Social Enterprise

Contract catering firm, Elior UK, has committed to fully fund five trainees – at a total cost of £15,000 – through a training and employment programme provided by social enetrprise, Change Please. As well as funding training, Elior UK will ...

Five university teams have won funding from Sodexo to tackle food insecurity. A Dragon’s Den-style competition involving 85 students from 26 universities throughout the UK was held last month by the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation in partnership with social enterprise and ...

A group of 30 major UK businesses have spent a landmark £250 million procuring services and products from social enterprises and helped create 2,700 jobs in an ongoing programme from Social Enterprise UK, new figures reveal. The Buy Social Corporate ...

CBRE’s Global Workplace Solutions business has entered into an exclusive agreement with Social Enterprise Republic of Ireland (SERI) to drive social enterprise participation in the corporate sector across Ireland. As of 1 September 2022, CBRE and SERI are now participating ...

Infrastructure services and engineering company, Amey, has partnered with social enterprise, Renaisi, to access and broker the skills of refugee professionals, who represent a largely untapped pool of talent that can bridge current skills gaps and increase diversity in organisations. ...

As a leading provider of facilities services to UK defence, Amey has teamed up with social enterprise organisation, e50k, to enhance the move-in experience for military families living across the north and central regions. In June 2021, the Amey Secure ...

Social Bite, the social enterprise that aims to end homelessness, has launched its very first coffee shop in London, in partnership with independent hospitality food service provider, BaxterStorey.  It will operate a rewarding ‘Pay-It-Forward’ system whereby customers who come in to ...

Social enterprise Corps Security has been awarded a three-year contract with leading insurance firm, Zurich, to deliver guarding services across its UK portfolio which includes premises in London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Swindon, Whiteley and Farnborough. The deal was secured in collaboration ...

Blog from Mark Rogers, Executive Director at Corps Security Ethical consumerism has become a big trend in recent years as consumers are becoming more concerned about where their money is going. And it’s not just individuals. Large corporations like PWC, ...

A new initiative led by Social Enterprise UK is encouraging businesses across Europe to ‘Buy Social’ to improve their environmental impact and support the post-pandemic recovery. A group of forward-thinking global corporations are using their collective purchasing power to open ...