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 regional social enterprises network
in the south east of England
The
Social Enterprise Network Suffolk
(SENS) is both a
membership 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.
 18
May 2010
The
new government has announced that Nick Hurd will be the Minister
for Civil Society, in the Cabinet Office, with responsibility
for charities, social enterprises and voluntary organisations.
He and department boss Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet
Office, stated that government policy would focus on three fundamental
issues:
1)
Making it easier to run a charity, social enterprise or voluntary
organisation.
2)
Getting more resources into the sector: strengthening its independence
and resilience.
3)
Making it easier for sector organisations to work with the state.
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