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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