The Social Economy programme is a mentoring programme offering 1-1 support to community groups, voluntary groups, development groups and local charities by supporting them to develop their existing social enterprises or start-up a new social enterprise.

The mentoring support available is tailored to the needs of individual applicants. This may include;

  1. Market research
  2. Governance
  3. Accessing Finance
  4. Recruitment
  5. Sourcing funding opportunities
  6. Researching the feasibility of a new social enterprise idea