Award for Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise

Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise was awarded the prestigious Social Enterprise Mark at a ceremony held at Plymouth University during Global Entrepreneurship Week. The Social Enterprise Mark is the only independent validation that an organisation is putting people and planet alongside profit. The process for awarding the Social Enterprise Mark is extremely rigorous and it is a real achievement that shows true commitment to improving accessibility to oral health improvement and treatment. A key element of the work of Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise is the development and execution of projects which will have a positive impact on oral health and access to dental treatment. One such project was an oral health round table which was held in Plymouth in November in partnership with Wrigley and Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. The event featured key figures in the world of dentistry, local MPs and other leading thinkers and focused on how local health stakeholders can best work together within the new NHS landscape to encourage people to take better care of their oral health. Another project in its infancy is a collaboration with the Institute of Digital Arts Technology at Plymouth University.