Top 100 UK social enterprises revealed: NatWest SE100 2021

Top 100 UK social enterprises revealed:
NatWest SE100 2021

By Post Reporters

From inspired educators to revolutionary advertisers, from football clubs to community cafés, from 'positive pants' to food that fights loneliness – the NatWest SE100 once again celebrates UK social enterprises in all their wonderful diversity.

Alongside our top 100 list announced today, we also reveal the UK’s most impressive up-and-coming social enterprises: our SE100 top 25 Trailblazing Newcomers.

Tim West, founding editor of Pioneers Post, who created the SE100 in partnership with NatWest more than a decade ago, said: “It’s always a high point of our year to reveal the names of the UK’s top 100 social enterprises, and a real pleasure to give these organisations and their teams some well-deserved recognition.

What does it take to be an award-winning social enterprise? Learn from the UK’s best in the Pioneers Post NatWest SE100 collection.

“The Top 100 are judged on a wide range of criteria – from the growth and sustainability of their businesses to the innovation and resilience they have demonstrated and the social impact they have delivered. Our 25 Trailblazing Newcomers are in their first few years of trading but already proving the positive impact of the social business model.

“It’s never easy to make our final selection but it’s always an inspiring exercise. Their stories remind us what’s possible when social purpose and business savvy come together, even in these times of incredible pressure and uncertainty experienced during the past year.”

Megan Virrels, CEO at NatWest Social & Community Capital, said: “Congratulations to all those who have been named in this year’s NatWest SE100 lists. Over the past five years, Social & Community Capital has approved over £10m in loans to more than 80 social ventures, and our ambition is to increase the size and strength of this important sector of the UK economy. So we’re delighted once again to partner with Pioneers Post to recognise the best of social enterprise across the UK.”

You can explore all 125 organisations here through their photos and website links, and the full lists, in alphabetical order, are provided below.

Next week, look out for our 2021 NatWest SE100 Award Winners, who will be revealed on Friday 16 July.

TOP 100

TRAILBLAZING NEWCOMERS

FULL LIST

Top 100

ACH
Active Prospects
Asperger East Anglia
Beam
Bighous Ltd
Bikeworks Community Interest Company
Birdsong London
Bolster Community
Breadwinners
Bristol & Bath Regional Capital
Bristol Together CIC
Care4all (North East Lincolnshire) Ltd
Cause4 Ltd
Change Please CIC
Charity Bank
Children's University Trust
Circle Scotland CIC
Clean Slate Training and Employment
Clear Voice Interpreting Services
Cockpit Arts
Community Wood Recycling
Connection Crew CIC
Creating Enterprise
Dot Dot Dot Property
Eastside Primetimers
Egni Coop
Equal Education
Family Psychology Mutual
Find Your Voice CIC
Five Lamps
Forward Carers
From Babies with Love
Furniture Resource Centre Limited
Glyn Wylfa Ltd
Good-Loop Ltd
Greenstream Flooring CIC
Greenwich Leisure Ltd
Groundwork North Wales
GTS Solutions CIC
Hackney Wick FC
Hatch Enterprise
Hertfordshire Independent Living Service
Hollywell Housing Trust
Homes for Good Investments Limited
Hope 4 The Community CIC
Hubbub Enterprise
Impact Hub King's Cross
IncomeMax
InPower Academy CIC
Kith & Kin Financial Wellbeing CIC
Leicester Community Benefit Society
London Early Years Foundation
Madlug
Memory Matters South West CIC
Micro Rainbow CIC
Migrateful
Music Broth
Musica Music and Wellbeing CIC
NEMI Teas Limited
NOW Group
On Purpose
Open Book Publishers
P3 Charity
Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise CIC
People Matters (West Yorkshire)
CIO
Pilotlight
Pinkspiration CIC
Primary Care International CIC (PCI)
Reall
Recruit for Spouses
Resonance
Restorative Justice for All International
Institute
Social Enterprise Lancashire Network (Selnet) Ltd
Semble
Shared Interest Society
Social Ark
Social Enterprise Kent
Social Enterprise Mark CIC
Social Investment Business
Social Supermarket
Solutions for the Planet
Stand4 Ventures Ltd
Street Factory CIC
The Baca Charity
The Community Impact Initiative
The Edinburgh Remakery
The House of St Barnabas
The Hummingbird Project CIC
The Integrate Agency CIC
The Sewing Rooms
The Skill Mill Limited
The Social Change Agency
Therapy 4 Healing
Toast Ale
Touch Network CIC
Trinity Fencing CIC
Ultra Education CIC
We Make Places CIC
Well Grounded Jobs
Wild & Kind CIC
Your Own Place CIC

Trailblazing newcomers

ARK at Egwood CIC
Bankuet Limited
Be Inclusive Hospitality
Birmingham Enterprise Community CIC
Bright Future Foods, now Tierra Foods
Do it Now Now
Ecologi Action Ltd
Enbarr Foundation CIC
For Purpose Jobs
Generation UK
Goal 17 Ltd
ICENA Ltd
Lotus Sanctuary CIC
Luminary Bakery
Muse Projects CIC
My Pickle CIC
Pivot (Make Pivot Ltd.)
SafetyNet Technologies
Social Stories Club
Supply Change
The Long Table
The RecShop C.I.C.
The Umbrella Cafe CIC
Y.O.U Underwear

The NatWest SE100 Index and Social Business Awards was created by Pioneers Post, in partnership with NatWest Social & Community Capital. Each year we celebrate and share learning from the UK’s leading social enterprises. More information can be found in our dedicated NatWest SE100 collection.

This feature is part of a new style of multi-media, or ‘immersive’, features we are producing on Pioneers Post. Get in touch if you'd like to tell your social impact story.

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