Public relations for social enterprises

Here at Urban Media PR we have toyed with creating a public relations service aimed squarely at Social Enterprise - because these organisations are something we strongly believe in.

We are proud to be associated with one of the country's leading social enterprises in the shape of CASAC. They do fantastic work in combating crime in West Yorkshire. Indeed, they should be held up as a prime example of the good that Social Enterprises can do.

The story below is from Social Enterprise magazine and it resonates with me. I think the figure for such businesses is far higher than most people assume.

Study increases number of UK social enterprises to 232,000 from 62,000.

The UK could be home to 232,000 social enterprises and not the official figure of 62,000, new research shows.

A study by economics consultancy Delta Economics and market researchers IFF Research revealed that a fifth of 2,121 entrepreneurs interviewed run businesses that could be ‘hidden social enterprises'. These are classed as for-profit companies with a social, environmental or job creation purposes and reinvest their profits or surpluses to achieve this goal. Those asked have been running their business for more than two years, but fewer than ten have annual turnovers greater than £200,000.

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In essence, as Geof Cox comments on the site: 'you don't need to be structurally different from other businesses to be entirely ethical: to say MORE effectively 'this is the way EVERYONE should do business'.

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