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Minorities ‘more likely to work for social enterprises’
Those working for social enterprises are more likely to be from minority backgrounds, a new study shows.
In research conducted by Delta Economics it was revealed that a greater proportion of social entrepreneurs are women and people from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds than men or those who are Caucasian.
Rebecca Harding, managing director of Delta Economics, said: "Under-represented groups in enterprise, such as women and BAME communities, are more likely to be social entrepreneurs and be innovative in tackling the needs they see in front of them on a daily basis."
The study also showed that some 1.3 million people across Britain work for a social enterprise.
Such news might be of interest to those seeking jobs with social enterprises via a regional recruitment portal.
It was recently revealed that six ethnic community groups operating in London are to share some £2 million in grants from local authorities in the capital during the next four years.
More regional recruitment portal information.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
There is no surprise there not long ago the newspaper let out an article that stated a women with a lot of experience within the field she was going for had a phone interview and was accepted for the job and then as soon as she was seen and known to be black she was criticized on no basis other then she was black trying to cover it up by stating she was sacked because she was slacking and lazy on the job where there is no proof of this, the woman sued an got a good settled amount which goes to show that there is still racism within institutes especially at the top that could of been over looked if it was a face to face interview could of dropped the line oh we’ve found another more suitable candidate for x y and z reasons you have no way of proving it was racism with social enterprises it’s different social enterprise itself is diverse and so therefore they will hire diversity. Only place EVERYONE is accepted. They even they have to employ at least 25% disabled people within any social enterprise building. That’s brilliant take a stroll down Central London or any high streets tell me how many disabled people are working there?