On Thursday 12 July, at the Espace Pierre-Castagnou in Noyelles-sous-Lens, Dominique Soyer, Managing Director of Maisons & Cités Soginorpa, and Bruno Delcampe, Director and founder of the association SOS Entrepreneur, signed a multi-annual partnership agreement.
 
Maisons & Cités Soginorpa has decided to support the initiative begun by the association SOS Entrepreneur which provides owners of SMEs in serious difficulty with emergency support, helping them to find innovative solutions to save their business.
Through this new agreement, Maisons & Cités Soginorpa will take part in SOS Entrepreneur’s solidarity fund for 3 years. The partnership between the two entities will facilitate access to the SOS Entrepreneur service for any suppliers of Maisons & Cités Soginorpa that are interested.
The partnership is part of the social and environmental responsibility approach adopted by the leading social housing entity in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Maisons & Cités Soginorpa also hopes that the scheme will contribute to maintaining a dense business network in the region.
 
SOS ENTREPRENEUR:
SOS Entrepreneur is a non-profit association created in March 2011 to help SME owners in great difficulty to get emergency help and find innovative solutions to save their business. SOS Entrepreneur has set up a Solidarity Fund that, under certain conditions, can provide an interest-free reimbursable loan, contributing up to 80% of the cost of this emergency help. In June 2012, SOS Entrepreneur was awarded the EDHEC 2012 Socially Responsible Business Award.
www.sos-entrepreneur.org – a confidential telephone line available 24h/24: 06 15 24 19 77
For more information about Bruno Delcampe, founder of SOS Entrepreneur

MAISONS & CITÉS:
The group Maisons & Cités is the largest social housing entity in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region and one of the biggest in France. Managing around 62,000 housing units, it covers all aspects of housing. As a privileged partner of local authorities, it is involved in urban design and renewal schemes, and employs 890 people.
Maisons & Cités Soginorpa represents a considerable chunk of the mining basin’s economy as it annually invests over €150 million in renovation work and refurbishment, as well as almost €80 million in new buildings, contracting work out to local firms in the civil engineering and building sector.