1. What is social enterprise?
Social enterprise offers a
new way to do business
that is animated by a social
purpose.

2. How do we make the world a better
place?
Volunteer Change the
law
Give me one
example of
each
Invent a
great
product

3. How do we make the world a better
place?
Change the
Volunteer Civil Society Public Sector law
Private Sector
Invent a
great
product

4. Social Enterprise sits in the middle
Source: Leadbeater, C. (1997), The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur, London: Demos, p. 10

5. Seanor, P., Bull, M. & Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2007) "Contradictions in Social Enterprise: Do they draw in straight lines or circles?"
paper to 30th ISBE Conference, Glasgow, 7-9th November, Drawings 8 and 10

7. Three aspects
• Social Innovation
– ideas to change the way society works
• Social Entrepreneurship
– the processes of getting the idea into a ‘business’
format
• Social Enterprise
– the venture that emerges from the innovation

8. How do we know its a social
enterprise?
• Lots of different company formats
• Lots of government spending cuts
• Lots more contracts from governments to
deliver social & health services
• How do we know the world has got better?
• Who is involved in making decisions?

9. The University Social Entrepreneurship
Award
• Understanding social entrepreneurship
• Understanding me
• Understanding society, communities and
social problems
• Solving problems through innovation
• Venture planning
• Starting and sustaining the venture
• Promoting the venture

11. Balloon Kenya
• invested in 13 new businesses this time ranging
from fish farming to egg selling to wooden crates
to babycare.
• - 16 Enterprise Fellows brought to Kenya from 7
different nationalities ranging from Israel to India
to Germany
• 352 Kenya youth mentored
• 816 hours of training delivered
• 20 businesses funded
• £4860 invested

13. “how does my degree subject
‘change the world’?”