Social Firms UK

 Uday Thakkar, Managing Director of Red Ochre is running four workshops for Business Link.

Finance remains a major weakness for most potential and existing social enterprises. Understanding finance and financial management are necessary to demonstrate before attempting to raise funding. This workshop will review finance and financial management and how to use these skills to make funding applications and improve management decisions.

The workshop will also look at the different sources of funding available to social entrepreneurs including grant-making trust, government and lottery funding, as well as bank funding, social lenders and other new methods of funding.

Workshop outline This workshop has been specifically designed for the social enterprise sector. Through case studies and group discussions attendees will look at:

Uday Thakkar, Managing Director of Red Ochre is running four workshops for Business Link.

Finance remains a major weakness for most potential and existing social enterprises. Understanding finance and financial management are necessary to demonstrate before attempting to raise funding. This workshop will review finance and financial management and how to use these skills to make funding applications and improve management decisions.

The workshop will also look at the different sources of funding available to social entrepreneurs including grant-making trust, government and lottery funding, as well as bank funding, social lenders and other new methods of funding.

Workshop outline This workshop has been specifically designed for the social enterprise sector. Through case studies and group discussions attendees will look at:

This half day conference will be an opportunity for established social entrepreneurs and commissioners to meet face-to-face and better understand each other's requirements, priorities and challenges.

There will also be a strong focus on the recent changes in the commissioning landscape and how this affects both social enterprises and those who commission them.

Social Entrepreneurs who have won contracts in the public and private sectors will be sharing their journeys and discussing what barriers they overcame to access the contracts.

Commissioners from a range of sectors (NHS, Local Authority, Youth Services) will talk about their requirements, their experience of dealing with social enterprises and about how to become a fit for purpose supplier.