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WinterWillow is a Social Enterprise - part of WinterComfort For The Homeless
Overstream House, Victoria Avenue, Cambridge, CB4 1EG
Registered Charity No. 1003083 Registered Company No. 2615905
Tel: 01223 518140 Fax. 01223 566973
Email: info@wintercomfort.org.uk
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WinterWillow
Ethical craft skills and training
delivered to fulfill a social need
Winter Willow is a Social Enterprise
Part of WinterComfort For The Homeless
UK Regd. Charity No. 1003083
UK Regd. Company No. 2615905
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WinterWillow functions as a social enterprise.
What does this mean?
Social enterprises are social mission driven organisations which apply market-based strategies to achieve a social purpose.
The movement includes both non-profits that use business models to pursue their mission and for-profits whose primary purposes are social.
Their aim – to accomplish targets that are social and or environmental as well as financial – is often referred to as the triple bottom line.
Many commercial businesses would consider themselves to have social objectives, but social enterprises are distinctive because their social or environmental purpose remains central to their operation.
A social enterprise definition from Wikipedia...read more
Useful Social Enterprise and weaving links from WinterWillow...
Social Enterprise East of England is a membership and networking organisation for social businesses.
SEEE offer networking and events, news and support for your social enterprise. Read more...
WinterWillow - combatting Homelessness
WinterComfort, the founding organisation in which WinterWillow is based, supports those who are homeless or at risk of losing their homes by offering them basic amenities, opportunities for educational development and recreation, and a range of services designed to help them achieve greater autonomy.
WinterComfort offers therapeutic services, educational courses, volunteering & employment projects, specialist services for alcohol and drug addiction, addresses the special needs of young homeless people, and provides monthly drop-in health clinics.
The organisation has also develops and sustains positive working relationships with other local agencies to provide more streamlined and consistent services.
Where our social enterprise
delivers from...
