Neil Roberts

Our experiences in London totally mirror those Megan described in her post regarding the conversation in Doncaster.

A large majority of VCS training providers have been delivering public contracts to provide education, training & employment services to workless / under employed people for many years. Even organisations with a turnover in excess of £15m pa are struggling with the new procurement & commissioning processes around skills & employment.

The conversations I have been having with other VCS groups & organisations considering social enterprise as an income diversification tool have been quite interesting.

Helen is quite right with her observation regarding the enterprise being a different entity to the parent. This is certainly what I’m seeing. Most charities don’t have the ability to trade within their Mem & Arts and need to establish a seperate entity (CICs being quite popular) mandating profits back to the parent.