Social Enterprise APPG

First Registered: 29/09/2015 • Last updated on: 06/03/2024

Note: This APPG was last registered on 6th March 2024. The APPG was not registered in the latest release of the 8th April 2024 and may be defunct. Perhaps you are looking for the Women and Enterprise APPG?

To showcase social enterprises and discuss issues important to the social enterprise sector.

Note: All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal, cross-party groups formed by MPs and Members of the House of Lords who share a common interest in a particular policy area, region or country. APPGs have no official status within Parliament.

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Former Members - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits

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Former APPG Members

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Jo Gideon

Chair & Registered Contact

Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent Central

Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024

5 APPG Memberships
Charities and Volunteering , Germany , Small and Micro Business , Whistleblowing , Youth Affairs

Alex Sobel

Vice Chair

Labour (Co-op) - Leeds North West

Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th March 2024

23 APPG Memberships
22q11 Syndrome , Aid Match , Albania , British Jews , Cayman Islands , Global Deforestation , Heritage and Regeneration , Hospitality and Tourism , Human-Relevant Science , Internet, Communications and Technology , Investment Fraud and Fairer Financial Services , Kosovo , Modern Conflict , Montenegro , Music , Net Zero , North Macedonia , Renewable and Sustainable Energy , Sweden , United Nations , Video Games and Esports , West Papua , Zoos and Aquariums

Baroness Thornton

Honorary Secretary

Labour - Life peer

Joined: 29th September 2015
Departed: 6th March 2024

2 APPG Memberships
Curry Industry , Flexible and Family Friendly Working

Lord Adebowale

Vice Chair

Crossbench - Life peer

Joined: 13th February 2019
Departed: 6th March 2024

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Bird

Vice Chair

Crossbench - Life peer

Joined: 12th October 2016
Departed: 6th March 2024

No other APPG Memberships

Earl of Devon

Vice Chair

Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary

Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024

2 APPG Memberships
Heritage and Regeneration , South West

Baroness Barker

Vice Chair

Liberal Democrat - Life peer

Joined: 29th September 2015
Departed: 6th March 2024

4 APPG Memberships
Albania , HIV, AIDS and Sexual Health , Housing and Care for Older People , Sexual and Reproductive Health in the UK

Peter Bottomley

Vice Chair

Conservative - Worthing West

Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th March 2024

25 APPG Memberships
12 Step Recovery , Ageing and Older People , Austria , Carbon Monoxide , Citizens' Rights , Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility , Dark Skies , Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf , Dentistry and Oral Health , Ethnic Minority Business Owners , Extraordinary Rendition , Frozen British Pensions , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Haiti , Immigration Detention , Limits to Growth , Race and Community , Sexual and Reproductive Health in the UK , Small and Micro Business , Social Integration , South Africa , Transport Safety , United Nations , Women in Transport , Zimbabwe