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Objective
This award will recognise the achievements of individuals or businesses that make an outstanding contribution to their local and/or wider community in terms of social, economic, or environmental improvements.
Criteria:
- Social enterprises (an enterprise that trades for a social/societal purpose and is separate from government)
- Companies excelling in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Note:
- A Social Enterprise is a business that focuses on tackling social problems, strengthening communities, improving people’s life chances, or protecting the environment, as opposed to generating income for private individuals or bodies. Profits are reinvested in the business and/or in the community to further the social aims of the enterprise.
- For example, excellence in CSR in the following areas will be recognised:
- Environmental – focusing on eco issues such as climate change
- Community – improving the quality of life for people in the community
- Workplace – improving the wellbeing of staff
- Charity partnership – working with a charity to help in fundraising, promoting or assisting in other areas of their work
Application Questions:
- Briefly describe your business, including your vision and mission statement.
- Demonstrate the Social Enterprise nature/CSR ethos of your organisation. As a Social Enterprise, what is unique in terms of your products or services. As a business with a CSR ethos, what value does your CSR engagement add to your business environment, community, workplace, or charity?
- Showcase details of any collaborative working arrangements, joint ventures, or other initiatives undertaken with other County Wexford regional, national, or international businesses, or social enterprises, organisations, clubs, societies to address and find solutions for a particular issue.
- Outline your organisation’s policies/commitments/investment, formal or informal, that ensure the consistent delivery of your added value service/CSR engagement and how you monitor feedback.
- Outline two examples of marketing activities your business engaged in to grow your social enterprise/promote your CSR activities in 2023. How did you measure the impact of your work?
- Outline any sustainable practices your social enterprise implemented in the past year. Or any sustainable practices your CSR activities supported in 2023.
The above will be assessed in the context of the size and resources of the business.
Please note: Financial details will be requested at time of interview, and entrepreneurial characteristics with dynamic and measurable systems in place, to monitor performance, financial controls, marketing and sales growth will be taken into account.