The History of the SEC
SEC emerged from discussions across a group of social enterprises and their support networks during the year 2000. There was a real frustration that Government wasn't doing enough to support the growth of social enterprise in the UK and that individual social enterprises across the country were having to "reinvent the wheel" in their efforts to start up and grow.
In January 2001 Baroness Glenys Thornton convened a meeting at the House of Lords of potential members including the Big Issue, Furniture Resource Centre and the Co-operative Group, Social Enterprise London, The Development Trust Association, Social Firms UK, Co-operatives UK, Community Action Network, the new economics foundation and Natwest Bank. Later that year a charter for social enterprise was jointly launched at the conference 'Social Enterprise, Social Economy: Moving Forward' which called on social enterprises to join together and establish a national voice and on Government to develop a more coherent approach to this way of doing business.
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