Case Studies, Support Tools and Resources
Business Support Knowledge Cards
These cards define and explain a number of key Business Support areas, summarising the challenges and insights from the National Learning Projects, and detailing where to find more information:
Case Studies
Leadership Development
- Emerging Social Enterprise Leader - Dr Birgit Kehrer, ChangeKitchen CIC
- Emerging Social Enterprise Leader - Jacinta Costello, Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
- Emerging Social Enterprise Leader- Keith Edmonson, Lambeth Council
Social Franchising
Combined Project Updates (by thematic area)
Produced as part of a Knowledge Sharing Workshop
- Impact assessment
- Scaling-up
- Peer-support
- VCS support
- Rural support
- Business Development
- Networks
- Knowledge Management
National Knowledge Management Programme
- Managing and developing the Social Enterprise Mark: a joint venture between RISE and SEC
- Effective Knowledge Management practice in the social enterprise sector
- The Outcome Assessment for Social Enterprises (OASES) project
- The 'Growing your Social Enterprise' summer school
- Catalysing Consortia: Consortia Action Team supporting social enterprises in the North West
- Selling Added Value: training on Social Return on Investment (SROI) for social enterprises
- SEASON: Supporting Social Enterprise Advisors in the South East
- Social Enterprise East Midlands: Multiplying Social Change Project
Other Capacitybuilders' Projects
- The Better Project: a business support project from the South East which focuses on impact assessment
- Social Enterprise North West's peer-to-peer support project: Capacitybuilders funding aids creative solutions on Merseyside
- Social Enterprise North West's peer-to-peer support project: enabling social enterprises to share successful ideas
Investing in Social Enterprise Expansion (I-SEE) Programme
- Redevelopment of the SETAS website: the journey so far
- The Plunkett Foundation: Improving support for community owned shops
- Expansion of the School for Social Entrepreneurs through social franchising
- The development of the Micro Coaches peer support programme
- REalliance: Third Sector resource efficiency services consortia development
Key Challenges and Insights - The Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Business Support Projects
On the 12 July 2010, Social Enterprise UK ran a free one-day workshop which brought together delivery partners from a wide range of Capacitybuilders and Big Lottery funded social enterprise business support projects. The project portfolio encompasses a number different of different social enterprise support themes - Scaling-up, Impact Assessment, Networks, Peer Support, Knowledge Management and Business Development.
The event allowed the project managers and other stakeholders to learn about projects being delivered in similar geographical and thematic areas, allowing them to share valuable knowledge and experience (on the successes, challenges, key learning and affect on beneficiaries) and find key contacts for future collaboration.
Over the next few months we will look in more depth at the different business support themes and analysing some of the information collated to date. Some common challenges have been identified by the projects and faced across all the themes, and these have been highlighted here.
If you have any feedback or suggestions on these resources, please email craig.carey@socialenterprise.org.uk, or holly.brereton@socialenterprise.org.uk.
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