Slides from a presentation at City Business Library on 01.03.17

1. Starting a Social Enterprise
David McGlashan
@davemcglashan

2. About you

3. About SSE

4. What is a social enterprise?

5. What is a social enterprise?
• Have a clear social and/or environmental mission set out
in their governing documents
• Generate the majority of their income through trade
• Reinvest the majority of their profits
• Be autonomous of state
• Be majority controlled in the interests of the social mission
• Be accountable and transparent

6. Social enterprise in the UK
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7. Some examples…

8. Social enterprise in the UK (stats from SEUK)
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9. So, you want to start a social enterprise…

10. Questions to ask yourself

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Legal structures

12. Research and Pilot…

13. Get some funding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7E_MGpiIK4&index=14&list=PLVhUhz-
Qiypq2OOu4ugwiNktdyNBKOuc4&t=10s

14. Gift Economy Grant Funding
The Income Spectrum
Donor
(Unrestricted)
Funder
(Restricted with
agreed outputs /
outcomes)
Asking Earning
Source: This is a modified version of NCVO’s ‘Sustainable Funding: Across the income spectrum’ available at:
http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/uploadedFiles/NCVO/What_we_do/Sustainable_Funding/About_SFP/Income_Spectrum.pdf
Open Market
Consumer
(B2C sales)
Intermediary
(Loans / bonds /
equity finance)
Social Investment
Philanthropy
Donations
Corporate
Giving
Structured Market
Purchaser
(B2B sales)
Contracts
Commissioned
goods and
services
Borrowing

15. Some places to start

16. Challenges

17. Some that we encounter
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18. Some solutions
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19. A few case studies
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25. How SSE can help
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26. Questions