Dublin City Social Enterprise Awards 2021

Dublin City Social Enterprise Awards 2021- is a special online event to celebrate this year’s awardees and to highlight social enterprise development in Dublin City and beyond. The event will feature interviews with the selected awardees, insights from key stakeholders and a keynote address from Clodagh O’Reilly (Former: CEO ReCreate Ireland).

At the event, funding and award trophies specially handmade by PACE will be presented to the selected social enterprises. Each awardee will use the funding towards developing their social enterprise, increasing their impact and benefiting more people and communities across Dublin.

Event Programme: (Subject to change)

09:30 – Event Start

Welcome Address – Lord Mayor of Dublin Alison Gilliland

Keynote Address – Clodagh O’Reilly

Presentation of Awards & Panel Discussion

Closing Address

11.00 – Event End

This event is proud to commission the services of local social enterprise & previous DCSEA awardee:

PACE (Dublin City Social Enterprise Award – 2018 Awardee) to make the DCSEA 2021 Award Trophies

Further Information:

Dublin City Social Enterprise Awards is organised and managed by various stakeholders in partnership such as: Dublin City Council; Dublin City Social Enterprise Committee; Inner City Enterprise, Local Enterprise Office Dublin City and the Department of Rural and Community Development.

The event is part of a series – which represents Dublin’s involvement in the European Commission’s: European Social Economy Regions – 2021 Project. The objective of the project is to build networks of Social Economy and Social Enterprise stakeholders and to raise awareness about the Social Economy at regional and local level. To find out more about ESER 2021, please visit: European Social Economy Regions

Please note: Photographic and video recording will be taken at this event to promote the event and programme. Please refer to our standards on how data is managed at: LEO Dublin City GDPR

Further information about Dublin City Social Enterprise Awards:

The scheme was first established in 2015 through a collaboration between Dublin City Council, Inner City Enterprise (ICE) and the Local Enterprise Office (LEO) Dublin City to provide funding for social enterprises to start and grow in Dublin City. The awards are funded by Dublin City Council and the Department of Rural and Community Development and are managed by Inner City Enterprise.

Now in its seventh year, at this year’s awards ceremony selected social enterprises will be showcased that were selected as winners by an evaluation committee. The programme and competition aims to increase awareness of the important contribution that social enterprises make to building communities, creating employment and developing the skills of the participants who get involved.

Video interviews of previous year’s awardees are available on the LEO Dublin City Youtube channel – Social Enterprise playlist: here