Social Enterprise / Business Plan
Social Enterprise
Key areas for consideration when seeking to establish a social enterprise includes: -
What is the purpose - What are you seeking to achieve by becoming a social enterprise? For example;
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Provides an opportunity for local people to gain employment
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Brings about a positive change to people and communities
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Social benefits – provides facilities to disadvantaged people
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Profits/surpluses are ploughed back into the organisation to further the social, objectives. This could be used to develop new products/services/activities
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People have more ownership
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Provides a formal recognised structure for your enterprise
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Gives the flexibility and freedom of being able to trade commercially whilst still fulfilling social aims
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Social enterprises should:
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Have a clear social and/or environmental mission set out in their governing documents
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Generate the majority of their income through trade
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Reinvest the majority of their profits back into their social objectives
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Not linked to public sector organisation / the State
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Be Managed and developed in the interests of the social mission
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Be open, transparent and accountable to key stakeholders
Business Plan
A business plan is a written document that describes your business. It covers objectives, strategies, sales, marketing and financial forecasts. At Case-uk Limited we aid you in producing a business plan that can help you in moving forward with your business or organisation.
Case-uk Limited will provide you with a single solution support in the production and implementation of your business planning.
This approach will enable you to:
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Clarify your business idea
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Identify your proposed market / sustainability
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spot potential problems
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set out your goals
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measure your progress
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Identify funding and contract opportunities
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Deliver in line with funding requirements that can demonstrate positive impacts