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Are Social Enterprises Being Over-Hyped?
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Mike Geraghty says: The Scottish Government has increased funding for the Third Sector by some 37% over the next three years. The total funding available is worth just over £90 million for this period. However, is there is not a danger that raised expectations that go alongside this increased funding might not be matched by a corresponding increase in the overall sustainability of small social enterprises in Argyll and Bute? After all many of these social enterprises have arisen because of 'market failure' which really means - the private sector could not make a profit out of delivering this service. So, if the prviate sector couldn't make a profit from providing a service - are social enteprises better placed to do so? How exactly are they going to achieve this? Or are social enterprises being over-hyped? or worse being set-up to fail? Posted at 10:02am on Sunday 2nd September 2007 |
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Linda Morpurgo says: Dear Mike, It's a bit late in the day to respond, but I've only just joined. These are precisely my own worries (I'm Chair of FiddleFolk). It's an even more burning question for a rural arts social enterprise. There's a daunting expectation in Argyll that Arts activity will have ridiculously low charges. (We have already raised ours to top levels.)But we face the same problems as local businesses in that delivery costs are high because of transport distance and lack of local resources (in our case, musicians). Arts provision is not a profitable activity in anyone's book-but it's adapt or die just now. Fortunately we like challenges... Posted at 12:30 pm on Thursday 30th April 2009 |
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