Social Enterprise Europe
Social Enterprise Europe [1] is a company co-ordinated and managed by Cliff Southcombe, organised as a co-operative network of educators, consultants and social enterprise advocates in four continents. Company members, associates and Social Licence holders have been at the forefront of social enterprise development in their respective countries for more than 20 years.
The company has directors based in the UK, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy and Indonesia, and a secondary network of associate consultants and independent Social Licence holders who deliver programmes in Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Turkey, East Africa, Vietnam, Phillipines and China.
Social Enterprise Europe hosts the FairShares Association, and supports a FairShares Model[2] [3] of social enterprise development which gives stakeholders a fairer share of the wealth their interactions create.[4].
Current SEE board members have been involved in:
- Co-founding the UK’s first social enterprise support organisation, the Social Enterprise Partnership in 1994.[5]
- Co-founding the UK’s first social enterprise regional development agency, Social Enterprise London, in 1997.[6]
- Developing Social Licences to support knowledge sharing across Europe, Asia and Africa.
References
- ^ Social Enterprise Europe Website, www.socialenterpriseeurope.co.uk
- ^ Ridley-Duff, R. J. and Bull, M. (2013) The FairShares Model: a communitarian pluralist approach to constituting social enterprises, paper to 34th ISBE Conference, Cardiff, 12th-14th November
- ^ FairShares Model V2.0, www.fairshares-association.com
- ^ The Case for a FairShares Model of Enterprise, www.fairshares-association.com
- ^ Ridley-Duff, R. J. and Southcombe, C. (2012) 'The Social Enterprise Mark: a critical review of its conceptual dimensions', Social Enterprise Journal, 8(3): 176-200.
- ^ ibid.