Social Business Plans: Social business planning

January 09, 2007

Some good links

Here are some useful links to sites which give information about starting up in business:

SEAS-Online has a number of links to social business planning sites.
Start a Business info from the BBC
Lots of links to other sites from the Channel 4 Being in Business site
The Risking it All site on Channel4.com

9 Jan 2007 15:35:30 | Social business planning

January 19, 2007

Business planning guide

I've just come across this guide from Forth Sector - it was mentioned in this month's Social Enterprise magazine. I haven't had a proper look at it yet but it's aimed at social enterprises and looks pretty comprehensive, so it's worth a look.

Download social_enterprise_business_planning_guide.pdf

19 Jan 2007 14:03:59 | Social business planning

July 03, 2007

Action Plan from Be Cause

I came across an interesting tookit to help you develop your social business idea on Be Cause - a partnership between the social networking site Bebo and Unltd, the Foundation for Social Entepreneurs.

I've only read it through quickly, but it looks pretty good.

3 Jul 2007 13:39:08 | Social business planning

June 10, 2008

Our social business plan template

Here's our social business plan template. Every business will need something slightly different, but it's a good starting point.

If you're good on Microsoft Word, you'll be able to keep the formatting of headings etc, and then automatically update the Table of Contents. If you're not good on Word, just ignore that last sentence and do the best you can!

PDF version of plan: Download sbc_business_plan_template.pdf

Word version of plan: Download sbc_business_plan_template.doc

Spot any mistakes - or got any ideas for improving the template? Please get in touch.

10 Jun 2008 10:14:00 | Social business planning