Resources

Our Social Enterprise Toolbox offers guidance and tools to help you set up and run your social enterprise.

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This comprehensive 60 page guide is written for a business leader at any stage of running their social enterprise as its intention is to help you undertake a considered and structured analysis of how well you are planning and managing your business.
The guide provides guidance, inspiration and thoughtful questions to help you plan and shape your business strategy for now and in the future. Questions are presented within each Section Checklist to help the reader apply the guidance to their own particular situation.

The guide covers the following topics:Communicating Your BusinessCustomers, Products & ServicesMarket Research, Marketing & SalesLeadership and ManagementMeasuring Your ImpactDeveloping Your TeamBusiness FormalitiesBusiness GrowthFinancial Planning and Raising Investment

As you work through each of the sections you will start to prepare all of the information you need ready for your annual business strategy, business plan, funding applications, internal team manual and even client proposals.

The Social Enterprise Toolbox is written by Heather Black (nee Wilkinson), a specialist consultant and coach in social enterprise with guest experts providing expertise in a couple of the sections.

Economic Change worked in partnership with Striding Out CIC to launch the Toolbox and it invests the income generated into furthering the social missions of the two organisations.