Social Firms UK

Two Social Firms, Frame of Mind  (www.frameofmind.uk.com) and Oxford Wood Recycling (http://www.oxfordwoodrecycling.org.uk/), were listed in Social Enterprise Magazine's June analysis of the RBS SE100 index.  This is the first on-line tool to chart social businesses’ growth and impact measurement. The index enables the growth of key players and emerging markets to be monitored, the rising stars to be discovered and how effectively organisations measure their social impact to be revealed.  The index looks at a new market each month and found the fastest growing companies to be in the employment and training market. Oxford Wood Recycling showed the fourth highest growth at 76%.  Meanwhile Frame of Mind was listed as having a high impact measurement score of 4/5. 

A powerful new online index that charts the growth and impact of social businesses has been launched.  The RBS SE100* Index, run by Society Media in partnership with RBS Community Banking, has been created to enable social businesses to see how their growth and measurement of social impact compares to others’, track emerging markets, and gain knowledge of the sector they work in and their position within it.  The index will be run until 2012.