About Social Enterprise Exchange

Social Enterprise Exchange supports social enterprise in South Yorkshire and beyond. Our goal is to contribute to broad social and environmental impact through social enterprise start-up and development.

Social Enterprise Exchange has been formed by a consortium of community-based partners with the purpose of offering a broad range of social enterprise support and to assure coverage throughout South Yorkshire and beyond.

We provide free advice, workshops and co-working facilities for social enterprise start-ups. We offer specialist consultancy to established and growing social enterprises, including business modeling, strategic planning, fundraising support, legal structurs and governance, communications and social impact. We organise an annual peer networking conference to celebrate social enterprise in South Yorkshire and the North of England. We undertake policy research and analysis, and we engage in practical advocacy with public decision-makers, regionally and nationally.

Over the course of nine years of delivery we have engaged with over 2000 social entrepreneurs and social enterprises, supported over 100 social enterprise start-ups and contributed to the development of over 300 existing social enterprises.

Social Enterprise Exchange is co-ordinated by Community Made Solutions, a Sheffield-based social enterprise formed in 2004, with extensive experience of social, creative and media enterprise development in the UK and internationally. It draws on a network of partners and associates to deliver support at all stages of social enterprise development.