Welcome to Enterprising Communities
Over four years from 2002 – 2006 the Enterprising Communities (EC) project worked with 150 rural social enterprises in Cumbria. At the time it was one of the biggest rural community development and business support projects for social enterprises in England and won awards and commendations. This website is a legacy of the project and explains:
- how Enterprising Communities’ worked with new groups exploring their social enterprise ideas
- how Enterprising Communities’ supported well established community enterprises to problem-solve
- what was learnt along the way
It also provides a suite of downloadable tools developed, tested and refined by the Enterprising Communities team to for you to use and adapt when working with social enterprises.
The content for the website was prepared by Peter Ramsden and Keith Hackett of Freiss Ltd with close support from Viv Lewis, Howard Long, Bill Knowles, Anne Cunningham and Rose Bugler from the Enterprising Communities team.
We hope you enjoy this website. Please feel free to download, photocopy and distribute what you need from the website and please acknowledge the source.