About EDW
EDW is a social enterprise which has evolved from the long-established enterprise support charity, Wandsworth Youth Enterprise Centre (WYEC). EDW is part of the Wandsworth Youth Enterprise (WYE) Group. The EDW team has been delivering cutting-edge enterprise support in London for 20 years and, for the past 12 years, has provided enterprise development advice and support to other organisations in the UK and internationally.
EDW takes a holistic, practical and sustainable approach to enterprise development. We provide a unique and integrated range of services which support the development of an enterprise culture within disadvantaged and marginalised communities.
Unusually, EDW’s team are practitioners in the field – delivering on the front line – as well as providing consultancy, research, training, capacity building support and advice to organisations and agencies around the world.
Our work is therefore informed by direct ‘hands on’ operational experience and technical expertise. This is reinforced by experience of, and sensitivity to, wider policy and other issues. EDW’s support model has operated effectively in many environments which are different geographically, politically, economically and culturally.
As well as working in the UK, we have worked extensively across the emerging and transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe, including Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. We have also worked in Mediterranean countries, including Greece and Spain. EDW is currently working with organisations in the UK, Europe, Africa, the ASEAN region and the Caribbean.
"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking."
Anita Roddick (1942 - 2007)