Breadwinners shortlisted for two Social Enterprise Awards 2024

We are delighted to be shortlisted in the Prove It: Social Impact award, and the Community Based Social Enterprise award at the UK Social Enterprise Awards 2024.

Run by Social Enterprise UK, the Awards celebrate the leading lights in our sector, showcasing diversity and impact across 15 categories.

Social enterprises are businesses that trade for a social or environmental purpose, and reinvest at least half their profits to further that mission. There are around 131,000 social enterprises in the UK, employing 2.3 million people, and we’re delighted to be recognised as one of the best in this pioneering business movement.

Prove It: Social Impact

For a social enterprise that can truly demonstrate and communicate their impact with their stakeholders.

We are proud to have been nominated for the Prove It: Social Impact award. This year, we once again conducted our Participatory Action Research (PAR), a research method that values experience as knowledge and engages participants in the conducting of research, to evaluate our impact and improve our programmes. We collated data collected by our research team of 16 young people, and used that to inform our Impact Report 2023/24. This is an integral way for us to evaluate and communicate our impact and we are proud to have this recognised. You can check out this year’s Impact Report below!

Community Based Social Enterprise

This award is for a social enterprise that trades for the benefit of their community, making a real local impact.

At Breadwinners, community is at the heart of what we do. From community events and activities for our young people, mentors, and friends of Breadwinners, to the wider community in and around our markets and across London and Brighton.

According to our Participatory Action Research, community connections and engagement is the top thing that people like most about breadwinners (51 people said this in our PAR).