
 Bring like minded people together
 Influence / help make change happen
 By working together
 Provide the space to facilitate change

12. Say “Give Me Tap” and
you get tap water in high
street partner’s shops
Decrease plastic bottle
consumption
Create water wells in
Ghana, Namibia, Malawi,
and more
@givemetap
Case Study 1: GiveMe Tap

13. Entrepreneur with a teenage son with autism - he came
with the name.
Because of his experience he is helping people with
autism providing them a safe environment to work
through Harry Specters to make chocolates.
Currently expanding across UK
Case Study 2: Harry Specters

14. Social Enterprises & Socially Responsible Businesses
To catalyse a better way of doing
business for the wellbeing of
people and the planet.

15. Socially Responsible Businesses
• Case Study: Patagonia

16. Social Enterprises & Social Responsible Businesses
Projects by area of focus
(examples)
Human needs projects (People, Water, Poverty, Food,
Sanitation)
Society projects (human rights, inequality,
rehabilitation, disabilities)
Green Energy / projects (Waste management, planet,
animals, recycling, recyclable, Up-cycling)

17. Have you ever considered?
Is it just business
causing this
mess?

18. What are your concerns?

19. I believe that I (we) might be more responsible than businesses!
After all we consume their products, we pay them to do what
they do!
So how can we pay and make a difference?
What is our role as citizens in all this?
€
£
¥
$
What are your concerns?

20. Questions?
• What are your thoughts?
• What brings you here?
• What attracted your interest?
@konstant_g

21. Manchester
Social Entrepreneurs
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