WHAT WE DO
We are a value based organisation that believes that the growth of social enterprise is of great benefit to our society and provides a real alternative to private enterprise. We operate in the following four functional areas.
We have expertise in particular sectors as the case studies highlight.
- Health – Northern Doctors Urgent Care, South Tyneside Healthy Living Centre; In Good Shape (formerly New leaf New Life)
- Social Care – Care & Share Associates, Sunderland Home Care Associate, Team Fostering, RED Initiatives CIC
- Sustainability– Community Renewable Energy, Earth Balance, Woodcraft for Landscape; ResNet
In particular business areas
- Financial planning & funding- North East Social Enterprise Partnership; South Tyneside
- Healthy Living Network, Castle
- Woods & Water
- Project management – Social Enterprise Partnership
- Business planning – Team Fostering; Deploy; Berwick Development Trust, Community
- Renewable Energy; Care and Share Associates
- Externalisation – Northumberland Social Services, The Exchange
- Legal and organisational structures including cic formation; Northern Doctors Urgent Care (23); RED Initiatives cic; Greater Morpeth Development Trust; NESEP
- Evaluation: Social Enterprise Northumberland; The Hub
We also offer a range of creative and interactive training workshops designed for audience types ranging from people with learning disabilities to civil servants and policy makers. Training workshops include;
- Rapid Enterprise Development – see redcic.com
- An Introduction To The World Of Social Enterprise
- Healthy Social Enterprises
- Blood & Stones; Financial Planning & Fund-raising
- Social Franchising Explained
- To trade or not to trading – social enterprise options in the voluntary and community sector
- Values Based Business Advice - a training programme for advisors from Business Link and the Voluntary and Community Sector who are involved in advising social enterprises
And finally, in development support methodologies
- Social Franchising – Community Renewable Energy; Care and Share Associates; European Social Franchising Network; INSPIRE; Counted 4 cic
- Social Enterprise Networks and agencies – Social Enterprise Partnership; North East Social Enterprise Partnership;Social Firms UK; COPE; Social Enterprise Coalition;
- Training for Real – Social Firms Manager Training Programme; Value Based Advisor Training; Rapid Enterprise Development (RED) Workshops; ResNet
- Web based development: RED CIC.com; Social Firm Manager Development Programme
WHO WE ARE
Economic Partnerships is one of the longest established social enterprise research and development consultancies in the UK and is itself a social enterprise. Since 1995 we have worked with some of the best known names in social enterprise and have developed some of the most exciting new approaches to growing the sector.
We have three members who jointly have over 50 years experience developing social enterprises and social enterprise development support methodologies.
- Dr Guy Turnbull – finance, business planning, health and social care
- Mike Berriman – project development; sustainability; social accounting
- Keith Richardson – marketing; market research, network development, sustainability, and involvement