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Dept of Health Social Enterprise Investment Fund
13th July 2009
The Social Enterprise Investment Fund (SEIF) provides investment to help new social enterprises start up and existing social enterprises grow and improve their services. We work to support social enterprises in the delivery of innovative health and social care services.
The Fund was set up in 2007 as part of the Government’s plans for stimulating expansion in the role of social enterprise in the provision of health and social care.
By enabling social enterprises to deliver health and social care services, the Social Enterprise Investment Fund aims to improve the quality of services for patients.
Social enterprises that can apply to SEIF include:
- Multi-agency partnerships, particularly voluntary and community groups wishing to use their expertise to provide services across health and social care
- Existing social enterprises looking to expand into health and social care
- Groups of professionals, such as nurses or therapists, seeking to form a social enterprise
- to deliver their services using the ‘right to request’ - see link below
- All social enterprises who apply would be expected to have a ‘not for profit’ status.
For more information and links to the managing agents website please see http://bit.ly/seinvestmentfund
