Chief Executive
Allison Ogden-Newton is the Chief Executive of Social Enterprise London, the capital’s leading agency supporting and promoting social enterprise.
Allison has successfully promoted social enterprise to a wide spectrum of London’s agencies and decision makers, raising awareness and creating a community of support through effective networking and developing strong strategic partnerships. Whilst at SEL, Allison has worked to increase the understanding and implementation for social enterprise, particularly in the delivery of public services, social accounting, and business support.
Prior to SEL, Allison was the CEO at Women’s Education in Building (WEB), which was a voluntary organisation set up to support women by providing education and training in the construction trades. It was while at WEB that Allison became interested in social enterprise and set up Building Etc, a project that offered struggling entrepreneurs incubator office space, access to start-up finance and business mentoring.
Allison is Chair of the Transition Institute, Deputy Chair of ACEVO, and board member of The National Migraine Centre and the Council of Social Enterprise UK.