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SES gets thumbs up from Prisk

Business and enterprise minister Mark Prisk has praised the track record of a Sunderland based social enterprise company which currently supports 163 enterprises with a combined turnover of £27.5m.

During a visit to SES’s headquarters in Sunderland he applauded the survival rate of businesses started under their wing and the high rate of women starting and growing successful companies.

With the coalition Government pushing to see more public services outsourced to new companies ran by the workers, SES took the opportunity to outline their success in this area.

On reflection, Mark Prisk said: “I am really encouraged by the success rate as is usually year two or three when things go wrong for small businesses. Your survival rates are really strong and I am also interested in the success you have had in encouraging more women into business.

“Successive Governments have failed to boost the number of women entrepreneurs but you are obviously doing something right.”

For the last 29 years SES has been helping to set up companies owned and ran by the workers and help people set up their own small businesses.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .