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Abstract
Social enterprises are, at heart, businesses that offer economically sustainable business solutions to social problems.Footnote1 (DTI, 2003)
Notes
1. Department for Trade & Industry website.
2. ‘Social Justice: Strategies for National Renewal’ Commission on Social Justice, 1994.
3. HM Treasury, 1999.
4. Enterprise for Communities: Proposals for a Community Interest Company (DTI, 2003). This was a consultation paper, the results of which are now available on the DTI website www.dti.gov.uk/cics.
5. ‘Enterprising Communities: wealth beyond welfare’ October 2000.
6. www.cdfa.org.uk
7. DTI have an annual award and the New Economics Foundation operates Inner City 100.
8. Guidance on Mapping Social Enterprise, ECOTEC Research & Consulting Ltd (DTI, 2003).
9. Social Firms national mapping available on www.ermis.co.uk
10. Intermediate Labour markets in Britain and an International Review of Transitional Employment Programmes (Finn & Simmonds, Citation2003).
11. Again there are definitional issues with the sample including some public and private bodies.
12. See Institute for Philanthropy for analysis of growth trends. www.instituteforphilanthropy.org.uk
13. Social Enterprise: A Strategy for Success (DTI, 2002).
14. Mapping The Social Economy And Social Enterprise In The UK and London (Institute for Philanthropy (IfP)).
15. The full social account is available from the Furniture Resource Centre's website www.furnitureresourcecentre.com
16. Social Enterprise: a Strategy for Success (DTI, p. 15).
17. SVQ or Scottish Vocational Qualification, equivalent to NVQs.