Table 1.
Characteristics of the sampled social enterprises.
| Social enterprise | Respondent (sex) |
Brief description | Reach | Turnover (in GBP) (as at EOY, 2013) |
Employees (FTEs) (at EOY, 2013) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha | Alan (M) | Provides a range of personal services, such as prepared meal deliveries (‘meals on wheels’) and other services such as cleaning and ironing to elderly, sick and disabled people who, for reasons of disability or illness, cannot cope on their own. | Local | £134,000 | 3 |
| Bravo | Bill (M) | Former ‘healthy living centre’, provides a range of services, including a range of advice and advocacy services for local asylum seekers and refugees; a counselling service; credit union; ESOL classes; drop-in centre; education and cultural services provision. | Local | £211,815 | 3 |
| Charlie | Christine (F) | Supports the establishment and development of organisations, on a worldwide basis, which publish and supply street papers and magazines to help homeless and/or unemployed people to gain income. | International | £383,366 | 7 |
| Delta | Doreen (F) | Community centre providing a range of services and facilities for local people, particularly those who are unemployed, to enhance their education and employability skills. | Local | £221,575 | 4.5 |
| Echo | Edward (M) | Provides a range of care services for people with significant support needs, including people with severe mental and physical disabilities. | City | £510,000 | 9.5 |
| Foxtrot | Fiona (F) | Works with young people, particularly of school age at risk of exclusion, and trains them in circus skills. | National | £200,000 | 5 |
| Golf | Gail (F) | Supports offenders soon to be released from prison, or soon after release, through the arts (such as music, art, theatre and drama) to ease their transition to the outside world and help prevent re-offending. | National | £111,997 | 2 |
| Hotel | Harry (M) | Trains and employs people to collect and receive donations of old and scrap wood from all over the city, mainly for ‘up-cycling’ into useful products to sell. | City | £284,293 | 5.5 |
| India | Ian (M) | Provides training, work experience, guidance and support, personal development, education and social activities for young people and adults experiencing disability and/or social disadvantage through the provision of a range of services, including providing catering and café facilities. | National | £2,493,000 | 71 |
| Juliet | Jill (F) | Former ‘healthy living centre’ provides a wide range of projects and services aimed at supporting local people with poor mental and physical health; elderly people; isolated people; carers and their families; and local organisations who need help to expand. | Local | £391,152 | 7.5 |
| Kilo | Karen (F) | Provides common area cleaning and property repair and maintenance services to the local housing association and to other social landlords, allowing them to employ and train local unemployed young people, operate an extensive apprenticeship programme, and reinvest their profits into a range of activities aimed at improving the lives of people in the local community. | Local | £1,298,353 | 23 |
| Lima | Laurence (M) | Aims to develop a range of projects focused upon environmental protection of the local area, improvement of public open space and a range of environmental and regeneration projects, including local amenities. | Local | £33,557 | 1.5 |
| Mike | Martin (M) | Preservation of local historical, architectural and constructional heritage. Provides a range of services to the public, including the employment and training of people in a range of environmental projects, and a community café selling and utilising produce grown on the site. | Local | £469,097 | 11 |