Voluntary Community and Social Enterprises (VCSE)

Social enterprises make a profit but reinvest or donate profits to target social problems. Community enterprises are community owned, led and controlled and use their profits to tackle environmental and social problems in their area so yes, they are social enterprises too.

The widely accepted definition of a social enterprise is:

“businesses with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximize profit for shareholders and owners”