Helping you develop your ideas.

Join this interactive training session delivered by The Circle to better understand social enterprise models and legal structures, and help you develop your ideas into a practical outline business plan. In this session, you will learn from using practical examples, group discussions and exercises relevant to early-stage social enterprises.

Key topics:

Understanding social enterprise and the balance between social impact and financial sustainability.

Exploring legal structures, including CICs, charities and community benefit organisations.

Choosing an appropriate structure based on purpose, governance, income and funding opportunities.

Defining the social or community need, target beneficiaries and proposed solution.

Identifying customers, beneficiaries, competitors and potential income streams.

Developing the key elements of a business plan, including objectives, delivery, marketing and financial considerations.

Practical activity: Participants develop a one-page business plan outlining their idea, intended social impact, target market, delivery model and next steps.

Learning outcome: Participants will understand the main social enterprise models and legal structures and leave with a clearer business idea and a framework for developing a business plan.

The Circle, founded in 2016, is an award-winning Community Interest Company with a More Than Profit® ethos. As a training deliverer, The Circle will draw on its own experience of operating social enterprise hubs and developing community services to bring the topics to life.

This opportunity is brought to you by TSI Dundee. The Third Sector Interface for Dundee is working alongside The Circle and partners to bring a series of training session to support the grow and development of social enterprise in Dundee. for more information, please contact dundeetsi@dvva.scot.

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