income generation programme

Over the next two years our programme of activities will include:

Trading and Enterprise

A programme to raise awareness and understanding of social enterprise in VCS (Voluntary Community Sector) infrastructure.
An online and peer-to-peer training programme looking at practical support for community sector trading in greater detail.
A diagnostic tool to help support providers assess the viability of a social enterprise activity.
An accessible guide for support providers and frontline organisations on the tax implications of trading.

A programme to cascade asset transfer expertise to support providers throughout the regions.
A training programme focusing on best practice in the management of community assets.

A ‘train the trainer’ programme to build advisory skills around procurement and commissioning for key support providers, called Winning Bigger Buck for Your Bang.
A series of best practice commissioning case studies.
A Procurement Champions Network or special interest group for experienced commissioning and procurement advisers and support workers.
Research and action learning pilots around how support providers can assist the development of partnerships and consortia for commissioning and service delivery.
Pilot work around benchmarking levels of organisational capacity to assist support providers in advising frontline groups in costing and pricing their bids.

Regional meetings to connect social enterprise support providers, VCS support providers and business advisers.
Consultancy for the organisational development of social enterprise infrastructure.
Roundtable meetings to link leaders from support providers with commissioners to build improved partnerships and mutual understanding.

Download information about all the Income Generation projects.