UK Social Enterprise Awards 2024
Our suppliers
The team at Social Enterprise UK is committed to buying social, so our event suppliers for the Awards include a wide range of social enterprises, working to ensure this celebration of our sector’s achievements drives even more positive impact for people and planet.
Read more below about the brilliant suppliers helping us to deliver the 2024 UK Social Enterprise Awards – and please get in touch if you’d like to join our social procurement network, sharing advice and support to bring more social enterprises into supply chains.
Belu
Water tonight is supplied by Belu, a drinks business and social enterprise with a clear purpose: to change the way the world sees water. Belu invests all its profits in people and planet – saving carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere; implementing a circular economy; bringing clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene to everyone, everywhere, with impact partner WaterAid. Since 2011, Belu has given £5.5m to help WaterAid transform lives worldwide. Belu delivers incredible drinks with industry leading sustainability credentials, giving the conscious consumer the choice to build a better world through their buying decisions.
Brightwayz
Awards trophies this year were produced by Brightwayz – a social enterprise on a mission to promote safe, active, sustainable travel for all on everyday journeys. With transport the largest source of carbon emissions in the UK, air quality at dangerous levels, children’s activity at an all time low and traffic collisions the leading killer of young people – challenges are great but social enterprise can be part of the solution. Brightwayz reinvests 100% of profits from its product sales and local consultancy services into grassroots travel projects.
brightwayz.co.uk | @BrightwayzUK
The Clink Events
The menu this evening has been produced in The Clink Kitchens at HMP Downview by serving prisoners training with The Clink Events. Graduates of The Clink’s training schemes receive intensive training and support to achieve a Level 1 NVQ in Hospitality, giving them the skills and experience to work in the service industry. The Clink takes a modern approach to event catering, creating delicious food using fresh local ingredients – with as many as possible grown in the Clink Gardens at HMP Send. Clink Events partner with Carbon Neutral Britain to measure and offset their carbon footprint, and are certified as a carbon neutral business.
theclinkcharity.org | @TheClinkCharity
DTP Print Group
Tonight’s programme and other printed event collateral is produced by social enterprise printers DTP – offering creative and compelling solutions for your print and marketing projects, born from wide-ranging experience and technical know-how that gives you the best return. DTP delivers training and start-up programmes in Zambia through its partner: The Africa Enterprise Trust.
Expert Impact
The artists hosting and entertaining us tonight were booked via Expert Impact Speakers, the world’s first social enterprise talent management and booking agency. Expert Impact started providing business mentoring in 2014, and now operates as a franchise providing the tools, training and support that organisations need to set up their own service in other territories. To better share the valuable insight of mentors and mentees, in 2022 the speakers agency was launched, with all profits helping to fund the mentoring service.
expertimpact.com/speaking | @ExpertImpact
Fuse Events
Social Enterprise UK delivers this event with support from Fuse, a full-service event management company with a commitment to creating lasting change. As a social enterprise, Fuse reinvests its profits into organising some of the world’s largest behaviour change and social marketing events; these global gatherings empower marketers with the skills to drive positive, measurable outcomes in communities worldwide. All Fuse’s events focus on solving critical global challenges from environmental sustainability to poverty alleviation and social justice initiatives.
fuseevents.org | @FuseEventsUK
Mediorite
Our celebrations tonight are documented by Mediorite, a social enterprise that offers training and careers support for diverse young people in London and Leeds. Its award-winning team works with clients across the public, private and third sectors nationwide to create fabulous videos with proven social impact. Now in its 15th year, all of its projects create paid work for a young person that Mediorite has trained.
NEMI Teas
After dinner tonight we’ll serve organic tea blends that also create employment for refugees – running tea stalls across London, or performing commercial roles within the business, gaining skills and experience to better integrate in the UK. NEMI is an impact-driven social enterprise, re-investing more than half its profits back into the business to help achieve social impact goals.
Perkee Coffee
We’ll also enjoy single origin coffee sourced from the Soppexcca co-operative in Jinotega, Nicaragua, with profits reinvested in the local community to create an ambitious and sustainable future for the next generation. Perkee ensures farmers are paid the Fairtrade Premium, so they can build a better quality of life and fight the challenges their families may face.
perkeecoffee.com | @PerkeeCoffee
Tap Social Movement
At the bar tonight you’ll find beer from a social enterprise that brews, bakes and creates inclusive community hospitality venues – helping turn lives around for prisoners and prison leavers through direct employment and advocacy. Since 2016 Tap Social Movement has created more than 85,000 hours of paid employment for prisoners and prison leavers, equipping them to lead a productive and happy life while reducing reoffending and victimisation.
tapsocialmovement.com | @TapSocialMovement
Toast Brewing
Our bar is also stocked with planet-saving Toast Ale, which is brewed with surplus bakery bread, and all profits go to charities fixing the food system. Food production is the biggest contributor to climate change, but one third of all food is wasted; Toast works to change that. If you stacked up every slice of bread saved by Toast since 2016, they’d be nearly five times the height of Mount Everest!
