The Workbook is divided into four sections.
Section 1 - Discover
Get your community enterprise journey under way by identifying community issues and investigating the reasons why you want to start a community enterprise.
Section 1 also explores the composition of your community group. Who will be involved? What skills do individuals bring to the group? Who are your key stakeholders?
Section 2 - Dream
What do you see as the ideal community enterprise? What are your hopes, dreams and aspirations? You will explore, think, research and investigate ideas.
This section gives you some general tools to generate dozens of community enterprise ideas. It also provides several tools to help you filter your long list of ideas to a manageable number.
The Workbook is divided into four sections.
Section 1 - Discover
Get your community enterprise journey under way by identifying community issues and investigating the reasons why you want to start a community enterprise.
Section 1 also explores the composition of your community group. Who will be involved? What skills do individuals bring to the group? Who are your key stakeholders?
Section 2 - Dream
What do you see as the ideal community enterprise? What are your hopes, dreams and aspirations? You will explore, think, research and investigate ideas.
This section gives you some general tools to generate dozens of community enterprise ideas. It also provides several tools to help you filter your long list of ideas to a manageable number.
Sections 3A and 3B -Design and Decide
It's time to consider what your community enterprise ideas will actually look like. This section guides you through a number of key questions to add structure and substance to your concepts.
You will then decide on one idea for which you will carry out a feasibility study. Based on the outcomes of your feasibility study, you will make a decision about whether or not to start up your community enterprise and move on to Section 4.
Section 4 - Do
You will now have what you need to make a decision to pursue your community enterprise. It's time to do your business plan, which will spell out how to get your enterprise up and running and set your goals and projections for the first three years.
