Welcome to Social Enterprise Norfolk; a new website for Social Enterprises

As the new name of the Norfolk Social Enterprise Network, Social Enterprise Norfolk aims to celebrate  support and grow the Social Enterprise movement in one of the largest yet most rural counties of England. There are similar grass-root networks developing all over the UK ; to see what’s happening in another area of the East of England take a look at the Bedfordshire social enterprise network or for a national picture visit the Social Enterprise Coaltion

“Social Enterprise” explained….

Social Enterprises are businesses that use surpluses to directly support their communities rather than give profits to share holders. There are over 150 such businesses in Norfolk and 62,000 across the UK.  A well known social enterprise is Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen;  a restaurant which provides training and work experience for young people disadvantaged in the labour market. For more details download his brochure

Events and Funding

We are pleased to be working with the CCORRN Macro Coaching programme  to enable social enterprises in Norfolk to have peer to peer support to  help them  grow in areas such as developing marketing strategies, writing funding bids and much more. There is usually a £45 fee for each 3 hour session of 1-1 support, but if you are attending our next networking event you can book up to 2 session for FREE.  For regular up to date funding news and news from social enterprises in Norfolk please sign up to our free monthly newsletter using the box on the right .