Welcome to Social Enterprise Link

A unique partnership between Business Link West Yorkshire and the Social Enterprise Support Centre to deliver tailored support to social enterprises.

Services & Support

A social enterprise is, first and foremost, a business. It is involved in some form of trading activity whether it be the sale of products or services, or delivering a contract. The difference is that it will have been set up primarily to meet a social objective, not to make money for it's owner.

Yorkshire Forward has now approved a further £5.7m in social enterprise support until 2008. This will be delivered by Business Link and its concessions in partnership with the Social Enterprise Support Centre (SESC).

Our aim is to support:

• Social enterprises that are already in business
• New start-up social enterprises
• Existing social organisations who wish to start selling products or services in addition to receiving grants

The West Yorkshire Social Enterprise Link will provide:

• A team of social enterprise advisers for each district delivering tailored business support
• Procurement support via a specialist adviser
• Business development grants
• Learning grants
• Support for specialist clusters
• Social reporting
• Specialist support for social enterprises from the BME sector