As of January 2024, Russia has registered almost 11,000 social enterprises. Of these, 7.8 thousand act as IP, 3.2 thousand as legal entities.

" The magnificent annual earnings of social entrepreneurs were more than 102 billion roubles. We have said on several occasions that the social business has a woman's face, the relevant data confirm this: over 70 per cent of social entrepreneurs are women. The Deputy Minister for Economic Development, Tatiana Ilumshnikov, reported the largest enterprises in education (30 per cent), health and social services (23 per cent), culture, sports and leisure activities (17 per cent) " .

Of the total annual earnings, 17.9 billion are IPs, 84.6 billion are legal entities.

Today, more than 82,000 employees work in social business. In addition, young people are emerging among social entrepreneurs, with 147 individual entrepreneurs under the age of 25.

The Foundation " Our Future " notes that there are several trends in social entrepreneurship in 2024.

" For example, we see a trend towards the introduction of new technologies, in particular artificial intelligence, which is already actively applied in biomedicine, IT and social advertising. Social rehabilitation and prosthetic projects will be increasingly developed in the near future. Another trend is the development of supplementary education, especially remote education. The development of domestic tourism is a promising development. More and more businessmen will start to develop labels as the main destination for their products. In addition, new categories may be created in the social business structure through the development of creative clusters, and in the study plans of universities, the training programmes for social entrepreneurship specialists, was reported by Natalia Zvereev, Director of the Future Foundation.

Bashkortostan (617), Lesgorod region (443), Primorsk province (390), Hanty-Mansia Autonomous Region-South (371), Moscow (360), St. Petersburg (273), Volgograd Region (242), Sverdlov region (242), Sverdlov region (242).

The Russian Federation also has a rating of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation following the support of socially oriented non-profit organizations (SONCO) and social entrepreneurship. As a result of 2022, the leaders included the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Hanta-Mansia Autonomous Region, the Southra, Yamalo-Nenetse Autonomous Region, the Yaroslav and Tymen oblast, the Primorsky and the Krasnoyarsk region.

" It is important to note that social business is resilient to crises: about 80 per cent of companies have developed their business for more than three years. High survival was possible, including through support tools - concessional loans, grants, property support, tax preferences " - noted the heads of the Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation.

In Russia, there are a number of support measures for social enterprises under the national project " Maloye and Middle Entrepreneurship " . Thus, social business can receive a grant of up to 500,000 roubles (up to 1 million roubles for the Arctic) for business development. Such entrepreneurs can also obtain micro loans at preferential rates in regional microfinance organizations.

The Social Entrepreneur of the Primorsky Province, Alexandre 40in, is developing a children ' s mining school:

" I received the Social Business Status in 2021. He helped me look at his business on the other side. We're not just a mining school, we're setting up a place for a good family vacation in the winter of the year. Status helped me get the grant I invested in building the school. Also thanks to credit programmes for social entrepreneurs, I received several credits at preferential rates. In addition, I have received training courses at the centre of my business, which have enabled me to conduct my business effectively.

In the regions, tax incentives are available for entrepreneurs working on the simplified tax system. As part of the property support, companies may rent, on a concessional or non-reimbursable basis, office and production facilities, as well as cowarding facilities in My Business Centres.

" In 2016, I established a social service centre for the People of Descent in the Hanta-Mansia Autonomous Region. We provide comprehensive care services for older persons with disabilities, social and labour rehabilitation for young persons with disabilities, and support for PSS participants. Since 2020, our Dear People has annually confirmed the status of a social enterprise. As a result, we have received grant support for the development of our project, we have been provided with a non-reimbursable space, and we have received regular advice from the specialists of the My Business Centre, and the head of the Marina Achmetgalieva Centre has informed us that

In addition, there are some 50 social innovation centres operating as a single window for social enterprises. Here, companies can receive advisory and educational support, assistance in launching projects.

Every year, a " good business " competition is held for social entrepreneurs, organized by the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. The Operator is the State University of Management.

" The competition has been held for the ninth year and has helped to identify best practices in social entrepreneurship. Through the project, we can measure the qualitative growth of social entrepreneurship. This year we received over 3,000 applications, some 900 projects from all over the country went to the regional phase. The applications are now being evaluated by the expert jury, and we've been learning the names of the finalists of the competition in the summer. "

It is worth noting that the share of social entrepreneurship in the region of the total number of social enterprises in the Russian Federation is 0.84%. Total, 92 social enterprises.

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