Free business support for Somerset social enterprises
Somerset 3D highlighted free advice for social enterprises. Current programmes change, so check what is open before applying.
The Somerset 3D news archive urged social enterprises to take up free business support. That offer sat alongside the county's wider inward-investment work: help with premises, governance, networks and the discipline of winning contracts.
Somerset already had working examples. YMCA projects at the Beach Hotel in Minehead and, later, the Great Western Hotel in Taunton combined hospitality training with community use of prominent buildings. Food, care, creative and visitor enterprises have used the same route, often with a local council or a chamber as the introducer.
Named funds and mentoring rounds from 2018 are not a promise of what is open now. If you are a social enterprise looking at Somerset, send a short note about your model and the area you prefer. We will point you to whoever is actually funding advice this year.