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Resources

A whole range of documents, guidance and support is available to help you move your enterprise forward.  Take a look at the documents below, or get in touch if you are looking for something in particular.

Guides

  1. Business Planning Guide to Developing Social Enterprise (pdflogo 3,661kb PDF)

  2. Making the Case:  Social Added Value (pdflogo 587kb PDF)

  3. Tendering for Public Sector Contracts (pdflogo 892kb PDF)

  4. Public Social Partnership in Scotland: Lessons Learned (pdflogo 925kb PDF)

  5. The Marketing Perspective (pdflogo 277kb PDF)

  6. Briefing a consultant for the terrified (pdflogo 32kb PDF)

  7. Better Value: Purchasing Public Services from the Social Economy (pdflogo 524kb PDF)

  8. Better Value: The Social Economy Delivering Public Sector Contracts:
    Case studies     (pdflogo 1,819kb PDF)

  9. Guide to Funding and Finance (pdflogo 26kb PDF)

  10. The Social Enterprise Edinburgh Funding Futures Event on 30th September, organised by Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce was fully booked and turned out to be packed with new ideas and stimulating questions. If you want to know:
    • Where to go for new funding and learn more about your own organisation in the process
    • About a bank that is genuinely interested in social enterprise and actually has some ‘money in the bank’ to lend
    • A totally new potential source of investment capital
    Please view the presentations – any questions or comments to Ruari or Maureen will be welcomed.
    funding futures 1.
    funding futures 2.
    funding futures 3.

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