Social Enterprise within Housing

We believe that through contracting with social enterprises, housing associations and providers can create additional benefits for their residents. In fact we’ve seen it firsthand with our enterprise Aspiring Community Works.

Our history as a national network of enterprises and experienced business development team has allowed us to design a range of services to support those within the housing sector to work with social enterprises.

Our Supporting Your Management services include:

• Social Enterprise: Creating and Managing Your Enterprise
  Aspire Foundation is able to support your organisation in creating a social enterprise through; undertaking feasibility studies, designing a business case, tailoring social impacts and offering ongoing management of a new enterprise through its start up phase.
• Social Enterprise: Creating Your Business Case
  An integrated package of support, roundtables, community engagement, consultation and training which delivers a business plan setting out the potential for the creation of a social enterprise to deliver contracts to your organisation.
• Social Enterprise: Supporting Your Community Venture
  A short programme, this service is designed to offer an advice on the potential of turning existing community groups into commercially viable social enterprises.  The service focuses on initial training and discussions with the community group alongside discussions with your procurement managers.
• Supporting You
  Our experts are able to design tailored support services to suit both existing projects and feasibility assessments in social enterprise.

Please contact our team here for more information about any of these services.

Aspire Foundation prides itself on the responsive and dynamic solutions it offers, so if your needs are not catered for in the services described below please do contact us here.