As a long-standing champion for social enterprise, and Action Hampshire was a partner in an EU project called MESSE, aimed at sharing good practice in social enterprise across Europe.
Early in July 2013 we welcomed a group of twenty delegates from MESSE partners in eight European countries, to visit some of Hampshire’s flourishing social enterprises. Eight inspiring examples of social enterprise around the county demonstrated how effective their models can be in answering the needs of communities.
This visit was a great success and the European delegates were very impressed with the variety of social enterprises they saw and the passion of the people involved with them. As one of the delegates said, “It was so inspirational. You must feel very proud of Hampshire”.
We also were able to fund 9 social entrepreneurs from Hampshire to visit social enterprises in Greece, Sweden and Italy to share ideas.
