Who we are
Social Enterprise East Midlands (SEEM) is a business development organisation offering training, support and development services to the third sector. As a social enterprise ourselves, we guide and advise socially minded businesses and individuals through facilitating networking opportunities, exchanging knowledge and working collaboratively with businesses that are trading to make a difference to people and planet.
We have been working for over 9 years with social entrepreneurs to provide support services to voluntary and community organisations. SEEM’s aim is to support community led businesses to become more resilient and agile so they can achieve sustainable growth by responding to new opportunities.
SEEM has been developed by a partnership of organisations from the community, voluntary, enterprise, government and regional development sectors of the East Midlands, all of which are represented on our Board of Directors.
Our aims are:
- to have a marked impact on the number of sustainable community organisations in the East Midlands enabling them to develop and grow
- to realise the social enterprise goal of contributing to economic renewal and regeneration through a more socially conscious way of doing business
- to enable social enterprises to contribute to influencing and shaping public policy
- to make information, resources and support as accessible as possible to all social enterprise businesses in the East Midlands through consultancy, training and networking events
- to develop new markets and business opportunities for social enterprises in the region
- to share understanding of social enterprise structures and good practise
- to be the first and natural choice for providing national, regional and local news on social enterprise