Peter Holbrook CBE is Group CEO of Social Enterprise Coalition CIC, the umbrella organisation for Social Enterprise UK, Home of Social Enterprise LLP (JV), Telos Impact Ltd, Expert Impact Charity and Expert Impact Speakers Ltd.
When he took on the role of CEO of Social Enterprise UK in 2010, he also joined the Cabinet Office’s Mutuals Taskforce and became a trustee of the Big Society Trust. In 2012, he was appointed chair of the Social Enterprise World Forum and a member of the EU Social Business Initiative Expert Group. In January 2015, he was awarded a CBE in the New Years Honours list for services to social enterprise.
Peter previously worked for Oxfam, Greenpeace and various disability charities before founding his own social enterprise in 2001: the Sunlight Development Trust. A social enterprise addressing health and social inequalities in the community, it won the Community Regeneration Awards (BURA) in 2005 and was highly commended by the Centre for Social Justice in 2007, going on to be named Best New Social Enterprise at the Enterprising Solutions Awards in 2008.