Hon Jo Goodhew
Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector
9 December 2016 Media Statement
Government takes next step in supporting social enterprise
Community and Voluntary Sector Minister Jo Goodhew has today released the Government’s response to the report Social Enterprise and Social Finance: A Path to Growth, which outlines a range of actions designed to support the continued growth of the social enterprise sector.
“I’m excited to release the Government’s response to the Path to Growth report, and continue our support for the social enterprise sector,” says Mrs Goodhew.
As part of the Government response to the report, a cross-agency working group has been formed to coordinate different
public sector agencies and engage with external organisations. The core members of the group are:
• The Department of Internal Affairs;
• The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment;
• Te Puni Kōkiri; and
• The Treasury.
The work programme includes determining an approach to producing data on social enterprise, overviewing funding for
capability-building services, actions to encourage investment, and encouraging participation in the September 2017
Social Enterprise World Forum in Christchurch.
Social enterprises are organisations that trade as a business to support their social or environmental mission.
“In October 2016, I launched the report of the Strategic Group on Social Enterprise and Social Finance, and indicated
that the Government’s response would follow,” Mrs Goodhew says.
“The 2014 Government Position Statement on Social Enterprise, outlined the Government’s commitment to facilitate further
growth of the social enterprise sector, and we are progressing that with a coordinated Government approach.”
The cross-agency working group will report to the Regional Economic Development Ministers’ Group on progress with the
work, including additional actions still under consideration.
The Cabinet paper endorses the Strategic Group’s vision of ‘flourishing social enterprises and a dynamic social finance
market’.
The Government response and associated documents can be found atwww.dia.govt.nz/cvs.