Debate contribution: Social Enterprise Co-design Group
Debate contribution by Dr Caoimhe Archibald on .
- MLA
- Dr Caoimhe Archibald
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 1 April 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Social Enterprise Co-design Group
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4876915
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The social enterprise co-design group held its most recent meeting on 13 March 2025, when it was updated on progress on the implementation of the social enterprise action plan and began discussions on how to further develop the work in future financial years. Subsequently, just last week, I met the group's chair and co-chair, Dave Linton and Maeve Monaghan, to discuss progress and to hear their views on what more can be done to strengthen the social enterprise sector here. The broad focus of the current work is on improving the participation of social enterprises in public-sector commissioning and on strengthening leadership capacity in the sector. Progress has been made with Invest NI and InterTradeIreland on facilitating access by social enterprises to support. I thank both organisations for the willingness and creativity that they have shown in developing solutions at pace. The co-design group will meet again later this month specifically to discuss access to finance for the sector, and I look forward to attending its meeting in June.
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