Information from the Unlock Your Potential Event on 23rd June 2009

Enterprise Solutions Northamptonshire co-ordinated an event called Unlock Your Potential on

Tuesday 23rd June at the Saints Conference Centre in Northampton

Further information on organisations who ran workshops and stand holders

Information on workshop facilitators and stand holders and their organisations can be found including useful website links here

Presentations and information

You can download the following presentations and information from this page.  We will add to this as we receive all the information from the workshop facilitators:

A   Community Sector Trading workshop

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B   Exploring trading ideas

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• BIG tool
• Deciding where to start
• Unlock Your Potential website – a how to guide for voluntary and community groups looking at trading in Northamptonshire.  Provides an ‘easy steps’ guide to developing a trading activity, with hints and tips and worksheets to help you explore topics such as ‘Money Making Ideas’
• Finance Hub – ‘Introductory Pack on Funding and Finance: Guide to Trading’. The guide introduces trading, explains how to prepare for trading, and explores different types of trading activity. It includes practical tools for groups to use and case studies to inspire
• NCVO Sustainable Funding Project website   - provides lots of case study examples of organisations that have set trading activities to inspire you, and practical information and tools to help you along the way.
• High Peak CVS KnowledgeBank Guide ‘An introduction to developing your assets as a route to sustainability’
   

C  Will your idea work?

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E  Strategic planning

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• external forces exercise

F  Running viable community buildings

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G Legal basics for running community assets

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H  An introduction to selling to the public sector

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• commissioning factsheet

I  Charities and trading

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