#11. Get behind, impostor!

The article I'm sharing on today is actually an interview by The Pioneers Post to Social Enterprise UK.

It's quite interesting as they picked some tough questions for them, and in turn received pretty good answers.

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So who is Social Enterprise UK?

They're made up of private businesses, charities and public sector organisations who support our vision of a world where social enterprise is the usual way of doing business.  

Sooo all these organisations are their members, and these are the services they provide for their members:

• Run effective campaigns for our members and to lobby on the sector's behalf
• Carry out robust and respected research to help paint a picture of the UK's social enterprise movement
• Build networks between social enterprises
• Raise the profile of people and social enterprises in the sector

One of the GREATER and more recent things Social Enterprise UK did was to 

1.Beat corporate giant SalesForce over a misuse of the term “social enterprise”

YEAH.

SalesForce does lots of things, one of their many services includes creating cloud datastorage for 

organisations. Came across SaleForce during internship and got a shock when they called themselves a 

SE. 

2. Played a key role in passing the Social Value Act. 

The act requires public authorities in England and Wales to look at how much ‘social value’ they can add to the community each time they award a contract for delivery of public services. For the first time authorities must look beyond the price of each individual contract and see the wider collective benefit of spending.

I think they're really doing some great things in UK's SE sector, and I believe as the SE sector continues to grow in Singapore, there will be more organisations such as Social Enterprise UK. Social Enterprise SG maybe?

 Some thoughts gleaned from the interview:

1. Many SEs are still reliant on grants.

2. Ultimately, business plans still count for securing fundings.

3.The social sector has lightyears more to push corporate giants out and properly deliver public services 4. The public needs to be convinced that social enterprises are equal and genuine alternatives to businesses.

5. Global connectivity will improve the public understanding and progression of the social enterprise sector.

References

http://www.pioneerspost.com/news/20130110/five-tough-questions-uk-social-enterprise-2013

http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/about