Hidden Social Enterprises Research launched

Delta Economics and IFF Research

Goodenough College,
Mecklenburgh Square
London WC1N 2AB

 Delta Economics and IFF Research are proud to announce the launch of their first report looking at the social enterprise sector in the UK.  The research isolates the companies within a sample of 2,120 for-profit, growth-oriented entrepreneurs who conform to a broad and a narrow definition of social enterprise.  They are the "Hidden Social Enterprises" in the UK who create economic, social and environmental value simultaneously.  The report compares them with "mainstream" enterprises in terms of their economic and social/environmental performance, their motivations and the challenges they face.

 Speakers included Rebecca Harding (Managing Director, Delta Economics), Steve Lomax (Director, IFF Research), Vicky Pryce (Joint Head of UK Government Economic Services and Chief Economic Adviser, BIS), Renate Hornung-Draus (Managing Director, German Employers' Federation), John Elkington (Founder, Volans), Andrea Coleman, Founder, Riders for Health, Duncan Grossart (Founder and former CEO of Image Source), Jonathan Jenkins (Director of Ventures, UnLtd), Richard Litchfield (Managing Director, Eastside Consulting), Representative from NESTA, (TBC), and Allison Ogden-Newton (TBC Social Enterprise London)

 Reports on the launch and the research report can be found in The Financial Times at: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/10bc0742-2de0-11df-a971-00144feabdc0.html

 A full report of the event and a discussion of its implications can be found on the World Entrepreneur Society website at:http://www.wessociety.com/