Useful links to other sites

 

• Business toolkits
• Funding
• Government
• Investment and loans
• Mainstream Banks
• Professional bodies
• Social Banks
• Social enterprise bodies
• Scottish Government and Executive Agencies

Business toolkits

• Acid test Ltd: the acid test
• Business Link: business planning toolkit
• Get Legal: free online reference and decision-making tool for social enterprises
• New Economics Foundation: Proving and Improving
• New Economics Foundation: Plugging the Leaks

Funding

• Adventure Capital Fund (ACF)
• Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
• Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
• European Union
• Funding Buddies
• Funding Central
• LankellyChase Foundation
• The Baring Foundation
• The Barrow Cadbury Trust
• The Big Lottery Fund
• The Henry Smith Charity
• The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
• The Tudor Trust
• UnLtd
  

Government

• Business Link
• Charity Commission for England & Wales
• Companies House
• Department for Business Innovation and Skills
• Department of Communities and Local Government
• Financial Services Authority
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Insolvency Service
• Intellectual Property Office  
• Office of Civil Society 
• Office of Fair Trading
• Trading Standards
• Welsh Government
• UK Trade & Investment

Investment and loans

• Big Issue Invest
• Co-operative and Community Finance
• Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Loans Programme
• Finance Wales
• Local Investment Fund
• London Rebuilding Society
• Social Investment Scotland
• The Social Investment Business
• Ulster Community Investment Trust
• UnLtd
• Venturesome fund

Mainstream Banks

• Barclays
• Halifax Bank
• HSBC
• Lloyds TSB
• Natwest
• Royal Bank of Scotland

Professional bodies

• Association of Charted Certified Accountants (ACCA)
• Chamber of Commerce (Britain)
• Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (UK)
• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
• Chartered Management Institute
• Insolvency Practitioners Association
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland
• Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators
• Institute of Directors
• Institute of Financial Accountants
• The Law Society for England and Wales
• The Law Society of Scotland
• The Pensions Trust

Social Banks

• Co-operative Bank
• The Charity Bank
• Triodos Bank
• Unity Trust Bank Plc

Social enterprise bodies

• Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations
• CIC Association
• Community Action Network
• Co-operatives UK
• Development Trusts Association
• Forth Sector
• Fundraising Standards Board  
• LawWorks
• RISE
• Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition
• Social Enterprise Coalition
• Social Enterprise East Midlands
• Social Enterprise London
• Social Enterprise Works
• Social Firms Wales
• Social Firms UK
• Together Works - social enterprise in Greater Manchester
• Welsh Social Enterprise Coalition

Scottish Government and Executive Agencies

• Scottish Charity Regulator
• Scottish Government
• The Scottish Housing Regulator

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