SOCIAL ECONOMY DRIVE AWARD WINNER | Birgit Kehrer

W-O-W, W-O-W, W-O-W !!!!!!!!
What a night 🧡💚

It started off with awesome catch ups and a rather lovely photo opp.... and ended with OVERALL CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOCIAL ECONOMY (INDIVIDUAL) award win for our very own Birgit Kehrer 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

We are so very proud of Birgit and utterly delighted to see her passion, hard work and utter determination to change food systems for the better fully recognised and valued.

Charles Rapson, Strategic Lead for Social Economy Growth at West Midlands Combined Authority, introduced Birgit’s award win with some wonderful warm words that are greatly appreciated,

“The winner of this category is someone who has proven her desire for social justice, and

making her customers happy, which I think is a great set of qualifications for a social

entrepreneur. She strongly believes that partnership working is the way forward; she went to

University in Sheffield, Bristol, and Augsburg, and has a BA, Masters, and PhD in Human

Geography” is clear and then it’s a bit unintelligible but along the lines of “and she settled in Birmingham and began her work…”

Team and kindness mean everything to Birgit, as we want to say a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Birgit for simply being incredible and inspiring so many people around her.

Birgit Kehrer said of her award,

“I am very pleased indeed to be receiving the prestigious Overall Contribution to the Social Economy Award. It is wonderful to have the work of the past 17 years recognised.

I started my social enterprise journey believing the world would be better if businesses measured success by more than profit. I have always held the triple bottom line of environment, social impact and financial sustainability as the truest path forward.

Connecting organisations, co-creating solutions and building communities has always been at the heart of my work. The Sustain UnConference is a perfect example. It brings together partners and 200 sustainability specialists across sectors. Moments like that remind me why we do this.”

Enjoy your well deserved #SED2025 Award Birgit 🏆