[cma-l] Community sector trading: Trading to create new income streams

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Source: http://www.socialenterpriselive.com/your-news/community-sector-trading-trading-create-new-income-streams

The Development Trusts Association is now accepting applicants for a
Community Sector Trading course in October.

Community Sector Trading is a free course that provides practical
training on the ‘nuts and bolts’ of running a business in the
community. The learning programme gives participants the opportunity
to engage with leaders of successful trading community organisations
and explores:

- Strategic planning and growth
- Developing trading activities and diversifying income streams
- Investment readiness
- Pitching new ventures

It aims to support both front-line organisations who are currently
developing a social enterprise project and third sector development
support providers. This goes way beyond a traditional training course
as it provides participants with additional business planning support,
introduces a varied set of critical friends and is partly delivered
through online conferencing technology.

We believe that people learn best from exploring real examples and
practicing their own probing and problem-solving skills with
inspiration and experience on tap. Understanding enterprise is like
art or sport - you need to practice and you need to reflect,
preferably with the encouraging input of someone with far more
experience in an environment structured for learning.

Each learning programme consists of a two-day residential followed by
four online Action Learning Sessions over the following couple of
months. Each of these sessions will explore real examples of community
organisations that have developed trading and give participants an
opportunity to practice developing and selling their ideas.

Who should participate?

- Lead managers of social enterprises and community groups
- Trustees of small community organisations
- National, regional and local VCS infrastructure organisations
- CVSs and local Change Up partnerships
- Business Link franchise holders
- Regional social enterprise agencies
- SKiLD (Skills & Knowledge in Local Development)
- Non-finance specialist managers and generic workers

We are particularly seeking participation from BME and rural community groups

Autumn Course Dates

Two day residential session (London) - 5/6 October 2009
1st online session – 21 October 2009
2nd online session – 5 November 2009
3rd online session – 18 November 2009
4th online session – 1 December 2009
Final face-2-face meeting – 16 December 2009

For more information and to express your interest, please visit
http://www.communityst.co.uk or contact Haoming Yau (Tel: 0207 336
9438 Email: h.yau at dta.org.uk)

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