Suppliers

• The Social Enterprise Mark will help you get more business
• Customers will recognise the 'extra' your values-driven business model offers
• Maximise the benefits offered by the growing trend of ethical consumerism
• Grow your working and collaboration

One third of all people questioned said that they were willing to pay a 5-10% premium for ethical products. 56% of those questioned believed that companies should actively promote their ethical credentials.

How will the Social Enterprise Mark help me?

The Social Enterprise Mark will help customers identify and choose to buy from social enterprises. Customers will understand the added social or environmental benefit your business provides. The Mark will help you keep your existing customers and get new ones as more people choose to buy ‘ethically'.

You will benefit from Boardroom meetings that provide peer learning, networking and collaboration opportunities. Boardroom meetings will encourage new strategic alliances in the sector and provide innovative support around leadership and quality.

The Social Enterprise Mark is the only one of its kind. It is managed by RISE. The Mark cannot be replicated as it is protected by a design right, registered with the Intellectual Property Office.

If you can answer yes to these questions, apply to use the Mark:

• Are you an independent social enterprise based, or operating in, the South West of England?
• Do you earn at least 50% of your income from trading (as distinct from grants and donations)?
• Have you been trading for more than one year?
• Do you have a Company, Industrial and Provident Society number or similar?
• Are your profits distributed for socially beneficial purposes?
• Have you externally validated evidence that you are achieving your social objectives?

If you are an emerging social enterprise or a grant funded organisation increasing your traded income in South West England - contact Social Enterprise Link to develop your business.