🏙️ Why Edinburgh Has a Strong Sector
The Edinburgh social enterprise sector is thriving with businesses working across all sectors for the betterment of their community or for a cause important to them.
From live music venues to coworking spaces, cafes in NHS Hospitals to Architectural consultation firms. We have social enterprises ranging from a sole trader fulfilling all roles to huge organisations with hundreds of employees.
📖 Directory of Members
Find a social enterprise near you or look for a particular service or product that you require now in our social enterprise directory.
Catering, venue hire, coworking, investment, advice, training, consultants, gifts, care and support services, child care, cafes, videography, recycling and much more.
📅 Events
Find the latest social enterprise events and training opportunities here.
From boxing classes to free business training, networking events to fix my own bike sessions, arts and crafts classes to support groups for new parents, social enterprise offers it all.
🤝 Support Available
ESEN is free to join and offers a range of support for newly created organisations in their first year to longstanding social enterprise pillars of the Edinburgh Community.
We offer support including:
🙌 Join ESEN
Interested in joining the network?
Sign up to become an ESEN member and benefit from advice, promotion, networking events and more.
If you’re a non social enterprise but want to support your local community and have a social ethos, find out more here about signing up as a non social enterprise member.
⭐ Success Stories
We love to show off the incredible things our members do as social enterprises in Edinburgh. Supporting their local communities, building up the people within them and selling the best goods and services for the good of the general public.
In our video interview series we sat down with 30 social entrepreneurs to find out about them, what they do and why they do it.
We run a number of programmes year round for social enterprises to engage with the public and private sectors, alongside educational institutions and students.
