‘Social Enterprise Empowers Local Communities and Solves Many Problems for Governments.’

1433 Words6 Pages
‘Social enterprise empowers local communities and solves many problems for governments.’ Social enterprises can be seen in a similar light to any other revenue-generating business even though they differ in a huge way. Unlike the average business, social enterprises are established with two goals in mind. The first being that the enterprise should achieve social, cultural, community, economic or environmental outcomes. The second being to earn revenue. Social enterprise empowers local communities in many different ways. Social enterprise provides things such as employment, spin-off benefits such as local sourcing as well as a social purpose. These enterprises benefits the government greatly as they tackle and address the same social issues that the government are constantly facing. An excellent example of a social enterprise that benefited the government and community is the Ballykeefe Quarry in County Kilkenny, Ireland. In regards to the benefits of social enterprise, I will address the relative strengths and weaknesses of the public sector, private sector and social enterprise’s delivery of social services in Ireland in the coming essay. Ever since the economic downfall in 2007, Ireland has suffered dramatic job loss and struggled with the growing unemployment rates. The economic climate is improving at the moment, meaning opportunities for the labour force are now opening up. Despite years of job loss and more and more people signing onto benefit, the public sector has kept many of the labour force ready for work. This has been done through organisations such as the Further Education and Training Authority (Solas) and the Institute of Public Administration (IPA). Solas is responsible for funding, planning and co-ordinating training and further education programmes. An example of a training course Solas provides is office administration. There are

More about ‘Social Enterprise Empowers Local Communities and Solves Many Problems for Governments.’

Open Document