Working to increase the capacity of its participating organisations…

Third Thursday is a formal consortium of Social Enterprises. Our aim is to provide a platform for participating Social Enterprises to grow their businesses through collaborative working whilst still holding onto their individual identity.

Third Thursday is a newly formed Enterprise Agency located in Hertfordshire with a selected number of highly credible and award winning social enterprises and mainstream businesses that had the foresight to see the way things were going and spent the last year honing our model. We intend to specialize in developing and supporting social enterprises to participate in the Coalition Government’s as outlined in their paper “Building the Big Society” The document says “We will support the creation and expansion of mutuals, cooperatives, charities and social enterprises, and support these groups to have much greater involvement in the running of public services.”

However as well as specialising in the social enterprise sector we intend to react positively to the Coalition Government’s “Programme for Growth” and in particular “we will promote small business procurement, in particular by introducing an aspiration that government contracts should be awarded to small and medium-sized businesses and by publishing government tenders in full online and free of charge.”

Third Thursday is well placed with the right skills to assist in developing services and programmes locally and are ready to work in partnership in delivering both the “Programme for Government” and “Building a Big Society” and to be a flagship model of how Local Authorities and an Enterprise Agency can be the solution for business growth and development in the coming years.

Our participators are from a variety of backgrounds all with their roots firmly placed in enhancing the community around them. Examples of our wide variety of participators are HCMA, a charity who specialise in working within the public sector, offering training in business, NLP, management and coaching & mentoring. We also have Positive Strides, a film and media training organisation addressing the needs of targeted groups through the creation of structured educational courses based on the production of a film amongst others.

Please use the links on the right hand side of the site to see what our participators have to offer or get in touch now to see how Third Thursday can help your social enterprise to grow.