“Acceptance Bakery” Social Cooperative
The „Acceptance Bakery” Social Cooperative is a social enterprise producing home-made sweets and cakes from natural ingredients. Through the bakery, they create valuable work opportunities for local women in the segregated settlement of Monor, Hungary. They also contribute to increased cooperation and understanding between citizens of the segregated slum and the residents of the rest of the town.
You can read more about the Social Cooperative (here) and the community work of the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta in the Monor settlement (here).
“AdniJóga” - Giving Yoga Foundation
Giving Yoga is a social enterprise with the aim to provide - through its cross subsidy model- sustainable access to yoga and mindfulness for vulnerable people in difficult life situations, who would otherwise not be able to experience calmness through movement and breath.
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Apricot Centre
Based in Devon, the Apricot Centre is a social enterprise that aims to run a sustainable, diverse farm and wellbeing service. It recognises that there is a fundamental link between the wellbeing of the soil, food and habitat, and the mental and physical health of the people in and around the farm.
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Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF)
The Badur Foundation is a member of ACF, the membership body for UK foundations and grant-making charities. Driven by a belief that foundations are a vital source for social good, ACF’s mission is to support foundations to be ambitious and effective in the way that they use their resources. ACF have over 370 members, collectively holding assets of around £50bn and giving over £2.5bn annually.
Association of Roma Minority Representatives and Spokespeople of Nógrád County
Founded in 1996, the mission of the Association of Roma Minority Representatives and Spokespeople of Nógrád County is to reduce child poverty through providing assistance to families in need. Their activities target both children and their parents. They offer learning support and leisure time activities to children and organise training, employment opportunities and community events for adults. The Association has a regional focus and is active throughout Northern Hungary.
Please click here to read more about the Association.
Big River Bakery
Based in Shieldfield, Newcastle, Big River Bakery is a social enterprise specialising in handmade breads and baked goods, made with locally sourced ingredients. It runs baking and barista themed employability programmes for local people furthest from the job market, whilst also providing employment for people with disabilities.
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Buddhist Heritage Project
The Buddhist Heritage Project was founded in 2006 to initiate, organise and survey activities in the field of culture, conservation, education and research, and to assist Buddhist life in the monasteries. Since its inception, it has brought together groups of concerned and committed people and organisations through collaborations with important institutions of research, foreign governments and charitable foundations.
Buddhist Heritage Project is an association established by the Buddhist Sangha (community) of Luang Prabang and conducts activities entirely for charitable purposes on a not for profit basis.
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Csodamühely Association (Wonderworkshop Association)
The Afterschool programme in Csobánka was initiated by local volunteers and disadvantaged Roma parents in 2012, in order to support disadvantaged students in their studies. Csodaműhely Association was established in 2015 by volunteers of the Csepp Afterschool programme and by the parents of the students. The Association was founded to promote the work of the Afterschool and to broaden its activities. From the very beginning, keeping good relationships with the families, local social-welfare institutions and surrounding schools has been a fundamental part of their work. To increase engagement with these groups, the Association organises: a mothers’ club for disadvantaged mothers with small children, training/workshops for volunteers and most recently they formed a Civil Network together with social workers, schools and local civil actors to support and enhance integrated education in the surrounding schools.
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Devon Environment Foundation (DEF)
DEF aims to support grassroots projects that regenerate nature in Devon, especially those that can be replicated and scaled across the county. A Steering Committee and local team direct the strategy, analysing and approving grants to help local environmental groups bring about long-lasting change.
More information can be found here.
Erste Social Banking
Erste Group is dedicated to supporting those who only a few believe in. Social Banking in Hungary works on equal access to financial services, both in the private and civil sector. Erste Social Banking developed the most affordable civil account package and a special loan product offer, supported by a European Investment Fund (EIF) guarantee. Beyond that, Erste Social Banking set up a range of civil education programmes and tailor-made consultancy services like Erste SEEDS consultancy programme, as well as hosting Erste Stiftung’s NGO academies. They also put a great emphasis on financial literacy education and social housing by cooperating with acclaimed NGOs to create real social impact.
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Enactus
Enactus UK supports students and young people across the country to engage in social action and social enterprise.It’s mission in the UK is to be recognised as a leader in developing a national network of socially minded young leaders of the future, who transform communities and society through real life social action and environmentally responsible enterprise.
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Environmental Funders Network (EFN)
The Foundation is a member of the Environmental Funders Network, a UK-based network of foundations, family offices and individuals supporting environmental causes. The network aims to increase the amount of support for environmental causes and to improve its overall effectiveness.
More information can be found here.
Flow Foundation
Flow Foundation supports non-profit organisations and communities with organisational development and leadership development, providing training and support for non-profit leaders and employees. It promotes learning and flow experience, the mental state in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in intense concentration and enjoyment. Flow Foundation helps people recognise, gain awareness of, and create the flow experience, so they can achieve flow in their work and personal life, and they can lead their communities and organisations in an effective and fulfilling way.
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Green Schools Project
A social enterprise that enables young people to fulfil their potential by providing resources and support to schools to engage them in environmental projects, building their skills and aspirations while encouraging them, their community and wider society to live in a more sustainable way.
More information can be found here.
High Trees Community Development Trust
High Trees is an established community anchor and hub based in Tulse Hill, South London. Adopting a holistic approach to community development, their work is delivered in a collaborative manner; working with other partners to enhance service delivery, avoid duplication of work and ensure there is a joined-up approach to supporting Lambeth’s most under served individuals and communities.
You can find out more here.
