Social Enterprise Resource Guide

The Social Enterprise Resource Guide [2007](pdf, 176k) is a quick, first step guide for social entrepreneurs and community groups wishing to mould their social enterprising ideas into a creative but formal structure.

It has been produced by the North Somerset Enterprise Agency, a partner on the NSP. 

Social enterprises are businesses with 'primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally re-invested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners' (Office of the Third Sector).

The guide contains information about

• Support organisations
• Social enterprise and the law
• Funding
• Staff recruitment
• Business planning
• Useful publications

Social Enterprise Resource Guide [2007] (pdf 176k)