We believe that social enterprises have an increasingly important contribution to make to our communities. We can provide you with support to make that increased contribution a reality.
Social Enterprise, whilst it is not a universal solution, offers important new ways of overcoming the challenges we face in our communities alongside this it provides a welcome disruption to tradition models of delivery that will help us all improve.
Often we find there is a misunderstanding between legal structures and the business model. For us social enterprise is fundamentally a business model; taking an enterprise based approach to deliver a social benefit through one or a mixture of ways; directly through the product or service that is traded, through those involved in its deliver (as with many who use work as a model to develop the skills and confidence of beneficiaries) or through how the income is used.
Although sometimes a specific legal structures will be the best way to do that, we think it's the approach, combined with a primarily social motivation that is most important.
We have worked with a wide range of community and social enterprises from community shops and village halls to on-line advice providers and skills development organisations.
As a social enterprise we can help you with a range of practical support including:
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