Community Sustainability
The Work it Out! social enterprise programme

Building an enterprise culture in voluntary and community organisations

Traditional third sector funding models are no longer sustainable and are not adequate for long term growth ambitions. Many voluntary sector bodies are recognising this and adopting a new enterprise approach which goes well beyond grants.

The Work It Out! Community Sustainability programme has supported hundreds of third sector organisations in the last five years. We have helped to create an enterprise culture in organisations, built a network of social enterprises and worked with isolated and village and rural communities to enable them to grow globally from a local base.

We can help your organisation and your community to achieve its aims by quickly moving from dependency and grants - to building a secure range of income streams and becoming fully sustainable.

We can deliver the 6 month process in your organisation or in your area for a range of groups and bodies. 
Realising Your Vision

We deliver this 6 month programme to help third sector organisations realise their potential. We want you to build on your good works. We want you to achieve all that is important for the people that you help and serve. We want to help you do much, much, more.  We can help you to generate additional funds and income streams.  We just need you to be clear about why you need additional funds and how much you need.
Your Outputs
 
- You will identify and realise a minimum of six new income streams by the end of the programme,
- You will have your first income generating books live on Amazon.
- You will know how to promote your key message and vision globally - and get paid to do it every month.
- You will be able to recruit a virtually limitless supply of volunteers and support staff for free.
- You will be able to turn every grant into an everlasting income stream.
- You will have a course or a product that is capable of being licensed internationally earning you hundreds of thousands per year.
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Everlasting Grants - How every grant can deliver ongoing passive income for your organisation.
The 6 Month income generation development process

This consists of 6 half day group training sessions with ongoing individual support. There are a series of actions to be undertaken between each session which will drive the income generation process and ensure results for each organisation. The Collective Coaching methodology enables all organisations to support each other - quickly learning and then delivering new income streams.
The 6 sessions

Using all our individual skills and experience to build income streams.
Session 1

Harvesting what we already know for immediate income. 
Session 2 

50 Income generation ideas  specific to your Organisation.
Session 3 

How to build Passive Community Income – sit back and relax?
Session 4 

Marketing and selling your products online - easy, fast and profitably!
Session 5 

Licensing your training courses, services and products to others for massive income growth.
Session 6 ​
Find out more...

Please email [email protected] for more information OR complete and submit this form to find out more about the Sustainability Programme.
Thank-you.
Content
Just some of what we cover....

- Recognising the new financial landscape for community groups.
- How individual sustainability creates community wealth.
- Sustainability is not a ‘bolt on’.
- The new types of partnerships that are needed
- Why grants are temporary and products are permanent
- Key steps for building a multi faceted / multi workpiece / multi income organisation
- Strategic positioning to give you real value.
- Self generated, Passive income and Investment income - getting a plan for each.
- Empowering and engaging your people for income generation.
- Premises and assets - 4 Case studies.
- How every grant can create ongoing permanent income streams.
- Key process for building self generated income.
- The top 25 most popular community businesses that every voluntary organisation could be earning from.
- How to identify, build and leverage your assets..
- How to design and build community workpieces.
- How to write and sell ebooks online.
- Earning monthly income from Amazon.
- What are you selling on ebay?
- What books, courses, products, memberships, events, activities, mentoring, tutoring, coaching, advisory services, etc can people buy from your website?
- How to segment and monetise your core skill into 30 different income streams. 
- Simple passive income opportunities for community based organisations
- What does your business card say?
- Driving the Sustainability process and making it happen - from today!
- How to ensure that individuals are responsible for key activities and that there is shared ownership of the process and tasks.
- Sustainability skills and longer term strategy.
Feedback
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'A real eye opening session! I learned so much - not just about income but how we should be building our organisation.'

'We needed to find a way forward for our organisation - and now we have a proper plan in place for 2019.'

'No one has ever detailed the income opportunities for the Voluntary sector like this before. The session was brilliant! A totally different approach to the way we had been thinking.'

'The training was a real breath of fresh air - direct, realistic and practical. We worked out exactly what we need to do.'

'I feel inspired and motivated! I believe we can make a much stronger contribution to our community now'.

'We have an excellent framework and are  working enthusiastically on this. Every voluntary organisation needing income should be working to this.'
More Feedback
What was your overall impression of the Sustainability Programme?

​Extremely helpful and insightful.
Really informative and interactive.
Delivered far more than we could have imagined!
Really excellent, motivational, inspiring and enlightening! Comprehensive, inspiring and thought-provoking!
It really made me think about sustainability in a different way.
Packed with excellent ideas!
Interactive, buzzing atmosphere fast paced - brilliant process!
​Intensive and enjoyable sessions.
Really positive with some real thinking outside the box.
Innovative ideas for creating opportunities to monetise business.
Undoubtedly the best course I have ever been on.!
Our emphasis on chasing grant income has totally shifted to generating our own income.
Makes you think about what you are doing day to day.
Mind changing!
Fabulous! Made us think about different ways to generate income.
 
What are the best income generation ideas that you implemented? 

​How we can create natural products.
Selling our training to others.
Marketing play sacks and activity packs for our nursery.
Licensing our training courses.
Creating linked products to sell through our shop e.g.  framed pictures, etc.
Taking our training online.
Giving individuals responsibility within our organisation for income generating activities.
Café hubs in deprived areas
How to grow our charity shop.
Cashing in on the resources we already had.
Upcycling unwanted materials
Building ownership for income generation by everyone in the organisation.
Where to expand our foot care range.
Train Mentors and Champions to deliver our courses.
Deliver webinars for training workshops.
Making much better use of the space that we rent out.
Developing a range of Merchandise.
Local resource help book for men.