Community Sector Trading Resources
This page will be updated with useful links and resources developed by leading practitioners running real examples of successful business opportunities.
The Balanced Scorecard – The Balanced scorecard is a strategic planning and management tool that is used to help align an organisation’s activities to strategic goals and improve communications.
Investment Readiness - Basic investment concepts and ideas on interrogating the business model and resiliance.
Generating Business Ideas PDF guide developed by the DTA. Is there a gap in the market? Is there a market in the gap?
Video Pitches – Organisations pitching their community ventures
Legal Structures – An overview of legal structures presented by Anthony Collins Solicitors
Case Studies
Lister Steps - A community based charitable organisation, set up by parents to address the need for childcare and family support in the Tuebrook area of Liverpool.
Sunlight Development Trust - A community owned and managed charitable organisation that aims to improve health inequity and wellbeing by providing an improved range of social, medical and community activities.
Kivo Ebiz – Kiveton Park and Wales Trust set up an E.bay trading company that benefits worthwhile projects in the community.
The Goodwin Volunteer Doula Project – A voluntary project set up within the auspices of the Goodwin Development Trust. The word ‘doula’ is a Greek word meaning ‘woman servant’ but has now come to mean a woman who offers emotional and physical support to women before, during and after childbirth.
All Saints Action Network – The Workspace - A charitable organisation whose aims are to improve the quality of life for those who live and work in All Saints. The Workspace is a community enterprise owned by All Saints Action Network.
The Millfields Trust – is a not for profit company, set up to enable local people to contribute to the regeneration of Stonehouse in Plymouth. The Trust has good quality business units for rental, offering easy in, easy out leases.
Acumen Development Trust is all about making a difference in the local communities of the North East. Their vision is to achieve social and economic regeneration through learning, employment and enterprise.
