Moving Forward

SEC is now poised to move forward to a new phase of development in its leadership role for the UK social enterprise movement. Over the next year SEC will focus on working with its members to define the next big ideas for social enterprise and to raise the profile of social enterprise as a mainstream way of doing business.

The Coalition will continue to build on its own enterprise activity, building on the high profile Voice conference (due to take place in Liverpool in February 08) and the Enterprising Solutions Award and is currently developing a range of new member services.

Significant additional resources have been secured from the Government's Office of the Third Sector under its strategic partners programme to boost SEC's capacity to work on policy, and research team has been created to shape a national research programme on social enterprise and to undertake regular state of national survey on social enterprise. New OTS resources will also facilitate work on social enterprise with Black and Minority Ethnic Communities to work to raise the profile of social enterprise. In addition SEC has recently won a contract to run the Social Enterprise Ambassador's Programme. This is high profile three year communications project to encourage people to consider social enterprise as a career option.

On the appointment of the new Chair work will begin on a new strategic plan, a review of SEC's Governance and will take the steps to move social enterprise to a new level of success.