About SEL
Founded in 1998, Social Enterprise London is an agent for change, run by social enterprises, for social enterprises. It works to unite, inspire and lead London’s social enterprise movement.
- It unites through the London Social Enterprise Network, the largest social enterprise network of its kind in the UK.
- It inspires through a dynamic, multi-layered programme of business support, policy and research, training and consultancy.
- And it leads by demonstrating to buyers, policy makers, media and the general public that social enterprise is the future of business.
SEL has been responsible for many of the most significant developments in the social enterprise movement, including:
- Being the first social enterprise support agency established in the UK.
- Producing the Social Enterprise Journal, the only academic journal solely devoted to social enterprise in the UK.
- Developing and delivering Understanding Social Enterprise, recognised as one of the most innovative and comprehensive introductory courses to social enterprise in the world.
- Running the London Social Enterprise Network, the largest network of its kind in the UK.
- Managing the launch of the Community Interest Company, the first new business legal structure to launch in the UK for more than 100 years.
Working in partnership with Business Link in London, London Councils, the London Development Agency, the Government Office for London, the Department of Health, the Office of the Third Sector and the Mayor of London, SEL works to capitalise on its past successes and to create many more.
At SEL we know that London’s future prosperity has social enterprise at its heart, if you share that vision then get involved.
SEL Annual Review 2008 (4259 kb)
SEL is part of a UK wide support infrastructure for social enterprise. Click here to see a map of our counterpart organisations across the rest of England.
On a national level the interests of the social enterprise movement are represented to the UK Parliament by the Social Enterprise Coalition, and to the Scottish Parliament by the Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition.