Who are we?

Elixir Foundations CIC, established 2008 as a Social Enterprise dedicated to creating opportunity for vulnerable adults. Elixir target groups include people recovering from addiction, ex-offenders and the long-term unemployed. Elixir CEO, Ben Donnelly understands first hand the barriers faced to rebuilding lives, families, careers and communities, having overcome his own addiction to drugs and alcohol.

Elixir Foundations Community Interest Company is a social enterprise with a commercially sustainable business model.  We improve the lives of volunteers whilst offering high quality services to local businesses, in a way that maximises positive impact on the local community and environment.

In our first year of trading, Elixir Foundations has achieved significant growth and success, which has been recognised by Senior Investment manager for UnLtd, Patrick Shine:

"For the last 3 years I have helped high potential social entrepreneurs across the UK to scale their organisations and impact. In my experience, Elixir Foundations CIC and the group of social enterprises is exceptional in their speed of growth and I am confident it is the fastest growing social enterprise in the North of England at the present time."

Elixir success was also recognised during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2008, where Chief Executive, Ben Donnelly, received the Future 100 Entrepreneurs Award.

We are diverse in our commercial services providing waste management, recycling, and property improvement and maintenance services.  Elixir has saved over 1000 tonnes of UPVC from landfill and over 7000 tonnes of Co2 emissions from going into the atmosphere.

Passionate about creating opportunity through real training and employment, Elixir's commitment to social change and sustainability has seen the development of highly qualified property services team who successfully completed a pilot project with Connaught PLC and One Vision Housing.  The team is based around Future Jobs Fund people from the Sefton area. 

Development and growth of property services with housing organisations and councils are essential to providing quality work based training and employment opportunities to our target client base of the homeless, recovering addicts, ex-offenders and long-term unemployed.