At the launch event of South Yorkshire Social Economy Forum on 3 July 2025, Alice Rubbra, Assistant Director at South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, presented an outline for consultation on their thinking to date towards the development of the Local Growth Plan for South Yorkshire. Working with SYMCA, Social...
Social Enterprise Exchange 2024
The Social Enterprise Exchange 2024 conference takes place in Sheffield, 21 November 2024, celebrating International Social Enterprise Day and promoting new collaborations to build the social economy. The need for transformational change has never been more apparent – on climate, jobs, the cost of living, health and social...
Co-working at Sheffield Live – Open Evening
In partnership with Sheffield Live!, we are opening a new co-working space for start-up and early-stage social, creative and environmental enterprises. Conveniently located in the Cultural Industries Quarter, the offer includes flexible working and meeting space, roof terrace, WiFi and data storage, podcast booth and creative production workstations, 24/7...
Social Enterprise Exchange 2024 – Get Involved
International Social Enterprise Day will take place this year on 21 November. We will be hosting, in Sheffield, our ninth annual Social Enterprise Day conference, celebrating social enterprise in South Yorkshire and the North of England. We’d like you to get invoved. We are inviting interest in contributing, and...
Accelerate workshops for start-ups
Social Enterprise Exchange invites you to join our latest series of online workshop sessions to support your start-up social enterprise or community project. Working with others, this workshop series will enable you to develop your concept, build a business case, plan your finances, get organised, and communicate with partners...
South Yorkshire Mayor urged to champion social economy
Over 50 social enterprise leaders have come together in calling on the Mayor of South Yorkshire to formulate an ambitious strategy and framework for growth of the region’s social economy. In an Open Letter, launched on International Social Enterprise Day, social enterprises, social entrepreneurs and sector stakeholders called for...
Open Letter to the Mayor of South Yorkshire: Strategy for the Social Economy
Over 100 social enterprise leaders have come together in an open letter to the South Yorkshire Mayor published on International Social Enterprise Day 2023. We are calling for a regional strategy and framework for action to grow the social economy in South Yorkshire and to support the work of...
Motion Exercise launch digital wellbeing platform
Sheffield based social enterprise, Motion Exercise CIC, has launched a new digital platform for activity coordinators working with care home residents. With the support of Sheffield City Trust the company has launched Motion Wellbeing designed to enhance physical and mental wellbeing through exercise. Sheffield Live! reporter Baillor Jalloh spoke...
Community hub seeks helping hands
An enterprising Rotherham mum is using her entrepreneurial skills honed as a personal fitness trainer and aerobics instructor to help strengthen a healthy sense of community. Last year, Jodie Goodall “swooped in” to take over the lease of a long vacant community centre in the Brecks area of Rotherham...
Digital platform delivers wellbeing activities in care homes
Motion, a Sheffield social enterprise on a mission to create moments that move people, is working with activity coordinators in local care homes to break down the barriers and address challenges around delivering meaningful wellbeing activities for residents. A revolutionary digital platform hosts a range of activities on demand...