SES Enterprise Services

SES's expertise on Business and Social Enterprise could be just what your professional organisation needs for sustainability, further trading and additional benefits to your members, clients and community.

Introduction

SES are making a vital contribution to the Governments agenda on economic recovery and the Big Society with efforts that stimulate enterprise through out the North East. SES specialises in nurturing enterprise and has been supporting the start-up and growth of business and social enterprise for some 28 years. We are a Social Enterprise Company based in the North East of England with an excellent track record in servicing small businesses and supporting social enterprise and many hundreds of people have been helped by SES to start and grow their own small business.

In the UK we have a growing number of social entrepreneurs. This is a genuine growth sector with 1.7 million people involved in social ventures at any one time, the highest number in western Europe. We have established businesses trading in socially beneficial goods and services to generate profits and improve lives. There are 62,000 such social enterprises in the UK with a combined turnover of £24 billion. In addition, since the economic downturn began 56 percent of social enterprises have seen an increased turnover when only 28 percent of traditional SME's found an increase.

SES

SES has a set of values, skills, products and services that are more relevant than ever to the emerging policy drivers giving SES a greater potential to seize the new opportunities available to UK business enterprises.

SES fosters all kinds of enterprise, both traditional small business start up and social enterprises our recent achievements include the creation of 249 new traditional businesses with a collective turnover of £7.3 million as well as the creation of 22 new social enterprises.

Partnerships and Collaboration

SES services, activities and success has been delivered to the North East community in no small part by working with a partnership of key organisations, partnerships and individuals who share our values and a belief that co-operation, self help and entrepreneurship are powerful creative forces for change in our region.

SES welcomes partnering and working collaboratively with agencies and organisations in furtherance of any joint goals. If you feel your organisation would be interested in working with SES please do contact us.