Social Entrepreneurship Monitor United Kingdom 2006 by Rebecca Harding

 

This report focuses on the social entrepreneurs who may grow the social enterprises of the future. It is the second Social Entrepreneurship Monitor report published by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK1 project. Like the first report, it uses data from a survey of 27,296 18-64 year olds randomly stratified by UK region2. It measures levels and types of early stage community or socially oriented entrepreneurial activity in the UK, with a view to informing policy about this important feeder group to the overall social enterprise agenda.

 

 

 

• Social entrepreneurship is an important phenomenon across the UK, at some 3.2 % of the working age population or nearly 1.2 million adults.

 

•Regional differences between levels of SEA are not significant and the gap between the highest rate in London (4.7%) and the lowest in the East Midlands (2.6%) is less than the TEA (Total Entrepreneurial Activity) gap between London (8.4%) and the North East (3.9%)

 

• Rural locations are more socially entrepreneurial than urban region.

 

• Although they do not have the highest levels of SEA, the most deprived wards in the UK do have higher levels of baby and established social enterprise managers.