Social Saturday is a nationwide day of events and activities to celebrate the nation’s booming social enterprise sector.
Social enterprises are businesses that trade to meet a social or environmental mission. There are nearly 80,000 social enterprises in the UK, employing over a million people and contributing more than £24 billion to the economy.
Social Saturday is led by Social Enterprise UK, and supported by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Co-op.
“We’re delighted to be supporting Social Saturday – it’s a great way to let people know there’s a different way of doing business that meet the needs and expectations of consumers today.”
Steve Murrells, Co-op Group CEO
The campaign encourages consumers, businesses and public bodies to find out more about social enterprises and to buy from them.
Together social enterprises are changing people’s lives in a positive way and transforming local communities. GALE has operated as a social enterprise for more than 15 years. It is distinct from both the private and public sector. It offers a powerful ‘other’ way of doing business and at GALE we believe it is the preferred means of developing our local economy and delivering local services.
We are proud to be a part of Social Saturday and encourage you all to come along to the GALE Centre to find out more about the work we do.