Social Firms UK

This tool helps assess the viability of a business to become a social enterprise. It enables the quality of employment, workplace support issues and employee development opportunities to be assessed in businesses that might be replicated as Social Firms or social enterprises. It comes in Word format in order to allow your own text to be added. This document was is an adaptation of a tool produced by Social Firms Australia as part of a business buy-out programme. It has been produced with the support of the Small Business Service.

Do you need to do a presentation to stakeholders about Social Firms? This presentation is designed to be generic in its application and can be used by anyone wanting to educate and raise awareness about this unique type of business. Updated annually by Social Firms UK you can rest assured that the facts and definitions are correct - just adapt for your purposes!

Social Firms UK has worked with NEF (New Economics Foundation) to produce a practitioners guide to Social Return on Investment (SROI), using two Social Firms as case studies. This 'Do-It-Yourself' training manual for SROI is easy to follow and makes this topic accessible for practitioners. For Social Firms it is especially relevant as it profiles two established Social Firms (one employing people with mental health problems, the other, learning disabilities) illustrating the value of the information gleaned through the SROI process.