Keeping House
Sector: Health and Social Care

Keeping House is a Leeds City Council project which aims to encourage the development of social enterprises which offer domestic services to older people and disabled people in the city. I have worked on the project since 2005 and have worked on the following:

• Business support to new start and existing social enterprises.
• Work with the Board to develop and write a business plan for the project.
• Close involvement in putting out to tender the Keeping House Directory including work on including social clauses in the contract, and the use of social impact measurement in contract management.

Charity Bank in the North
Sector: Social enterprise and the third sector

During 2009 I ran a series of workshops aimed at third sector organisations as part of the Bank's Investment Readiness Programme.

The workshop (view slides) helped people to generate and assess ideas for generating income and achieving their social mission.  The exercises in the workshop are designed so that people can do further work themselves - with their staff team or with their Board.

Holme Christian Community
Sector: Social enterprise, Social Care

Bradford Council supported work with HCC in 2009 which included undertaking research to help them to consider new services which they could offer to their local community.

I worked with staff and Board members to help them to assess a number of social enterprise ideas.  I also worked with them to help them to understand Personalisation and Self-Directed-Support - an important policy agenda in their field of work.

The Soil Association
Sector: Local Food, Environment

In January 2010 I delivered a day-long marketing workshop - Grow it and they will come - to a group of Community Supported Agriculture projects, supported by the Soil Association.

I take people through a step-by-step marketing plan, so that by the end of the day they know how to think through their own do-able marketing plan.

Most people I work with have little marketing budget - so I encourage them to think about low-cost ways to market their business - such as this video which I filmed with Swillington CSA.

Vist www.soilassociation.org for more info.