Social Enterprise Growth Awards – Open Now

Just a quick post that I think a number of you will be interested in.

The Santander Social Enterprise Growth Awards are open now. If you meet the criteria you could be awarded £5k for developing your enterprise.

Criteria as we know it:

  • Organisation must be a social enterprise
  • Organisation must be West Midlands based for this fund [there are usually other regions open at the same time, so check your local area if you are from outside WM]
  • Organisation must have a turnover of less than £100k
  • Organisation must be trading and less than two years old
  • organisation must work directly with the community in one of the following areas:
  •            improving social inclusion
  •            supporting disadvantaged people
  •            creating a greener environment

Download the guidance here!

Download the application form here!

One more thing, good luck!

From Grant Reliance to Trading

Had a very interesting day today at the #fairsharetrustawayday where I presented on social enterprise and ran a short workshop for those who are looking toward trading as a route to independance and sustainability, which made me think it was worth sharing some recent case studies of our work with voluntary and community organisations and charities.

The first one click here looks at business planning, project management, in-house consultancy and training with the Disability Resource Centre

The second click here looks at market analysis, business planning, community enterprise and income generation

I hope that some of you find them useful.