About Upstarts

Upstarts is designed to encourage and promote social entrepreneurs. Especially those who pass on practical skills and social values to their employees, providing innovative and sustainable solution to social problems. Upstarts is a unique forum through which to discuss ideas, policies, and the impact of practical learning and social enterprise.

There are at least 55,000 social enterprises in the UK generating £27 billion a year. These dynamic enterprises with a social purpose invigorate the UK economy and challenge the traditional role of companies as profit-driven ventures. Social enterprises foster the development of innovative business practices including vocational training, enterprise structures, creative revenue solutions and co-operative ownership models.

As well as being visionaries and business leaders, social entrepreneurs are employers. They are educators and mentors who pass on practical skills and social values to their employees. The main beneficiaries of social enterprises are the socially excluded. Typically the long term unemployed, people with disabilities, the elderly, people on low incomes and children or young people.

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