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A social entrepreneur, who is severely deaf, has set up a unique new scallop processing plant in Dumfries and Galloway to create jobs for the long term unemployed, support the local fishing industry and increase the availability of UK caught shellfish in local restaurants and shops.

‘Exchange’ event organisers announce social enterprise supply chain The Social Enterprise Exchange, which is taking place in Glasgow on 27 March, is working with more than 15 social enterprise suppliers.  The event’s organisers – Social Enterprise UK, Social Enterprise Scotland and CEIS Events – are aiming for 80% of the event’s supply chain to be [...]

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Social Enterprise But Were Afraid to Ask! Get your questions answered at the Social Enterprise Alliance’s 12th Annual Summit, October 30 to November 2, at the downtown Chicago Magnificent Mile Marriott… THE one stop place where you can get everything you always wanted to know about social enterprise.

Not-for-profit firms can borrow from £5,000 to £50,000 from Glasgow-based DSL‘s Social Enterprise Fund even if they have no security. As DSL is a social enterprise itself, it does not distribute profits. Instead it uses any money it makes from loans to help other social enterprises and small firms to create jobs and investment, especially [...]

A Hollywood movie is the inspiration behind a designer and furniture maker who has just set-up his own business with backing from the ethical lender DSL Business Finance.

We are pleased to announce the new Scottish Government funded programmes providing support to social entrepreneurs and Enterprising Third Sector Organisations across Scotland – Just Enterprise and the Enterprise Growth Fund.

A radical new £1.1 million social business, which is creating jobs for people with autism, has transformed the lives of its first ten recruits and won its first contract to provide software testing services to the IT sector.