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Social Enterprise Support

Everything we do is in partnership with you, bespoke to fit your needs, using our knowledge of social enterprise and community work. There are many tools in our toolbox, some of which we list here, but just ask if you need something you can’t see and if we can’t do something we know someone who can.

Needs

Helping you to understand your customers, exploring how to provide the best product or service.

Higher Purpose

Exploring your Aims and Objectives so that they give a focus to your outcomes that meet the needs.

Method

Developing bespoke monitoring systems that measure at all levels.

Indicators

Making visible the things that keep you on track and help you to show progress.

Evaluation

Enabling you to demonstrate your outcomes and learning as you move forward.

Business set up and development

Bespoke support to help you set up and grow your business with confidence

Capturing your vision – finding your Vision and Mission Statements
Support to set up CIC – setting up your Articles of Association and the CIC36
Governance guidance
Getting to grips with Directors’ purposes and meetings
Production of staff or business handbooks
Incorporating volunteers in your team

Showing your social profit

Making it simple to measure and shout about your achievements

Planning for Business, Projects and Activities to highlight expected Outcomes
Bespoke monitoring of outcomes to show social profit or social impact
Optimising events and workshops
Support with funding bids – identifying expected outcomes and methods for monitoring
Impact assessments
Support to write your annual CIC34 for Companies House

Back office support & Virtual PA

Giving you helping hands to do those tasks you are struggling to do

Virtual PA for tasks you need a hand with
Computer graphics and photo editing
Production of presentations and visual aids
Production of training materials
Production of staff development materials

Bespoke Training

Support designed around what you or your colleagues want to learn

Understanding planning and setting measurable objectives
Use of social media
Excel support to do the things you need to do
Basic computer use for your everyday office needs

Promotion

Support to get your message out

Promote you on social media
Promote you through our networks
Help build connections
Work in partnerships

Website Design

Access to socially minded website designer

Custom WordPress Website Design
Optional E-Commerce functionality
Optional SEO bolt-ons
Optional Google My Business listing set-up