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 7th May 2025 and may be defunct. Perhaps you are looking for the Women and Enterprise APPG?

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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 Officers - Contact Details - Benefits in Kind - Financial Benefits
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Former APPG Officers
Jo Gideon Portrait
Jo Gideon
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central
Joined: 15th June 2022
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Alex Sobel Portrait
Alex Sobel
Vice Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Leeds Central and Headingley
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th March 2024
6 APPG Officer Positions
Fair Elections , Music , Net Zero , Students , Ukraine , West Papua

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness Thornton Portrait
Baroness Thornton
Honorary Secretary
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 29th September 2015
Departed: 6th March 2024
3 APPG Officer Positions
Media , Parks and Green Spaces , Social, Cooperative, and Community Economy

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Adebowale Portrait
Lord Adebowale
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 13th February 2019
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Lord Bird Portrait
Lord Bird
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 12th October 2016
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Earl of Devon Portrait
Earl of Devon
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 2nd June 2021
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Baroness Barker Portrait
Baroness Barker
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 29th September 2015
Departed: 6th March 2024
2 APPG Officer Positions
HIV, AIDS and Sexual Health , Sexual and Reproductive Health in the UK

No other APPG Memberships

Peter Bottomley Portrait
Peter Bottomley
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Worthing West
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Alex Davies-Jones Portrait
Alex Davies-Jones
Vice Chair
Labour - Pontypridd
Joined: 16th December 2020
Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

John Howell Portrait
John Howell
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Henley
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 24th January 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Harriett Baldwin Portrait
Harriett Baldwin
Vice Chair
Conservative - West Worcestershire
Joined: 24th February 2020
Departed: 11th January 2023
4 APPG Officer Positions
Africa , Nigeria , Opera , Responsible Business

No other APPG Memberships

Chris White Portrait
Chris White
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Warwick and Leamington
Joined: 29th September 2015
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Anna Turley Portrait
Anna Turley
Vice Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Redcar
Joined: 12th October 2016
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Alan Brown Portrait
Alan Brown
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Joined: 29th September 2015
Departed: 31st August 2016
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Caroline Lucas Portrait
Caroline Lucas
Vice Chair
Green Party - Former Member for Brighton, Pavilion
Joined: 29th September 2015
Departed: 31st August 2016
No other APPG Officer Positions

No other APPG Memberships

Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Jo Gideon MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 8131.

Email: jo.gideon.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Liz Minns, Social Enterprise UK, 139 Tooley Street, London SE1 2HZ. Tel: 020 3589 4951

Email: liz.minns@socialenterprise.org.uk

Secretariat:

Social Enterprise UK acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/

Group's Website:

https://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/political-engagement/appg-on-social-enterprise/

Benefits in Kind
Date
20 Jan 2023
Source
Social Enterprise UK
Description
Secretariat   From : 20/01/2023 To : 19/01/2024
Value
£1,501
Date
20 Jan 2022
Source
Social Enterprise UK
Description
Secretariat   From : 20/01/2022 To : 19/01/2023
Value
£1,501
Date
13 Feb 2020
Source
Amey plc
Description
Event & reception
Value
£4,501
Date
20 Jan 2020
Source
Social Enterprise UK
Description
Secretariat   From : 20/01/2020 To : 19/01/2021
Value
£1,501
Date
6 Sep 2018
Source
Social Enterprise UK
Description
Secretariat   From : 06/09/2018 To : 05/09/2019
Value
£1,501

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Social Enterprise APPG