Social Enterprise Development Company

Our mission is the relief of poverty in Ireland through the promotion, development and creation of Charitable Social Enterprises which can provide services and create employment for individuals, communities and communities of interest that are disadvantaged or experiencing poverty.

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Transformation Through Social Enterprise

The social economy is an inspiring vision for a better world.

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Sustainable

A world in which enterprises prioritise people and planet, not profit.

Diverse

A world in which organisations are diverse and where there’s a role for everyone in society.

Resilient

Social economy enterprises are proven to be more robust than private enterprises.

Equal

The social economy can help us solve the income inequality crises by redistributing wealth more equitably.

”Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

Martin Luther King1966

Testimonials

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Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.' To create a truly democratic society, we must eradicate the economic structures of capitalism and replace them with cooperative and communal systems.

Angela DavisScholar
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Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

Muhammad YunusGrameen
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Capitalism, driven by the blind and irrational forces of profit, must inevitably lead to its own destruction. Only through collective action can the oppressed rise and establish a society built on equality and cooperation... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

Sylvia PankhurstSuffragette
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The present arrangement of society is the most anti-social, impolitic, and irrational that can be devised; that under its influence all the superior and valuable qualities of the human race are repressed from infancy, and that the most unnatural means are used to bring out the most injurious propensities.

Robert OwenFounder, Co-Operative Movement