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How does Collaborative Communities support Social Enterprise development?
Support for existing organisations
Social Enterprise is a concept, a way of doing business whilst achieving social aims. It is not appropriate in all circumstances but for some organisations it can deliver huge benefits allowing you to be innovative, flexible and independent and improve the quality of services. Our experienced officers can help your organisation to decide whether the social enterprise model is appropriate for you. We can help you to move away from grant and towards trading and understand the implications for your organisation.
Support to set up a Social Enterprise
The Collaborative Communities Project can support groups of individuals with an idea for a social enterprise. We can help you to decide whether it is workable and if so to get the idea started. Our advice and support can cover areas such as; clarifying the social objective, establishing how to generate income and how much you need, identifying who the enterprise should involve, selecting the most appropriate legal structure.
Support for public sector bodies
Our development officers based in the four local authorities of Neath Port Talbot, Swansea , Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire can help public sector bodies, such as Local Authorities and the Health Board, to understand what role social enterprise can play in the delivery of public services.
Potential opportunities and benefits for the Local Authorities:
- Surpluses can be reinvested (ring fenced budgets)
- Council’s can retain assets
- Independent organisation’s can attract external funding and act as partner with authority bidding
- Financial savings through taxation
- Jobs can be retained and kept local
- Ideology fits with council commitment to services, employee empowerment and customer focused service provision
Do you have a service that you think would benefit from being delivered as a social enterprise?
Do you think involving social enterprise in service delivery can improve quality and efficiency?
We bring business skills and knowledge of social enterprises that have been set up to deliver public services throughout the UK .
We can also advise on the process for setting up a social enterprise and facilitate workshops for staff to explore the role that Social Enterprise can play.
