About Choose Suffolk
At Choose Suffolk, we're working hard to enhance and sustain the county's prosperity by putting Suffolk on the map as the premier destination in the UK for business, investment and tourism. As a countywide public and private partnership we're able to offer a unique perspective and create an important bridge between these two sectors to offer practical solutions.
The Choose Suffolk Inward Investment team delivers a comprehensive system of support to businesses relocating to or expanding in Suffolk. Working alongside our partners in the commercial sector, we are able to provide a broad range of essential information, all housed within a central online system. Choose Suffolk works together with the Suffolk Chamber, Haven Gateway, Business Link East and East of England International we have proved highly effective in promoting Suffolk as a county where business mixes with pleasure. Coupled with our Inward Investment service this has led to record years of investment in Suffolk creating and safeguarding numerous jobs.
Choose Suffolk is the home of the Suffolk Tourism Partnership, established in 2003, the Choose Suffolk Tourism Partnership is a membership-based organisation delivering destination marketing, training and networking opportunities. We have over 500 members and work to increase the economic value of tourism to Suffolk – currently estimated at £1.6 billion per year and employing some 30,000 people across 2000 businesses.
Our online statistics platform, Suffolk Observatory, continues to go from strength-to-strength, and currently reaches an impressive 4,500-registered users. And, for the first time in its history, it now boasts 100 datasets.
Social enterprises are businesses driven by a social or environmental purpose. As with all businesses, they compete to deliver goods and services. The difference is that social purpose is at the very heart of what they do, and the profits they make are reinvested towards achieving that purpose. Well known examples of social enterprises include The Big Issue, Jamie Oliver's restaurant Fifteen, and the fair-trade chocolate company Divine Chocolate.
The government defines social enterprises as businesses with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners.
As a Social enterprise Choose Suffolk exists to enhance and sustain the social and economic prosperity for the county of Suffolk. We do this by working in close collaboration with private, public and third sectors partners, governed by a voluntary board of Directors representing a broad cross section of the business community and with a non profit distributing constitution.
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