Services to you
As a Co-operative, Community and Social Enterprise Business Support Adviser I can help you with scoping, setting up, starting and growing your business. From feasibility and viability studies, to full business plans and finance strategies, I can help you get going!
Business Support
I can help you devise, design, scope and test your community business proposals to give it the best chance of success.
From early stage ideas, to setting up and starting out, and growing and expanding, I can work with you to support your goals.
As an experienced and skilled business coach, I can help your leadership team excel and deliver on your strategic aims and goals.
Social Finance and Investment
I can help you to find the most suitable and affordable funding and finance for your co-operative, social or community business, including Community Shares.
Advising on governance arrangements, risk management, contingency, resilience, wellbeing and succession planning, I can support you to find the capital you need to succeed and grow.
Are you a Charity or business looking for a Corporate Social Responsibility investment? I can help you to calculate the financial and social return on your investment so you can make the best decision about where to invest your money and protect your Trustees.
Social Impact Measurement
I can help you develop and forecast Social Impact targets to set outcomes milestones.
Assess the impact of your community or social enterprise over a number of years, as evidence of the difference you have made for your clients, including Social Return on Investment auditing.
I can also help Commissioners to develop an impact framework for delivering social impact through contracts and grants.
Growth and Diversification
Support for all the business challenges your co-operative, community or social enterprise is likely to face.
From gaining traction, to managing exponential growth, or downsizing and diversifying, I can help you deal with it all.
Working with entrepreneurs, partnerships, co-ops or Boards of Directors or Trustees, I can get the best from you, and the best for your business.