ADVICE SITE LAUNCHED FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISES AND OTHERS

Good advice is worth its weight in gold and new governance resources for community-based projects, in particular social enterprises, have been developed and published online where they are now freely accessible.

The extensive online library of resources, launched in November, is part of part of a new project called the Social Enterprise Policy Bank. Resources include, for example, a 25-page guide for boards of directors of organisations with charity status.

Downloads include:

- Social Enterprises and Community Development.

- Pobal's Managing Better Series.

- The Spark Toolkit.

- A Social Enterprise Toolkit.

The website has links to national bodies such as the Irish Social Enterprise Network, the Social Entrepreneurs Academy, and Social Enterprise Republic of Ireland.

It links to a 60-minute recording on Youtube of a Governance Workshop for Social Enterprises delivered by Philip Isard. He has produced seven more resource videos for the project. They are worth checking out even if your community organisation is not a social enterprise.

For aspiring students, the website provides a link to Maynooth University's Certificate in Social Enterprise. More courses offered elsewhere such as by UCC's Centre for Co-operative Studies should be added in time.

The project's overall aim is to help Irish social enterprises achieve good governance and meet their statutory and legal obligations and it was officially launched in Monaghan by Minister Heather Humphreys on November 14th.

The project was developed by Monaghan Integrated Development, Cavan County Local Development and Louth Local Development with support from a research charity called Quality Matters. The project is funded through the Department of Rural and Community Development with support from the Dormant Accounts Fund.

Have a gander and decide for yourself!

W: https://sepolicybank.ie/