Freer Spreckley is credited with coining the term social enterprise and creating the internal social accounting and audit system, including the financial, social and environmental planning and measurement criteria, which later became known as the Triple Bottom Line. In 1981 Freer wrote the short book 'Social Audit-A Management Tool for Co-operative Working' which introduced the concept more widely. Since then, Freer has worked in international development in 67 countries, advising and training clients in organisational restructuring, trade capacity building, social enterprise management and social economy strategy. In 2021 he produced a new book entitled Essential Social Enterprise.
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Freer Spreckley, Tuesday, 22nd February 2022 - In his new book Freer Spreckley, who was among the first to formulate the concept of social enterprise in the UK in the 1970s, revisits social enterprise's short history and ideas. Here he shares the six values that he believes should define social enterprise.
