Introductory Pack on Funding and Finance: Guide to Trading

This guide provides a starting point for voluntary and community organizations that want to generate income through trading activities. It was produced by the Sustainable Funding Project of NVCO for the Finance Hub, and published in 2006  DOWNLOAD

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Serving the social economy

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This paper was published in the Social Enterprise Journal, Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2006  DOWNLOAD

This paper was presented at the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Development conference at Surrey University in 2003  DOWNLOAD

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This article was published in Regeneration and Renewal in 2002, and provides an interesting, historical perspective on the emergence of social enterprise in the UK.  DOWNLOAD

Equity finance for social enterprises

Social Enterprise— so what’s new?

Defining social enterprise

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The social enterprise numbers game

The government claims there are at least 55,000 social enterprises in the UK. But are their figures to be believed? This article scrutinizes the evidence used to arrive at this estimate. A version of this article first appeared in the Social Enterprise Magazine, Issue No. 57, May 2007 DOWNLOAD

 

This article, published in Society Guardian on 12 September 2007, was written in response to the government’s consultation document which proposed the creation of a £20 million risk capital fund for social enterprises. DOWNLOAD

Fatal attraction