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Want to promote your social enterprise more widely? But don’t have a BIG budget for marketing and promotion. Then, get an entry in the BIG Black Book, a new trade directory just for social enterprises.
What is the BIG Black Book?The BIG Black Book is a new online trade directory for social enterprises across Northern Ireland.
The BIG Black Book aims to promote opportunities for social enterprises to do more business – by selling to each other, selling to the public and private sectors, and selling to the general public.
The Directory can be located at www.bigblackbook.org. Entries in the Directory are free to social enterprises set up and trading in Northern Ireland.
Searches can be made on:
and by browsing the full list of entries.
Email Lynsey Cameron at l.cameron@workwest.co.uk. All entries can be managed by you – via a password and user name – which means you can update or add to your profile at any time.
A social enterprise is a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. We like to call them “more than profit” organisations.
The social objectives can be wide and diverse, as can the sector in which the business operates. Social enterprises can be run by companies, industrial and provident societies, community interest companies, unincorporated bodies and registered charities.
If you are set up to serve a social, environmental or ethical purpose, have a democratic decision making structure in your organisation, and have an explicit business model which allows you to trade, then you probably are a social enterprise.
If you are a privately owned company (even if you have a strong social ethos), or are a voluntary and community organisation with no trading activities then you are not likely to come under the Northern Ireland definition of a social enterprise.
Contact us if you are unsure, and we can advise you further.
Call us at Work West on 028 9061 0826 or e-mail: l.cameron@workwest.co.uk
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