This interactive session is designed to explore and understand social value and how it can unlock new opportunities for your VCSE.
Join us for an insightful session exploring the power of social value in the VCSE sector. This workshop will cover key aspects of social value, including:
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These sessions are for anyone who has started to look at their organisation’s social impact and needs some support to move forward. Karen Smith, Director of Turn up the Value, is a social accountant with more than 7 years’ experience in the sector. She can help you navigate the most effective ways to capture your social impact and guide you through processes and tools that will help you shout about the work you do.
These sessions will run as 20 – 30 minute, 1-2-1 appointments. You can book your slot by emailing propergood@boltoncvs.org.uk.
Organisations are often encouraged to ‘diversify their income’ (i.e. not be wholly grant funded). But it can be hard to start thinking about charging for services and support that have always been offered for free. And there can be some challenges around the suitability of an organisation’s legal form in developing such income streams.
This workshop will explore the various benefits of starting to do new things to generate income, as well as ways to spot and avoid any risks that doing so might create.
It will introduce ways to best identify what the most realistic and ‘best’ ideas might be for an organisation to start to generate new types of income, and look at how to make sure that everyone within your organisation understands and supports the decisions related to doing so.
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Join Adrian Ashton – social enterprise and charities consultant for over 15 years – to explore cash flow forecasting for your social enterprise.
The key to operating a successful social enterprise is a diverse and robust model of income generation; including trading, investment and some grant funding. Key to developing that model is a solid plan – a cashflow forecast.
Investors and funders alike need to see that your business has a forecast that makes sense – Adrian can talk you through the best approach to achieving this, ensuring your forecast complements and builds on your business plan.
This will be a small group workshop, providing lots of opportunity for chat, both with Adrian and other social enterprise peers.
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Have you got a query about your social business or idea? Wondering where to start, who to talk to or what to do next? Then come and have a chat with Karen Smith, Director of Turn up the Value.
This session offers a space to explore ideas and queries with an experienced coach, social accountant, and business owner. There’s no need to book for this, just drop-in to the Business Zone at Bolton Central Library any time between 10am and 1pm.
