Activities
The income generation workstream will begin its programme of activities by researching and scoping current support provision in order to define a core package of income generation support that we think should be available for all frontline organisations.
Over the next three years our programme of activities will include:
Trading and enterprise
- a programme to raise awareness and understanding of social enterprise in VCS 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
The acquisition and management of assets
- 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
Commissioning, procurement and financial management
- a ‘train the trainer’ programme to build advisory skills around procurement and commissioning for key support providers
- a series of best practice commissioning case studies
- consultancy 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
Developing strategic fundraising
- a cascade training programme focusing on how to build the voluntary fundraising capacity of frontline organisations
Developing and connecting infrastructure
- regional meetings to connect social enterprise support providers, VCS support providers and business advisors.
- 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.
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