Social enterprises employ more than a million

By Emilie Filou, Third Sector Online, 10 July 2008

Almost 1.3 million people, or 3.4 per cent of the working population, are employed in social enterprise, according to a five-year survey of social entrepreneurship in the UK.

The research, carried out by Delta Economics , also found that women and people from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities are more likely to be social entrepreneurs than men or people from the white community. "Under-represented groups in enterprise, such as women and Bame communities, are more likely to...