DETI – Invest NI – Delivering Social Change - Delivery and Operation of 9 Social Enterprise Hubs.

Descriptions

Invest NI is now seeking to appoint a Contractor(s) to design, manage and deliver Social Enterprise Hub activity across 11 locations (within the 9 social investment zones). The aim of the SEIH Signature Project is to tackle vacancy and community eyesores and the lack of local employment by encouraging social enterprise business start up within local communities.ObjectivesThe SEIH Pilot Project will be an ‘action and learning' pilot project supported by DSD and DETI/Invest NI focused on:- Improving the streetscape by reducing street-level vacancy,- creating employment opportunities within the social economy sector; and- promoting the social economy in disadvantaged areas.The Pilot Project objectives are:- The creation of 9 Social Enterprise Hubs across NI with one in each of the 9 designated Social Investment Zones by March 2014;- The removal of community eyesores through targeting clusters of street level vacant or under-used units within eleven communities by November 2013;- The encouragement of social enterprise business start-ups within local communities; and- The provision of services for the purposes of facilitating social enterprise.