Starting a social enterpriseSocial enterprises are businesses, but ones that only trade in order to pursue a social aim. The government definition is “… a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners.” This means that although they do make money, they aren’t set up just to make money and any profits are used to make them better. Social Enterprises are quite new and have been a good format for some groups of disabled people as employment and training issues can be central to the business. The Social Enterprise Coalition also have a great deal of useful information about social enterprises. If you follow this link you will be taken out of the artist’s resource site and to the Social Enterprise Coalition site and a page about starting up (www.socialenterprise.org.uk/Page.aspx?SP=1966). There is also Social Enterprise London – an organization linking all the social enterprises in London. They have a series of free factsheets and cheap publications to help new organisations form. If you follow this link you will be taken out of the artist’s resource site and to the Social Enterprise London site (www.sel.org.uk) 
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