So, you want to change the world with your business. Brilliant. You’re now in the top 9% of socially-focussed SMEs in the UK. Go you! However, being a social entrepreneur means there are a few extra things you need to think about that non-socents don’t.
Tag: Business Planning
Housing Associations: Is your procurement process adding value? Time to fix it!
As a Housing Association, your procurement processes have the power to create genuine and lasting social change. Chances are, you already have a policy for social value procurement gathering dust somewhere – but are you actually implementing it?
Video : What is a social enterprise?
Social enterprises reinvest the majority of the profits they make back into the business to deliver more of their social or environmental purpose. social enterprises are a way of doing business and not a particular legal structure.
Why would you have a charity and a CIC?
Traditionally, charities used to set up trading subsidiaries (as standard limited companies) where they owned all the shares in the subsidiary. This was in order undertake trading activity that wasn’t part of the charity’s objects/core activities
Guardian: Communities
- ‘Poor floors’: anger over new plans to segregate tower block residents
- We lost more than just music during the year choirs were banned | James Gardiner
- Green homes grant will meet only tiny fraction of target in England
- Lockdown has turned us into spies – and fantasists | Kitty Drake
