About Us:
Social Enterprise Link (Wessex) CIC was launched in 2011 to become the leading specialist Social and Solidarity Enterprise infrastructure organisation opening up opportunities for Social Enterprises in central Southern England.
We provide services for and to the Social Enterprise sector, including work with the private, public and non-trading (or voluntary) charity sectors.
Examples of our work include;
Together, often working as part of the VCSE we are facilitating the creation of a strong local Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprise Sector in Hamphire, Dorset, Isle of Wight and beyond.
Our mission is to help create and then maintain a sector that commands a more signifcant part of the local and regional economy by 2035. We calculate the sector turns over more than £2 billion of the 2018 Wessex regional economy and adds signifcant social value.
If you are a Social Enterprise please Join us to take make the most of SEL's VCSE infrastructure support and strengthen the sectors voice. SEL are members of SEUK, we help coordinate Solent Social Enterprise Zone and we are working on projects to develop Social Enterprise Hubs, an on-line Social Enterprise Platform, Solidarity and Co-operative Finance and a Solidarity Economy Network.
We will provide you with services or signpost you to our expert members. We can help you start a social enterprise, buy from a social enterprise, develop your social enterprise, find investment and funding opportunities, market your social enterprise, commission social enterprises, find educational opportunities at Colleges and Universities or for anything social and cooperative enterprise in Wessex.
About the Social and Solidarity Enterprise sector
Social and solidarity economy enterprises produce and sell with people and planet embedded in the constitution and the DNA of all social entrepreneurs.
We have been working since 2011 in Bournemouth, Dorset, Southampton, Poole, Portsmouth and Hampshire with social, community and cooperative enterprises, with economic development infrastructure organisations to make this a reality.
Social Enterprise Link is an democratic organisation with individual and orgnisational members, and we ask members to show evidence of their socially responsible production, trading and work practices.
We believe:
We are members of a number of cooperatives, consortia, trade associations and informal networks including;
SEL draws on SEUK's description. They say: Social enterprises are businesses trading to tackle social problems, improve communities, people’s life chances, or the environment. They;
And there are many in our communities and on our high streets – from coffee shops and cinemas, to pubs and leisure centres, banks and bus companies, care providers and many more.
Co-operatives are a flexible business model. They can be set up in different ways, using different legal structures, depending on what works for the members.
The definition of a co-operative business is that they are owned and run by the members - the people who benefit from the co-operative's services.
Although they carry out all kinds of business, all co-operative businesses have core things in common.
Solent Social Enterprise Place has 3 major aims:
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