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How social enterprises can transform public service delivery How can we create more effective, responsive, and sustainable people-focussed public services? With demand and pressure escalating across the public sector, there’s an urgent need to scale up examples of innovation and impact in public service delivery. We must act now to amplify what is already working […]

Building on the success of E3M Imagine 2024, this one-day, interactive event brought together the experience of innovative social enterprise leaders, bold commissioners responsible for public services, and funders and social investors to focus on real issues and discuss how to improve outcomes and meet challenges in the future.

2024 is nearly over, so here’s a round-up of our work to support social enterprise in public services this year. Our Social Enterprise Leaders’ Club programme started in January with the annual, 24-hour Away Day. Held in Manchester at The Castlefield Hotel, itself a social enterprise, our event effectively invested directly in the local community, […]

Barcelona-based Suara Cooperativa serves more than 40,000 people, providing caring services with a mission of social transformation. An employee-led co-operative, people, innovation and partnership are at the heart of its approach. What can those delivering, commissioning and investing in public services in the UK learn from Suara? What can Suara learn from the UK’s mature […]

This one-day, interactive event looked at how to grow social enterprise and co-operative models for public services, to improve outcomes and meet challenges for the future. In the context of some public services not meeting people’s needs, poor outcomes for some of those most in need of support, and ever-increasing financial pressures, the event explored […]

Nicole Reed, Senior Associate Solicitor at Stone King, writes about her experience of the E3M learning exchange with Suara Cooperativa.

This one-day seminar explored how social enterprises can work in partnership to achieve impact and transform lives in local communities. This includes social enterprises working with the public and private sectors, with social investors, and with other social enterprises and charities. Increasingly, people are using the language of partnership, social value, collaboration and impact, but […]

After two years of exclusively online activity, 2022 was the year to resume a more normal programme of events for members of our Social Enterprise Leaders’ and Bold Commissioners’ Clubs, as well as our wider community. Covid’s shadow still loomed large at the start of the year and our first two events were conducted via […]

Our new publication explores E3M’s, our members’ and partners’ impacts over the past decade and sets an ambitious vision for the next. Social enterprises can deliver public services in a way which improves people’s lives, brings huge benefits to local communities, and boosts value for public authorities. We founded E3M in 2012 because we knew […]

To book please click here (link generates an email) Join us for this special event in central London aimed at: Commissioners and decision makers in local public authorities Social Enterprise leaders Funders and investors Set against the context of the consequences of the Covid pandemic and the unprecedented economic and social challenges faced by communities […]