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Social Enterprise Awards 2018

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  • Deadline now extended to Sunday, 15th July, 2018…

Applications are now open for the 2018 UK Social Enterprise Awards. 

”The Awards recognise organisations for their business excellence and contribution to society, as well as the achievements of people working at the heart of the sector.

All social enterprises can apply, and there are specific categories that investors, corporates, public sector bodies and charities may also apply for”.

Source: https://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/uk-social-enterprise-awards-2018

There will be an Awards ceremony to celebrate the winners on Wednesday 28th of November, 2018.  This year there are fourteen categories available for organisations to apply for.

Nominations close on Friday 6th July, 2018. (Now extended…)

  You can apply here.

 

The categories are…

Category 1 – UK Social Enterprise

Category 2 – One to Watch

Category 3 – Prove It: Social Impact

Category 4 – ‘Buy Social’ – Market Builder

Category 5 – Social Investment Deal of the Year

Category 6 – Health & Social Care Enterprise

Category 7 – Consumer Facing Enterprise

Category 8 – Education, Training & Jobs Social Enterprise

Category 9 – Environmental Social Enterprise

Category 10 – Tech for Good: Technology Social Enterprise

Category 11 – Women in Social Enterprise

Category 12 – International Impact

Category 13 – Transformative Community Business

Category 14 – Employee Engagement

You can see the full application process and qualifications needed to apply on the pages of Social Enterprise UK here.

If you do apply, good luck!

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The Charity Governance Awards 2017 winners

The Charity Governance Awards nomination process was featured on our pages at the beginning of the year.

The winners are now available and a great cluster of charities , with some amazing stories to share, are featured on the web pages of the 2017 awards.

The winners include:

Board Diversity and Inclusivity
WinnerVoluntary Arts

Embracing Digital
WinnerAsthma UK

Embracing Opportunity and Harnessing Risk
WinnerPreston Road Women’s Centre

Improving Impact (up to 3 paid staff)
WinnerSt. Peter’s Community Wellbeing Projects

Improving Impact (4 – 25 paid staff)
WinnerPrisoners’ Education Trust

Improving Impact ( 26+ paid staff)
WinnerStep by Step

Managing Turnaround
WinnerOff the Record

You can see a series of short films about each winner here.
https://www.charitygovernanceawards.co.uk/2017-winners-videos/

You can see a list of all the charities short-listed in 2017 here.
https://www.charitygovernanceawards.co.uk/2017-short-list/

Congratulations to everyone who took part and contributed to the work. Looking forward to another challenge in 2018.

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Social Enterprise Awards 2016

socialenterpriseawardsLogoApplications are now open for the range of awards and celebrations that make up the Socila Enterprise Awards 2016.

You can view the criteria and award categories on the pages of socialenterprise.org.uk here.

You can see the application process in detail on this page.

The closing date for the application process is Friday the 8th July, 2016. To qualify your organisation has to have or have been…

”A social enterprise that has been operating for more than 2 years and can evidence the criteria below but that has also demonstrated and promoted social enterprise beyond the sector.

Criteria:

  • Excellent vision and strategic direction
  • Clear leadership and management of the organisation
  • A high degree of customer satisfaction
  • A clearly evidenced social, environmental and community impact
  • Show sustainability in terms of profit and growth
  • Good brand awareness and communication outputs
  • Evidence of creativity and innovation”
Source: socialenterprise.org.uk  (Accessed 17.06.2016)

If you do enter, the very best of luck.

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