Community Micro-enterprises
Small businesses providing care and support to local people.
“Local support for local people”
Small businesses, also known as Community Micro-enterprises or CME offer a wide range of care and support services, such as personal care (for example helping someone to get washed and dressed), cooking, cleaning, shopping, trips out or creative activities, learning life skills within our community or workplace support to be able to work. All services help people continue to live independently.
Community Micro-enterprises are small businesses with between one and eight full time equivalent workers and must be independent of any larger organisation. They are usually set up by local people to support people in the community. Their size means that they can provide individually tailored support to meet the person’s social care need.
A project ran from April 2022 to March 2024, supported by Community Catalyst to increase the number of these small social care related businesses in Worcestershire. Community Micro-enterprises (or CME’s for short) are small businesses run by local people. The CME's help people to remain living independently in their own home, increase the choice of activities and support in locations across Worcestershire.