About EQUIPE

EQUIPE was funded from mid 2002 to the end of 2005. Our aim was to bring childcare, playwork and social enterprise together to provide better services for communities by strengthening the childcare/playwork sector’s ability to provide a comprehensive, high quality service that meets the needs of the community, and improves the quality of the sector’s jobs.

With Equal funding we have created a partnership of organisations that are carrying out new activity to:

• improve the services they provide by sharing knowledge and good practice on the social economy
• drive the creation of sustainable social enterprise in the sector nationally
• carry forward the professional development of the workforce

We aim to assist people who provide or want to provide services for children and young people - developing sustainable businesses and community enterprises. We will do this with technical support from organisations already providing advice and guidance to the social economy and use its network of established partners working at the neighbourhood level to engage with communities, facilitate the development of their business plans and strengthen infrastructure for providing services in the sector.

For information on our funding programme and key partnership themes click on the links below:

• EQUAL
• Equality & Empowerment
• Social Enterprise
• University of Gloucestershire
• Transnational Partnerships
• Evaluation