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Certified Social Enterprise
About membership
Social Enterprise UK are the leading global authority on social enterprise and the biggest network of social enterprises in the UK. Working with our members we have actioned a number of positive and powerful changes, including:
- Running global campaigns to raise awareness of social enterprise around the world, including #WhoKnew on Social Enterprise Day
- Made government buy social by passing the Social Value Act, requiring public bodies to consider the wider social, environmental and economic impact of the services they commission.
- Challenged big business to buy more from social enterprises through our Buy Social Corporate Challenge.
- Made social investment more accessible to social enterprises, helping shape and steer tax relief, Big Society Capital, investment readiness and business support
- Enhanced the work of local communities championing social enterprise through our Social Enterprise Places Programme
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What are your requirements to be certified as a social enterprise?
Our expectations of social enterprises are as follows:
- Your business has a clear social or environmental mission that is set out in its governing documents.
- You are an independent business and earn more than half of your income through trading (or are working towards this)
- You are controlled or owned in the interests of your social mission
- You reinvest or give away at least half your profits or surpluses towards your social purpose
- You are transparent about how you operate and the impact that you have
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