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National COVID-19 Impact Survey of Social Enterprises
From Department of Rural and Community Development
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From Department of Rural and Community Development
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Last updated on
A Social Enterprise is business whose core objective is to achieve a social or environmental impact. Like other businesses, they pursue their objectives by trading in goods and services on an ongoing basis. However, surpluses generated by social enterprises are re-invested into achieving the core social objectives.
The COVID-19 crisis has had a dramatic effect on most sectors in Ireland, including social enterprises. In the majority of cases social enterprises are micro or small to medium businesses. Many deliver services to vulnerable groups of people and depend on the income generated from these services.
The Department has engaged on a continuous basis with social enterprises throughout the country and is aware of the significant impact the crisis is having. To ensure we have a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of these impacts the Department is seeking the views of the sector.
We are asking all social enterprises to complete this short survey which should only take about 10 minutes.
The Department is responsible for the implementation of Ireland’s first National Social Enterprise Policy for Ireland 2019-2022 The Policy is helping to create an enabling environment for social enterprise in Ireland to grow and contribute to Ireland’s social and economic progress and is focused on three main objectives:
1. Building Awareness of Social Enterprise.
2. Growing and Strengthening Social Enterprise.
3. Achieving Better Policy Alignment.