Independent Theater
The Independent Theater was established in 2004 in order to produce and manage high quality artistic products based on Roma and inter-ethnic topics. The Theater aims to prove that Roma integration can be developed in the frame of socially active and financially sustainable enterprises, which can produce valuable products of art.
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Jai Bhim Buddhist Network
The Jai Bhim Buddhist Network is a religious association of young Roma Buddhists which was established in 2007. The Jai Bhim Network is based on the liberation movement started in India during the 1950’s. The movement was led by Dr. Ambedkar who called for the end of discrimination against the lower castes and the fulfilment of their human rights.
The mission of the Jai Bhim Buddhist Network is to provide high quality education to some of the most disadvantaged communities in Hungary which are typically overrepresented by Roma, in order to enable them to change their status within society. Apart from their core educational activities, the Network also implements cultural, social, health, religious, child and youth protection programmes.
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Let’s Help Each Other Association and Social Cooperative
Since 2013, Tegyünk Egymásért Egyesület and Szociális Szövetkezet (Let’s Help Each Other Association and Social Cooperative) has been active in Pécs-Somogy, one of the most impoverished neighbourhoods of Pécs. Their work focuses on community building and employment generating activities.
Visit the website of the Association and the Facebook page of the Social Cooperative.
Live Consciously Association
The Association’s mission is to help families and children living in deep poverty focusing on (former) foster care youth living in one of the poorest geographic areas of Hungary (Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county). The Association provides economic support, offers mentoring and organises community events for their beneficiaries. In addition, they operate a charity shop that provides employment opportunities and access to quality second-hand products. Starting in 2020, the Association plans to scale up this shop and establish a rural charity shop and fair network.
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Mahájána Foundation
The Mahájána Foundation works in the disadvantaged district of Csörög situated north of Budapest. Its first project provided tutoring programmes to help local Roma children maintain their learning standards so that they could complete primary school and move on to secondary school. Mahájána recognised that in order to help these children more effectively and break the cycle of inter-generational poverty, they also needed to work with the parents to improve the overall living standards of each family. To do this, Mahájána has initiated a number of local community projects including a community garden, biomass briquette project and small social enterprises. The team also strives to promote partnerships with local businesses, public sector and civil society organisations in order to build better relationships with the Roma community.
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Nottingham Potential
Nottingham Potential is the University of Nottingham’s outreach initiative which aims to support young people living in disadvantaged areas of Nottingham reach their educational potential. The initiative works with children from primary school age right up to university level entry through a number of interventions which take place at the University campus, in participating schools and in three learning centres which are operated in conjunction with Into University.
Please click here for more information on the Nottingham Potential programme.
Oswin Project
The Oswin Project came together in 2012 to improve ex-offenders’ chances of finding long-term employment on leaving prison. Oswin supports ex-offenders in North East England by sourcing paid employment and apprenticeship opportunities whilst providing individual support.
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Plastic Free North Devon
Plastic Free North Devon is a grassroots organisation that aims to inspire North Devon residents, tourists and businesses to drastically reduce their consumption of single-use plastic, remove it from the environment and dispose of it properly. It aims to connect people with their natural surroundings through conversations, education and events.
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Romaversitas
Romaversitas is a Budapest based foundation that has been operating since 1996. It aims to support the Romani youth in entering and pursuing higher education by providing mentoring, competence development, and career counselling. Through its activities, Romaversitas wishes to contribute to the building of a strong Romani intellectual group, to develop and strengthen the Roma identity and communities.
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SIMPACT
SIMPACT Nonprofit Ltd. is operating in 5 countries and working with consultants who have business, as well as not-for-profit expertise. SIMPACT is specialised in providing capacity building to social enterprises and non-profit organisations. They focus on maximising the social impact of selected organisations via providing support in a variety of fields, in particular increasing the efficiency of operational processes, developing key entrepreneurial skills and facilitating business planning.
Please click here for more information about SIMPACT.
Tűzcsiholó Egyesület (Firestarter Association)
Although the Firestarter Association was established in the spring of 2020, its activities go back decades. Former carers and care leavers of the Tiszadob orphanage, together with others committed to the cause, set a mission to ensure that the children of care leavers do not grow up without parents. The activities of the Association are diverse and tailored to the individual and the family, they include: childcare counselling, debt settlement, talent management, crisis management, employment advice and community building.
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Voluntary Organisations’ Network North East (VONNE)
The Foundation is an Associate Member of the Voluntary Organisations’ Network North East. As well as supporting charities, community groups and social enterprises, VONNE facilitates partnerships and builds opportunities for collaboration within the voluntary and community sector in North East England.
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Well Grounded Jobs C.I.C
Well Grounded is a Speciality Coffee Training Academy, changing lives. They link people looking for work with an industry looking for talent. As London’s first social enterprise solely focused on developing talent within the speciality coffee industry, Well Grounded is on a mission to support Londoners furthest from the labour market into employment as Baristas.
Please click here to find out more about their work.
Woodshed Workshop
Woodshed Workshop (WW) is a Community Interest Company that provides wood-working, DIY, trade and employability skills along with pastoral, person-centred support to people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Based in Sacriston, County Durham, WW gives anyone who needs a chance the opportunityto gain skills and make a positive change to their lives.
Find out more here.
Youth Realities
Youth Realities is a youth-led organisation based in Barnet, addressing teenage relationship abuse through creative education and specialist, survivor-centred support. It is on a mission to educate, empower and support young people to feel happier, healthier and safer; through youth-centred creativity, empathy and healing.
For more information, click here.