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Topic: Getting social enterprises right for the voluntary/community sector
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Deborah O'Brien
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Posted on:
25 June 2003 : 12:46:26
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If you can let me have some more detals about your project and what skills you are looking for in your team I will put the word out amongst my contacts. You probably already know this, but it is really important to define what your organisation will be doing before agreeing the legal structure and framework for the organisation...... I wish you every success in your new venture!
Sandy Medway
People Matter
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07 June 2003 : 09:18:36
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I was at the recent conference in Slough on Social Enterprise and came away feeling excited by the possibilities but also burden by the minefield of confusion it generates. Communicating it to my Board of Trustees, some of whom are from the 'old school' of thinking about charity, is proving difficult. We have decided therefore to move ahead by starting a new social enterprise project rather than try and 'convert' our exisiting activities into enterprise. BUT the issue is still about the Trustees being ultimately responsible for the new project and the requirement for slow committee based management by consensus, which does not help the need for quick-thinking and responsive business actions to maximise potential. So we are now seeking to recruit a strategic business-focused team that can work with the Trustees, and find suitable premises and funding to build our business. The aim of this new project is to create jobs - so we will be developing a People Matter Centre for employment, training and volunteering opportunities. If you hear of anyone interested in 'stepping through' this process with us then please contact me by email at:
Nick Wilkie
NCVO
Posted on:
05 June 2003 : 12:06:21
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From a voluntary and community sector perspective I think its about seeing social enterprise not so much as a new sort of organisation but as an additional tool in the box for generating independent income. There are undoubteldy such things as Social Enterprises (i.e. socially oriented organisations generating almost all their income from trading) and the voluntary and community sector may well have much to learn from them. But for the majority I think this is about developing levels of social enterprise activity alongside grants and donations all as part of a mixed economy of funding. Social Enterprise will probably be beyond most but social enterprise activity may well be possible. Put another way, for the voluntary and community sector, is social enterprise better understod as a verb than a noun - an additional tool not a new form of beast?Generating income may not be for all voluntary and communiyt organisations but it is also true that a great many more could earn independent income than currently do. Our website at www.ncvo-sfp.org.uk has some more on this and look too at a great US site - www.socialent.org.
Jeremy Barnes
RAISE
Posted on:
20 May 2003 : 12:00:47
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What needs to happen around social enterprises for them to most benefit voluntary and community organisations and the people they exist to serve?
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