European Social Label - Care to Change the World
What we do
The European Social Label wants to be the catalyst that Sweden and Europe need to solve the biggest problems of our time; exclusion from society.
This should be done by engaging the business community at the local level both in Sweden as well as within the EU and making CSR something more than just paper or donor money for charity.
The European Social Label succeeds in what EU authorities have so far failed to answer, the small business owners' question What's in it for us. In our opinion, this is a reasonable question to ask. Why should a small company set aside time and money for something that is often far outside its own business.
The answer is perhaps as simple as it is obvious: In order to work together with the European Social Label, it will be profitable to work towards reduced exclusion.
Who are we
European Social Label is a so-called NGO, non-governmental organization, member organization without a political agenda based in Sweden and funded by its members. The European Social Label is developed by small businesses and entrepreneurs with a history in the private, municipal as well as the state sector and has together found and succeeded in expressing the shortcomings of the current system.
The European Social Label was created to address a more and more current problem; Exclusion in society. The business is the engine of something bigger than itself and is part of the conglomerate EUSL-Gruppen.
The EUSL Group was developed as an effect of the emerging needs that the business community needs to make it attractive and possible to work with people in isolation and includes e-commerce platforms, financing solutions and training.
Where are we going
Our goal is a Sweden and in the future an EU without exclusion and with a successful integration. The European Social Label has defined exclusion for a person who is over 15 years of age and has been unemployed for at least 30 days. This gives us the opportunity to develop the tools needed to take a holistic approach to how we, together with the business community, can solve the issue of exclusion. European Social Label encourages democracy, diversity and horizontal values and these are our tools to create transparency so that we generate more members who can create a better society faster but also for the outside world to see and perceive our work as reliable and credible, something that will ultimately also generate more customers for our members.
Our journey has only just begun, but we already know that it is an endless journey. Today we have modern tools and a range of services that make it attractive for small businesses to become members, but it may just as well be the case that in a year or a pandemic later, what we know today is outdated. European Social Label is a cutting-edge activity that always adapts and is at the forefront when it comes to change processes. It is together with contemporary tools and classic common sense that we will succeed where authorities and municipalities have so far been bitten.
From here, the European Social Label wants to expand into more parts of the EU and take existing members on the international journey. We want to create both international as well as local platforms to reach out and reach the EU's great multiculturalism to together create locally adapted initiatives to create a better society.
common questions
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Membership has a cost that is based on several factors such as age of the company, number of employees, turnover and more. But perhaps the single most different factor that the European Social Label has implemented is also how much you as a member wants pay. We think that if you want to be involved and support society more, or during a tired month may not be able to participate, we should not be an obstacle.
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At this link which leads to the main page of the European Social Label, you can read about all the services that are included. More services may be added, existing ones may be removed. It is our members who control needs and wishes.
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We have our own training center where members can participate and define the content of the training, with the goal that the student should be as close to becoming employable as possible. Then we have an entrepreneurial program where members can help the participants, both with knowledge but as well as with offers and get them to become customers in the future. Then there is an e-commerce platform for both products, services and recruitment and to it we have attached a financing service that primarily focuses on transnational trade. Finally, there is the inclusive office hotel Social Impact House which are our physical meeting places. Everything is included in the membership fee.
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As long as the European Social Label offers all members the full range of services and products within the framework of the membership agreement, the membership fee is VAT-free. Within the European Social Label, we find no or little use in shoveling VAT back and forth with payments and disbursements to the Swedish Tax Agency, so we took it completely out of the equation. For small and start-up companies, it is also a big obstacle to be out with 25% VAT for months, sometimes up to a whole year.
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Being a member of the European Social Label means in practice two memberships in one. One is in the local activities where you as a member are given the opportunity to network, meet other members, and propose and carry out social initiatives in the community. The second is the international market where, through our help, you succeed if you are the best, not if you have the best offer. An international customer may hesitate to hire you if you can not offer a good payment solution such as an invoice or installment, but then you put yourself in the risk zone for what happens if your customer can not pay after a month? It is not as easy as it may sound and above all it can be costly and time consuming. European Social Label takes care of all this!
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European Social Label has a unique position as we primarily focus on small businesses. It has historically been difficult for authorities to work with small businesses without risking distorting the competitive situation and this is where we come in as a supplement and a support.
We have also taken a holistic approach to what exclusion and integration are and tailored our solutions so that they fit the small businesses in particular. Then it should be said that we specifically do not just turn to companies. Private individuals are also welcome to become members, but we find it difficult to see that our service offering is something that would be attractive to the individual. For private individuals, of course, it costs nothing, other than if you yourself want to be involved and support. Then it may be better to be involved and contribute to a social effort, for example.
The European Social Label focuses on both the local and the international. We see ourselves as something in between authority and companies and we see the EU as our area and would rather talk about EU activities and EU entrepreneurs than that a company should be linked to a country or town. On the other hand, we know that people in exclusion are becoming more territorial and the negative around this we counteract through the presence through our members.
Contact Us
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Phone: 0775 550 500
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