Dynamix and Llanmadoc Community Shop, two co-operatives in Wales, have been shortlisted for this year’s Social Enterprise Awards.The Social Enterprise Awards is a new competition being run by the Social Enterprise Coalition that aims to recognise and celebrate the work carried out by the most successful social enterprises in the UK. It builds on the Enterprising Solution Awards which has been running for the last ten years and - and which was won last year by the Phone Co-op (pictured above).
Dynamix, based in Swansea, is a worker co-operative that specialises in creative training, facilitation and consultation exercises. It primarily works with children and schools but has also recently been training civil servants.
Llanmadoc is a village shop that was bought by the community when its owners retired in 2007. Like – over 200 villages in the UK, the residents did not want to see a vital service disappear so they formed a co-operative, clubbed together and bought the shop themselves.
Both the co-operatives are in the Welsh shortlist of the awards, the winner of which will be announced during Global Entrepreneurship Week (16-22 November) and the overall winner will be determined subsequently through a public vote.
Also present, in the English shortlist, was Central Surrey Health – an employee owned business with around 650 members who formerly provided nursing and therapeutic services within the PCT.
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