A comprehensive and detailed template to allow you to develop a business plan for your social enterprise.
Category: Social Enterprise
Impact Evaluation
How to develop and evaluation approach to make sure you are achieving your social aims.
Undertaking Market Research
Some tools, techniques, and types of market research that a social enterprise might use.
Understanding Your Market
How to define, test, and research your market in a meaningful way.
Trading Subsidiary
What is a trading subsidiary and the things to consider about setting one up.
The Social Enterprise Code
A simple example of a code that can be used within your social enterprise.
SWOT Analysis Template
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats analysis tool and how to create one.
Simple Cost Benefit Analysis
How to generate a simple cost benefit analysis when considering spending money in your social enterprise.
Questionnaires And Surveys
Questionnaires and surveys: the differences and how to design them for meaningful results.
Profit and Loss
An introduction to profit and loss, what they mean, how to calculate them, and why they are important.
Problem Solving
An introductory problem-solving technique you can use within your social enterprise.
Legal Structures For Social Enterprise
An overview of common legal structures for social enterprises, at a glance.
Pricing Your Product Or Service
What to consider and how to develop the pricing for your product or service.
Presenting Your Ideas To Others
An introduction to presenting your ideas to others and points to consider.
PESTLE Analysis
What is PESTLE and how to use it to survey the external world in which your social enterprise operates.
Meetings Visioning And Project Planning
A tool to help meetings, visioning, and project planning for your social enterprise.
Managing Conflict
Common causes of conflict and resolution through compromise and problem solving.
Leadership Styles
Example leadership styles that may be appropriate for you and your social enterprise.
Growth Plans
What is a growth plan and what should your social enterprises growth plan contain.
Good Governance
The core principles of Good Governance in any social enterprise or charity.
Gift Aid
What is Gift Aid, who can claim it, what can be claimed, and how to go about registering for it.
Focus Groups
What are Focus Groups and how you can create them for the benefit of your social enterprise.
Fitting With Regional Economic Plans
Why it is important your social enterprises plans and projection fit in with regional economic plans.
Health, Safety, and Environment Risk Assessment
What do I need for Health, Safety and Environment when I first start my social enterprise.
Developing Your Workforce
How to produce a comprehensive plan for the development of a social enterprise’s employees and volunteers.
Developing New Products Innovation
What factors you need to consider when developing new products for your social enterprise.
Developing Digital Capabilities
What digital capabilities does my social enterprise need, and what do I need to consider?
Developing A Marketing Strategy
How to develop a Marketing Strategy that is appropriate for your social enterprise.
Decide On A Bank Account
What to think about when setting up a bank account for your social enterprise.
Creating A Positive Culture
Understanding your social enterprise’s culture, how to shape it and the factors that influence it.
Collaboration
What is collaboration and the behaviours and skills to achieve it in your organisation.
Cash Flow
How to work out your cash flow, and why it’s important to understand it.
Break Even Point
How to calculate the point when your enterprise will reach the break-even.