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Social Enterprise Hub Birmingham

The Social Enterprise Hub Birmingham is a new, free support and development service specifically for social enterprises. If your enterprise is (or will be) based in Birmingham, and operates on a not-for-personal-profit basis, reinvesting its surpluses in achieving a social mission, then we can help you.

Social Enterprise Hub draws together expertise from a number of specialist providers to ensure that you can receive free business support of the highest quality, tailored specifically to the needs of social enterprises.

For new-start enterprises, there is a comprehensive support and development package to help you every step of the way - right from the germ of a business idea, to registering the business and starting to trade. This includes:

   • Raising awareness

• Presentations, toolkits and modules that help raise awareness and understanding of social enterprise
• Basic business skills workshops
• Social enterprise visits

   • Identifying & testing the business idea

• Initial assessment of support needs and developing an action plan
• One-to-one support and mentoring
• Intensive, specialist modules on key social enterprise business issues
• Initial feasibility & market research

    • Developing the business and start-up

• Refining the business model
• Business planning & research
• Financial forecasting, costs and projections

• Skills workshops providing coaching in specialist areas such as HR, marketing and financial management
• Blue chip business mentors to help improve leadership & management skills
• Planning for growth, sustainability and ‘full cost recovery’
• Service and product costing and controlling overheads
• Increasing income-generation and adapting to changing market conditions
• Support and advice and training to develop impact measurement techniques using Social Accounting and Social Return On Investment frameworks.