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Social Enterprise for Wellbeing and Mental Health

Social Enterprise for Wellbeing and Mental Health. Presentation by Associate Professor Jo Barraket The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies Jo.barraket@qut.edu.au. Aims. A definition and review of social enterprise activity

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Social Enterprise for Wellbeing and Mental Health

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  1. Social Enterprise for Wellbeing and Mental Health Presentation by Associate Professor Jo Barraket The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies Jo.barraket@qut.edu.au

  2. Aims • A definition and review of social enterprise activity • A quick look at the health and wellbeing impacts of community-focused social enterprises

  3. Defining social enterprise (from FASES) • Social enterprises are organisations that: • Are led by an economic, social, cultural, or environmental mission consistent with a public or community benefit; • Trade to fulfil their mission; • Derive a substantial portion of their income from trade; and • Reinvest the majority of their profit/surplus in the fulfilment of their mission.

  4. Types of Social Enterprise • Charitable trading ventures • Cooperative and community-owned businesses • Intermediate Labour Market enterprises • ‘New start’ social enterprises

  5. Industries in Which Social Enterprises Operate

  6. Main Mission of Participating Social Enterprises

  7. Targeted Beneficiaries

  8. Barraket and Archer Study • Looked at impacts of community enterprise on individual and collective wellbeing • Based on: • Literature review • Online survey (N=66) • In-depth interviews with 10 enterprises (N=21) • Case studies of 4 enterprises • Workshops with 22 practitioners

  9. Findings • Economic participation • Most strongly emphasised • Individual participation through training and employment creation or bridging • Area participation through retention of services, employment and economic flows in local economy • Prevailing theme: the social context for economic participation • Tension: market demands vs member/participant needs

  10. Findings (cont’d) • Social Participation • Strong emphasis on bridging social capital. There has been a whole lot of social benefit out of it from a whole series of people involved; there has been a series of networks developed between young people and older people…we had a number of working bees where people; the kids who worked on their part of the project and the people who had worked in [the theatre] 30 years ago, were in the same place at the same time, so that interaction was really good. • Emphasis on social dimensions of the day to day of doing business

  11. Findings (cont’d) • Civic participation • Much less evidence of individual civic participation (consistent with European research) • Some evidence of rehabilitation of public/civic spaces by community enterprise

  12. Acknowledgements • 600+ research participants • Social Traders and Westpac Foundation • Victorian Department for Human Services • Victorian Local Governance Association • Dr Verity Archer, Deakin University • Drs Nick Collyer & Heather Anderson, and Matt O’Connor, QUT

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