Social Enterprise - briefing document

Social enterprises are organisations that provide goods and services as part of the social economy sector; this group constitutes a collection of organisations that exist between the traditionally private and public sectors and has a stronger relationship with the Community and Non-profit sector.
 
Social Enterprises are a growing presence within the so called "Third Sector" and are being strongly pushed by government through its public sector reform agenda.
 
For this reason Unite has put together the following briefing and links on the Social Enterprise model and their implications to Unite's work: