About Social Enterprise project
With the aim of promoting the concept of social entrepreneurship across Serbia, we have started the Social Enterprise project.
As part of this project, in partnership with the Young With Disabilities Forum, we are currently running a programme that consists of training for development of social enterprise business plans - Think Social. Act Business. Find out more about this programme.
Who is a Social Entrepreneur?
Social Enterprise is defined as ‘a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community’. In simpler language that means it is:
businessSocial entrepreneurs offer innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. The social purpose of what they do is central to their business.
The strength of Social Entrepreneurship
Social Enterprise encourages positive social change and social inclusion. It supports civil society, the economic empowerment of disadvantaged groups and environmental and economic development. It enables communities to take responsibility for themselves.
Social Entrepreneurs challenge and help government to improve the way public services are designed and delivered. They can also raise standards for ethical business and corporate social responsibility.
Social Entrepreneurs prove that social and environmental responsibility can be combined with financial success. Social enterprises account for 5% of all businesses with employees and contribute over £8 billion per year to the UK economy - around 1% of annual GDP.
The project in South East Europe has four core elements:
raising awareness of the benefits which Social Enterprise offers to individuals, communities, business and government and providing information and practical adviceSocial Enterprise project will provide an international learning and networking programme by reaching over 100,000 people, 1,000 communities and 500 institutions across the UK and worldwide.
If you want to know more about this project, please contact Mirjana Nikolić in our office in Belgrade.
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