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The Legacy
Cultural Shift South East was a Second Round Equal partnership established to encourage a culture of social entrepreneurship across the public private and voluntary and community sectors.
The Cultural Shift South East programme led by the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), was a partnership of regional and local organisations that recognised the need to engage entrepreneurs, managers and investors from all three sectors to create long term, sustainable solutions to social issues
In 2003, SEEDA undertook research that identified partnership with mainstream service providers as a key factor in creating sustainable social enterprises that offer inclusive employment to the most excluded. This study also identified that partnership approaches were limited by regulatory and cultural barriers between the public and social enterprise sectors.
The Cultural Shift partnership had two strategic aims:
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To model inclusive employment models delivered through independent social enterprises.
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To create new protocols for entrepreneurial partnerships between mainstream public sector providers and social enterprises in the South East.
These objectives were achieved by working through a transnational, multi-partner based action research process of participative design and development to create demonstration social enterprises, working effectively with mainstream agencies. This process created policy tools and models that will be mainstreamed into regional policy and will set off a process of further social enterprise development.
Sector Groups:
Cultural Shift South East sought to gain the engagement of key policy making organisations to promote understanding of the role and potential of social enterprise to the achievement of their sector aims and to gain engagement in an action research process that will assess the inherent Cultural barriers to further facilitation. This took place through the formation of sector specific development groups including; Culture, Housing, Rural Service delivery, Regeneration, Environment and Health and Social Care. These 6 sector networks supported the development of social enterprise and developed individual sector policy mainstreaming strategies for National and regional dissemination.
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