About Us
Our Company
Welcome Change is a Community Interest Company (CIC). As a CIC, we are also a ‘social enterprise’, which means we are a not-for-profit business, trading for the benefit of people and the planet.
Our Vision
Our Vision is of a community in which everyone feels included and valued, and where no-one is left feeling isolated or invisible.
Our Mission
Our Mission is to provide safe and welcoming spaces where people can find support, build skills and confidence, improve health and wellbeing and become actively engaged in their communities.
How We've Developed
The Welcome Group started 25 yeards ago, with Welcome charity and has grown from strength to strength to now include two subsidiary Community Interest Companies - Welcome Change and Welcome to Life. Each organisation has its own priorities which fit its structure, but all work together with a common set of values and overall purpose - to improve mental wellbeing and community connection.Welcome
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Championing Social Enterprise
Welcome Change and Welcome to Life are social enterprises, which means they are businesses (enterprises) which earn some of their income from selling goods and services. Social enterprises exist primarily to achieve a social purpose (in our case, improved mental health and community connection) rather than make a profit. Any profit they do make is used to deliver activities to achieve their objectives and, along with some grant funding, keep the organisation running.
At the Welcome Group we believe in social enterprise as a means of tacking societal issues. The work of our two social enterprises complements the work of our charity. The charity cannot trade. The social enterprises cannot take charitable donations. Although each organisation operates independently, we are stronger as a Group, with shared resources and skills. It's a symbiotic relationship!
Welcome Change CIC is a member of the Birmingham and Solihull Social Economy Consortium (BSSEC), a network of organisations committed to growing the West Midlands social economy.