This year's NatWest SE100 Social Business Champions prove that even in tough times the best social ventures find ways to stay resilient and to innovate.
The 2020 NatWest SE100 Growth Champion, Hubbub Enterprise, went from losing thousands of pounds a month to revenue growth of 96%. The current crisis is an “enormous setback” – but it has already launched a new initiative.
"I said that nobody is going to be thinking about investing in Shared Interest at a time like this – but I couldn’t have been more wrong." Our joint SE100 Impact Management Champion shares her gratitude in the British public.
It's the UK’s biggest community-owned wind farm – and since it opened in 2016, our very first SE100 Environmental Champion has given out more than £1m in donations and grants.
A key reason to measure impact is to then use that knowledge to adapt your activities. The Skills Builder Partnership does exactly this and is the reason why it is a joint winner of our SE100 Impact Management Champion award.
A combination of physical fitness and mental health services is a winning formula for Projekt 42, a not-for-profit gym and wellness centre in Leith, Edinburgh which is this year's SE100 Trailblazing Newcomer.
GLL is the UK’s largest social enterprise leisure provider. At the start of 2019, our Storyteller award winner launched a new marketing campaign to attract millennials away from private operators that were threatening its market share.
The Sewing Rooms had great opportunities lined up earlier this year. Then Covid hit and everything went on hold. But the fighting spirit took over for our SE100 Resilience Award winner – The Sewing Rooms.
