Harry Elias Partnership LLP bags Social Enterprise Association Sector Developer Award

At the recently concluded Social Collab 2012, a Social Enterprise Association conference held on November 2, 2012 at School of the Arts, HEP received the Sector Developer Award (Bronze category). This Award is given to corporations which have supported the Social Enterprise Association and the social enterprise community at large. By this Award, the Firm is recognised for its contributions in the form of legal services.

Social Collab is an annual conference that gathers together the social enterprise (SE) community and representatives of other sectors in Singapore that are critical to developing a thriving SE sector. This year’s conference theme “Co-creating the Social Enterprise Ecosystem” focused on the global and local trends on how the business and community sectors have interacted together. 

Mr. Philip Fong, Managing Partner, attended the event to receive the Award on behalf of HEP. The Award adds recognition of the Firm’s social responsibility consciousness and follows the Firm’s ground breaking initiatives in the pro bono services sector.

About Social Enterprise Association 

The Social Enterprise Association is an umbrella organization tasked with the role of promoting social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in Singapore, so as to bring about positive social impact and an inclusive community among Singaporeans. It focuses on supporting peer-learning within the social enterprise community, providing capacity-building programmes and business services, and fostering synergistic partnerships among key stakeholders, namely government, businesses and people sector to build up individual enterprises and the sector at large.