Social Enterprise: Identities And Legalities

Social Enterprise: Identities and Legalities Private Economy LEGAL FORMS & KEY CONCEPTS Company Limited By Shares (CLS)

Public Company

Public Bodies

Social Investors

Community Groups Beneficiaries

Mutual Society

Friendly Trade Society Union Foundation Community Trust "Surplus Development Enterprise Community Sharing" Trust t s Benefit Society Company re Ch Social te (CLS / IPS) ar n I s Campaigning Firm ita y ie Charitable ble an pan Charity p Association Incorporated Community St m m atu Co Co Organisation Interest s Trading

Volunteers

Exempt Charity

Consumer Cooperative

Employee Share Ownership Trust (ESOT)

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Company (CIC) Company Limited Registered by Guarantee Charity (CLG) Charitable Industrial & Unincorporated Company (CLG) Provident Society Associations (BENCOM)

Charity

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Public Sector

Consumers

Marketing Cooperative

Employee Benefit Trust (EBT)

Voluntary Action "We argue that social enterprises mix the economic principles of market, redistribution and reciprocity, and hybridize their three types of economic exchange so that they work together rather than in isolation from each other." Nyssens, M., (2006) Social Enterprise at the Crossroads of Market, Public and Civil Society, London: Routledge., p. 318.

"[Social enterprise is ideally] at the overlap of all sectors. It replaces public, private and third sector competition with a democratic multi-stakeholder model. All interests in a supply chain are acknowledged to break down barriers to social change." Ridley-Duff, R. J., Bull, M. and Seanor, P. (2009) Understanding Social Enterprise: Theory and Practice, London: Sage, Chapter 3.

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Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)

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