Guidance
Social Enterprise Boost Fund: Local areas of delivery
Information about the Social Enterprise Boost Fund and local areas of delivery.
Applies to England
Local areas of delivery
The Social Enterprise Boost Fund will be delivered in:
- County Durham
- Sandwell
- South Tyneside
- Sunderland
- Thanet
- Wolverhampton
Capacity-building support and grants of up to £10,000 will be made available to start-up social enterprises or entrepreneurs who have been registered for less than 5 years.
For more information, please contact the Local Delivery Partner for your area:
- for County Durham, please contact North East BIC
- for Sandwell and Wolverhampton, please contact iSE
- for South Tyneside and Sunderland, please contact First Port for Social Entrepreneurs
- for Thanet, please contact Social Enterprise Kent
Objectives
The objectives of the SEBF are, by March 2025, to:
- grow the social enterprise sector in targeted areas, by supporting the creation of new social enterprises and boosting early stage organisations
- enable targeted high-deprivation local authorities and the local voluntary and community sector in these places to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage social enterprise growth
- build and disseminate evidence on:
- scalable and sustainable place-based interventions that work in growing the social enterprise sector in disadvantaged areas
- the extent to which and how social enterprises support communities and economies in disadvantaged areas
Published 30 March 2023