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Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) are social enterprises that focus on helping people with disadvantages into employment; whether that’s through job creation, job placement, work preparation, Intermediate Labour Market (ILM) scheme or vocational training. The ones doing job creation within their own business are most likely to be Social Firms.
Did you know that the Social Firm sector in the UK is potentially saving our Government in the region of
£40m in benefit payments and £8m in health costs
Read how we have calculated these figures. Find out more about Social Firm businesses, Visit a Social Firm - show your support and get inspired at the same time and buy quality products and services from a Social Firm. However you want to support this sector, Social Firms UK can help. Read our blog. Listen to interviews with Social Firms.
FREE GUIDE to help people with disabilities & health problems through the benefits maze and into work Click here. Updated October 2011
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A recent review by the New Economics Foundation (nef) said there is “a remarkable story” of how Social Firms UK has been able to maintain a strategic view of how it wants to create change in the world whilst constantly striving to meet its members’ needs. 
