“In the Business of Doing Good”
Arthur Guinness Fund – British Council Community Entrepreneurs

Challenge How can your business benefit your community?

Community Development through Community-based Social Entrepreneurship

Launched in 2009, the Community Entrepreneurs Challenge celebrates the legacy of Arthur Guinness . CEC is an annual competition held by British Council and the Arthur Guinness Fund , designed to identify and support social entrepreneurs to inspire a generation of potential change makers.

Within three years of its implementation, CEC has provided capacity building to representatives of 200 selected communities and identified 17 best practices of community enterprises from around Indonesia that have received total seed funding of up to GBP 118,000, impacting approximately 24,000 people.

CEC believes in the value of connecting community entrepreneurs with their counterparts from across Indonesia and also those that are in the East Asia Region and UK. Networks and collaborations develop organically throughout the 1 year duration of the competition.

CEC Wave IV is planned to launch in August 2013, with an increased commitment to further support for women-led social enterprises and community enterprises located in Eastern Indonesia.