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The UK is home to over 130,000
social enterprises, each trying

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to have an impact on our nation.

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The BCG UK Social Enterprise
Award seeks to elevate the most

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innovative and exciting social
enterprises in the UK.

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It has been a privilege to meet
some of the UK's most impressive

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social entrepreneurs and hear
about the impact they're driving

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in the fields of health,
education and social mobility.

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Nesta wanted to support the
Social Enterprise Award because

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we are a charitable foundation
with the sole objective to

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support innovation that can have
a positive social or

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environmental impact.

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And we think this prize, through
the support that BCG can offer,

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can genuinely transform the
trajectories of the companies

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that they're working with.

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From our perspective at the
Cambridge Centre for Social

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Innovation, we need more spaces
and discussions and awards such

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as this to raise the profile of
scalable social enterprises and

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to support and nurture more
social innovation, more social

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impact.

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And so I'm very pleased to
announce that Tessa Jowell Brain

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Cancer Mission [is our winner].

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For us, this award will mean
that we can think really hard

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about how to go deeper for
patients with a brain tumour in

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terms of providing them
equitable access to research,

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treatment and care.

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And also to start thinking about
rolling out our model to cancer

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patients with other hard to
treat cancers.