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Local areas of delivery

The Social Enterprise Boost Fund will be delivered in:

• County Durham
• Sandwell
• South Tyneside
• Sunderland
• Thanet
• Wolverhampton

Capacity-building support and grants of up to 10,000 will be made available to start-up social enterprises or entrepreneurs who have been registered for less than 5 years.

For more information, please contact the Local Delivery Partner for your area:

• for County Durham, please contact North East BIC
• for Sandwell and Wolverhampton, please contact iSE
• for South Tyneside and Sunderland, please contact First Port for Social Entrepreneurs
• for Thanet, please contact Social Enterprise Kent

Objectives

The objectives of the SEBF are, by March 2025, to:

• grow the social enterprise sector in targeted areas, by supporting the creation of new social enterprises and boosting early stage organisations
• enable targeted high-deprivation local authorities and the local voluntary and community sector in these places to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage social enterprise growth
• build and disseminate evidence on:
  • scalable and sustainable place-based interventions that work in growing the social enterprise sector in disadvantaged areas
  • the extent to which and how social enterprises support communities and economies in disadvantaged areas