This up-to-the-minute guide edited by top financial journalist Andrew Bibby offers invaluable guidance through the financial puzzle to ensure that your social enterprise thrives! Supported by Triodos Bank, Europe's leading social banking specialist, Climbing the Ladder takes you through the financial steps necessary to make your social enterprise a success.
Climbing the Ladder is written in plain English, and offers practical, real-life assistance to help make your social enterprise a success.
This guide is aimed at social entrepreneurs, by which we mean anyone with an idea for making money and using it to benefit others in some way. The Starting Point Guide offers guidance on what you need to think about when starting out on your journey to set up a social enterprise. It looks at the basic issues facing start-up social enterprises and will help you to summarise your own specific needs in order to figure out the next steps you need to take. Finding business support and advice, legal issues and finance are all covered here to help you become a successful social entrepreneur.
The purpose of this guide is to give you an insight into what marketing is, why you must consider it as part of your organisational planning and how you can achieve maximum results for modest efforts. This publication looks at to consider how you can tailor the knowledge to the circumstances of your social enterprise. Topics covered include:
Case studies effectively illustrate the marketing decisions taken by real-life social enterprises and will offer inspiration and ideas for you to adapt. It also encourages you to think about how the resources you have can be put to best use.
If you are a budding social entrepreneur then this guide will be invaluable in providing an introduction to the many different forms of social enterprise. ‘Social Enterprise in the Third Sector' examines how social enterprises build organisational capacity and associational behaviour that has positive effects on societal development. The different types of social enterprises, including co-operatives, social firms and development trusts are investigated, and case studies help to bring theory to life. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate social issues from economic ones; the requirement to increase competitiveness and productivity need not conflict with issues such as social inclusion. Social Enterprise in the Third Sector is an excellent ‘next-step' after social entrepreneurs have focussed on developing viable business strategies; once the objectives are clear it will then be possible to adopt the appropriate structure from the options presented in this guide.
In recent years, access to childcare has been recognised as one of the essential building blocks to a growing economy. For families and lone parents who need/want to work; good, affordable childcare is essential. For businesses to run smoothly, reliable childcare is a necessity. The Government has responded in a number of ways, such as the National Childcare Strategy and Every Child Matters. The issue this booklet seeks to address is where does social enterprise fit in?
The demand for places coupled with interventions made by the National Childcare Strategy has led to different types of organisations responding to the growing demands of the childcare sector. The focus on the sustainability of new and expanding childcare services, particularly in deprived areas where childcare is not traditionally profitable, has led to interest in the social enterprise model. The purpose of this booklet is to help guide those interested in this sector to use the social enterprise model effectively. The booklet will guide the reader through the social enterprise model, outline the background to the childcare sector, and make suggestions as to how organisations can take the first steps in using social enterprise in their long term strategy.
This guide provides advice about the processes of procurement for social enterprises and information about the Third Sector for Primary Care Trust commissioners. It represents the culmination of the Enterprising Healthcare project, run by SEL and funded by the Department of Health. Designed to be a "toolkit" for social enterprises and PCT commissioners, the guide offers a detailed study of the policy context and outlines findings that have emerged throughout the project. It focuses on practical advice to develop the knowledge and capacity of social enterprises wishing to tender for health services contracts, as well as suggesting steps that commissioners could take to enhance supplier diversity. Dispersed throughout the guide are case studies of social enterprises that are successfully delivering health and social care contracts.
One of the major challenges facing social enterprises and other third sector organisations is communicating the benefits they deliver. As opportunities increase for social enterprises to contract with private and public sector organisations, it has become necessary to find ways of translating this positive effect into demonstrable data to support bids, tenders and funding applications. The SIMPLE approach to social impact assessment combines internal strategic review with outcomes based assessment to help managers of socially motivated businesses to visualise where and how they make positive contributions. By selecting appropriate measures with which to collect quantifiable data users are able to collect and communicate evidence of positive social benefit.
Care Sector: A framework for social enterprise creation
Consortium models for childcare social enterprises
Developing diverse sustainable approaches to childcare
Social enterprise guide to childcare
Social enterprise guide to health and social care for the elderly
Social enterprise guide to housing
Social enterprise guide to recycling
Keeping it legal - legal forms for social enterprises
