Our clients have the following structures:
- Community benefit societies
- Co-operative societies
- Community Interest Companies
- Charitable Incorporated Organisations
- Unincorporated charities
- Company charities
- Exempt charities (charitable registered societies)
- Companies limited by guarantee
- Traditional limited companies – but acting with a social purpose
- Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)
- People trading on their own or in partnership, with a social mission
They operate in the following sectors:
- Housing – registered social housing providers, mutual home ownership societies, housing co-operatives, community land trusts
- Media – community owned media organisations
- Campaigning – campaigning charities and organisations
- Energy – community owned renewable energy
- Retail – community owned shops and worker co-operatives
- Food – growing and food production
- