04 July 2009

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The Social Enterprise Network Suffolk (SENS) is the trade association for social enterprises in Suffolk - with a strong focus on social enterprises which are operationally based, exclusively or predominantly, in Suffolk.

The Social Enterprise Network Suffolk (SENS) is a member of    Infrastructure Network Suffolk (INS)- a group of Third Sector infrastructure organisations that together are working on developing and implementing the infrastructure local plan in Suffolk and the Change Up agenda. These groups provide support and information services to frontline Third Sector enterprises. SENS is also part of the Social Enterprise East of England regional network

The Social Enterprise Network Suffolk (SENS) is both amembership organisation and a strategy and policy organisation. SENS's primary aim is to embed social enterprise firmly into the economic framework of Suffolk, and to show measurable and significant social and economic impact. At SENS our vision is a prosperous and vibrant social enterprise sector in Suffolk.

SENS is the county mouthpiece for the social enterprise movement linking national, regional and local social enterprise strategies and interpreting and promoting these appropriately to practitioners in the county. SENS also advises and influences other local policy makers/stakeholders on policy development.

SENS exists to build and strengthen the platform for a thriving social enterprise movement to ensure the growth and increase of the diversity, prosperity and sustainability of the social enterprise sector and partners in Suffolk. SENS aims to be the primary source of knowledge & information about social enterprise in Suffolk.

“Actions by individuals, that even the words voluntarism and voluntary action no longer fully capture, are happening daily in our communities. There are 50,000 social enterprises with a combined turnover of £27 billions. We have to reach out and connect with this new energy and enterprise and it is urgent that we do so because of the profound new challenges that I believe this country faces now and for the future cannot be solved, cannot be met by top-down solutions simply by saying, as people often did in the past, that the man in Whitehall knows best.”

The Prime Minister 3 September, 2007.

 

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