Customers include:
 

• Employment agencies

• Training suppliers

• Care services

• Education providers

• Neighbourhood renewal agencies

• Charities

• Public sector agencies
  
   

Social Enterprises are businesses with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners.

Social enterprises tackle a wide range of social and environmental issues and operate in all parts of the economy. Using business solutions to achieve social aims, these enterprises have a distinct and valuable role to play in helping create a strong, sustainable and socially inclusive economy.

Active8Consulting has been at the forefront in helping social enterprises by:

• Supporting organisations that have been dependent on public funding to adopt a more commercial and business like approach to their activities;

• Helping not-for-profit businesses to drive up productivity and competitiveness;

• Delivering ideas workshops to identify trading opportunities;

• Enabling individuals and communities to work towards regenerating their local neighbourhoods;

• Showing new ways to deliver public services;

• Developing business plans that help social enterprises to sustain their activities.

Our customers benefit from culturally sensitive and cost-effective support tailored to their needs. We are committed to high standards of social responsibility in supporting our social enterprise customers in delivering a wide range of local services.