This section covers informative and visual materials, that provide educational support for social entrepreneurs. These materials include, but are not limited to books, articles, video materials, infographics and others.
New start-up guide for budding social entrepreneurs
A new guide has been published for those interested in starting a social enterprise, like Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant chain, the Big Issue and Cornwall’s Eden Project. The UK is home to 68,000 social enterprises [...]
Building better lives Social enterprise in schools: a resource pack for teachers
This resource pack provides ideas for discussion, activities and a framework to help you use social entrepreneurship as an engaging project in your school. It is designed to encourage students to develop an awareness and [...]
5 TOOLKITS FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
Summary of Acumen about 5 tool kits for social entrepreneurs. If you’re running a social enterprise, or about to start one, welcome to the community. It can be hard to know where to begin or [...]
Social Entrepreneurship Awards Toolkit
This toolkit offers practical guidance and working models for every stage of social entrepreneurship from initial idea, setup and piloting, on to longer term sustainability, growth and replication. The toolkit is not meant to be [...]
Toolbox for the social business
Toolbox for the social business is a practical introduction to business modelling with the key building blocks to commercialise a business idea. It presents traditional concepts of entrepreneurship and explains how these can be adapted [...]
Social Enterprise Planning Toolkit
A practical guide on how to prepare and write a feasibility study for setting up a Social Enterprise by Freer Spreckley, Local Livelihoods, supported and published by the British Council in 2011. This Social Enterprise Planning Toolkit is [...]