There are three main ways in which a social enterprise may define itself as having a "social" impact through its work... the "three Ps". They are its purpose, its process, or the use of its profits...
You can select one option, two or all three.
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Social purpose: For instance, running a healthy living centre in order to improve the health and wellbeing of local people.
Social process: For instance, working with and training young people to produce DVDs.
Social profit: For instance, investing income from a visitors' shop and ticket receipts from barge trips into the expenses involved in conserving a local canal.
We have a social purpose - it is our product which is of community benefit...
We use a social process - it is the way in which our business operates which is important...
We put our profit to social use - our business exists to make money, which is invested for a community benefit...
