Designers are first Norfolk company to get SE Mark

A Norfolk company is celebrating today as it has become the first in the county to be awarded the prestigious Social Enterprise Mark identifying it as a business that trades to genuinely benefit people and planet.

Graphic Design and Print CIC, based in rural North Norfolk, was set up over two years ago as a social firm to provide training and employment for disadvantaged local people, but at the same time provide a quality and professional design and print service to customers.

Director of Graphic Design and Print CIC Stephen Mollison said: “We hope holding the Social Enterprise Mark will identify us as a business that really cares about how it operates and that customers from across the UK will buy from us, confident that we have a proven social benefit”

Jane Taylor, Director of Social Enterprise Norfolk, the local network for social enterprises in the County said: “As the Big Society agenda becomes a reality, more people could be looking to trade with social enterprises. We are delighted that the first one of our 170 members has obtained the Mark and expect others may follow”

Graphic Design and Print CIC are members of Social Firms UK and were named in the RBS SE100 as being one of fastest growing social enterprises in the UK. They are also members of Social Enterprise East of England who supported their Mark application with a £99 bursary.