United Kingdom
UK and Turkey · statistics to 2024–25 · policy framework at end-2025 · policy desk-coded
Dimensions
| Dimension | Score | Rank /45 | UK/TR | EU-27 | Indicators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political | 81.1 | 7 | 57.5 | 71.5 | 7 / 8 |
| Economic | 72.3 | 7 | 53.0 | 62.8 | 13 / 20 |
| Legal | 75.7 | 13 | 49.6 | 63.8 | 7 / 12 |
| Institutional | 74.7 | 5 | 66.6 | 61.9 | 10 / 16 |
| Financial | 42.8 | 31 | 59.5 | 71.0 | 3 / 7 |
| Composite | 69.3 | 11 | 57.2 | 66.2 | 40 / 63 |
Indicators = scored now / in the full SEI matrix. Ties share a rank.
Composite, 2015–2024
Same goalposts every year. Legal and financial scores are held at their single readings, so change comes from governance, social and labour statistics, firm demography and early-stage entrepreneurship.
Social-enterprise policy and legal framework, end-2025
| SE strategy / action plan 1.2.1 Scotland's Social Enterprise Strategy 2016-2026 and Social Enterprise Action Plan 2024-2026 (devolved); no UK-wide SE strategy · source | 2/3 |
| Institutional structure & dialogue 1.2.2 DCMS (civil society and SE policy, SE statistics); Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies (Companies House/DBT); Scottish Government with Social Enterprise Scotland as funded national intermediary · source | 2/2 |
| Social clauses in public procurement 2.3.2 Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012; Procurement Act 2023 (ss.32-33 reserved contracts for supported employment providers and public service mutuals); PPN 002 (2025) · source | 2/2 |
| Official SE definition 3.1 DCMS official definition used in 'Social enterprise: market trends' statistics (originating in the 2002 government SE strategy) · source | 1/1 |
| Legal recognition of SEs 3.2.1 Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004, Part 2, and CIC Regulations 2005 (Community Interest Company) · source | 1/2 |
| SE support ecosystem 4.3.6 Just Enterprise (consortium of 11 agencies, Scotland), Firstport, Social Investment Scotland; Better Society Capital social-investment market (England) · source | 2/2 |
| EU funds mobilised for SE 5.1.1 none (post-Brexit) | 0/2 |
| Dedicated national funding 5.2.2 Dormant Assets Scheme (England strategy 2025: GBP 87.5m for social investment); Better Society Capital; Scottish Government funding for Just Enterprise (GBP 4.75m, four years from 2023) · source | 2/2 |
Policy composite 77.1 of 100 (mean of the eight codes). The UK has no general SE law but a mature CIC legal form (37k CICs), a strong social-value procurement regime (2012 Act, Procurement Act 2023 reserved contracts, PPN 002) and dormant-assets social investment; dedicated SE strategy exists only at devolved level (Scotland 2016-2026).
Cite this profile
Social Entrepreneurship Observatory & SENIC. (2026). United Kingdom: SEI 2026 country profile (provisional edition, version 0.9.1). Social Entrepreneurship Index. https://seindex.org/countries/united-kingdom/