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Who can apply?

If you are an existing, or wishing to launch, a social enterprise that delivers innovative improvements to health or social care, you might be eligible for a loan, grant or business support from the SEIF.

Eligibility criteria

  • You have to be a social enterprise according to the Government definition - ‘a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally invested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners’
  • Your proposed services have to deliver health and/or social care outcomes
  • The ultimate beneficiaries of your proposal must be based in England
  • You have to be unable to secure funding from a commercial bank
  • You must be able to repay the investment and be able to show how you plan to do so
  • Your proposal must help meet the aims of SEIF

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