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DEVELOPING COMMUNITY CLUBS SUPPORT DIRECTORY YOUR CLUB. YOUR HOME. YOUR COMMUNITY WELCOME CONTENTS At the Scottish FA we recognise that clubs across the BUSINESS START UP, FUNDING country have aspirations of becoming key assets in their PLANNING AND MONITORING local community. We recognise that the clubs would like to DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION be able to deliver major impacts, both on and off the pitch. 04 22 As such, we have created this support directory to ensure that all communication with key partner organisations is as GOVERNANCE FOOTBALL FAMILY straightforward as possible. It will also allow clubs to have the key information readily available whenever they may need it. Throughout this support directory you will find key partners 08 26 and organisations who will help you become strong and sustainable social enterprises. We have created this document CHILD KEY PARTNERS so it is as clear as possible what each organisation does, and how WELLBEING CONTACT DETAILS they will be able to assist your club. Each organisation will help AND PROTECTION you operate as a thriving community asset and help you deliver community engagement and life change programmes for your 12 28 surrounding environment. DEVELOPMENT AND 18 VOLUNTEERING OUR SPONSORS 2 / 3 / YOUR CLUB. YOUR HOME. YOUR COMMUNITY CHAPTER 01/ BUSINESS BUSINESS START UP, START UP, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT CEIS provides a range of independent and professional business DTAS is the national body for development trusts in Scotland. PLANNING support services and business finance solutions for social and DTA Scotland assists interested communities explore the benefits community enterprises. Building the capacity of communities and relevance of the development trust approach, providing through employability and engagement services, CEIS also provide useful resources, training and support to communities wishing to event management and social research services. establish a development trust. Established development trusts can AND www.ceis.org.uk access a wide range of membership benefits and useful resources. DEVELOPMENT http://www.dtascot.org.uk/ CEMVO aims to build the capacity of Scotland’s minority ethnic Forth Sector Development services include: procurement support voluntary and community sector. They do this by building capacity to the Public, Private Sector and Third Sector; support in the and mobilising skills in organisations and their people, fostering development of employability programmes; advice, training and both individual and collective leadership, working strategically to support in Impact Measurement; and business coaching and raise the profile of and create opportunities for the sector. mentoring in a wide range of business skills. www.cemvoscotland.org.uk www.forthsectordevelopment.org.uk Community Enterprise is a social enterprise that provides personalised support to individuals and groups in areas such as HIE is the economic and community development agency for the accounting, fundraising, marketing and impact measurement. They north and west of Scotland. Supporting businesses and social charge for large pieces of work, such as business plans, and enterprises to shape and realise their growth aspirations. all profit generated is used to subsidise free support. www.hie.co.uk www.communityenterprise.co.uk HISEZ offers Business Support to new and existing Social Co-operative Development Scotland (CDS) supports the Enterprises throughout the Highlands and Islands. HISEZ deliver development of co-operative and employee-owned enterprises support as part of the Just Enterprise Programme as well as across Scotland. Support includes exploring the options, networking opportunities and training. structuring the company, financing the business and developing www.hisez.co.uk member participation. www.scottish-enterprise.com/services/develop-your-organisation/ co-operativedevelopment-scotland/overview 5 / YOUR CLUB. YOUR HOME. YOUR COMMUNITY BUSINESS START UP, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT Just Enterprise is a consortium bringing together Scotland’s key Scottish Community Alliance is a network organisation which social enterprise support agencies to provide business support helps the community sector in Scotland develop its own identity and development services to Enterprising Third Sector and voice. SCA has two main functions – to promote the work of Organisations across Scotland. Its principal role is to deliver local people in their communities and to influence national the Scottish Government’s contract for Business Support to the policy development. Third Sector. The Just Enterprise consortium consists of CEIS, www.scottishcommunityalliance.org.uk/about HISEZ, Firstport, the Social Enterprise Academy, Forth Sector Development, Community Enterprise Ltd, CEMVO Scotland, Lanarkshire Enterprise Services, Ready for Business and Inspiralba. www.justenterprise.org SKS Scotland CIC is a social enterprise which specialises in consultancy support to other social enterprises and Third Sector organisations. It is a paid for service which uses its generated Senscot Social Enterprise Networks offers peer support, resource income to provide employment and services for people with sharing and development of markets, a focal point for issues long term conditions. specific to local social enterprises, a collective voice and the www.sksscotland.co.uk opportunity to raise awareness and profile of social enterprise. Thematic networks include Sport, Employability, Cultural & Creative and Health & Community Food. https://senscot.net/networks Social Enterprise Scotland (SES) represents the sector’s interests to politicians, policy makers, opinion formers and in the media. SES works in partnership with Senscot and Social Firms Scotland. School for Social Entrepreneurs Scotland became an www.socialenterprisescotland.org.uk independent School in 2012 and continues to build on the strong reputation and programmes delivered by SSE Fife since 2002. The school operates across the whole of Scotland and aims to help communities previously unsupported by public and third sector programmes. Social Firms Scotland is the national support body for the www.the-sse.org/schools/scotland development and promotion of Social Firms in Scotland. Its purpose is to grow the sector in Scotland in order to increase employment opportunities for severely disadvantaged people. www.socialfirms.org.uk Scottish Enterprise supports the development of globally competitive companies by offering an integrated business support model where companies with ambitions to grow can access the right type of support at the right stage of their growth. Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) supports best www.scottish-enterprise.com practice in community development and is recognised by the Scottish Government as the national lead body for community development. www.scdc.org.uk 6 / 7 / YOUR CLUB. YOUR HOME. YOUR COMMUNITY CHAPTER 02/ GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE AND LEGAL AND LEGAL Senscot Legal provides affordable support in legal matters to Legal structures for your club the social enterprise community and wider third sector in Scotland. The Scottish FA and other key stakeholders have Areas of law include governance, company formation, employment created a document that we hope will give you some law, contracts, dispute resolution and intellectual property additional information on legal structures available to issues- this list is by no means exhaustive. your organisation www.se-legal.net http://scotfa.co/legalstructure Social Investment Scotland (SIS) is a registered Charity and The Cranfield Trust provides free business skills to build successful Social Enterprise which provides business loans to Third Sector charities. The Cranfield Trust is a national charity offering free organisations. SIS aims to support the creation and growth of business skills, advice and guidance to voluntary, community and charities, community organisations and social enterprises that social enterprise organisations. have the capability to make sustainable social impacts. https://www.cranfieldtrust.org www.socialinvestmentscotland.com Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) is the Scottish Community Re:Investment Trust provides opportunities network organisation for Scotland’s Third Sector Interfaces (TSIs). for third sector organisations to invest in and support the They advocate for, co-ordinate and support the work of Scotland’s development of the wider third sector, develop sector specific local third sector support organisations. financial services and products, promotes financial capability and https://scvo.org.uk increasing the financial expertise of the third sector. www.scrt.scot OSCR is the independent Regulator and Registrar for Scotland’s charities, including community groups, religious charities, schools, universities, grant-giving charities, and major care providers. www.oscr.org.uk 9 / YOUR CLUB. YOUR HOME. YOUR COMMUNITY ASSET TRANSFER The Community Ownership Support Service (COSS) is a Scottish Scottish Government government funded project, set up to help community-based Part 5 of the Community Empowerment Act introduces a right groups in Scotland to take on land or building assets for their for community bodies to make requests to all local authorities, community. They also support local authorities wishing to transfer Scottish Ministers and a wide-ranging list of public bodies, for any a building or land asset. land or buildings they feel they could make better use of. They www.dtascommunityownership.org.uk can request ownership,