Sustaining your advice service - Investment Toolkit

A guide for advice centres looking to:

• Diversify their income

• Source alternative funding

• Start a social enterprise/ trading service

By Nigel Wilkinson, Enterprise Investment and Development Manager, London Rebuilding Society and Siobhan Hogan, Development Consultant, AdviceUK This toolkit guide aims to help advice organisations understand what social enterprise is all about and looks at some of the practical steps necessary in setting up an income generating model. You can choose to follow each section in succession or just pick a chapter of relevance to you now. The guide will take you through each step, offering case studies, tips and guidance along the way. Each section concludes with links to resources and further support.

To access the toolkit see: http://www.adviceuk.org.uk/_uploads/documents/MicrosoftWord-InvestmentguideFINALVERSION.pdf

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The Sustainability Advice Guide

The Sustainability Guide has been produced under the Sustainable Advice Project (SAP) at AdviceUK. The project was made possible by funding secured from the City Bridge Trust and brings together all of the learning from the project over the last three years. The Guide has been designed to support organisations wishing to assess and enhance their sustainability and is structured to provide an overview of three key areas in relation to sustainability: how advice services are delivered, how advice services are funded and influencing and challenging policy. Click here to access The Sustainability Advice Guide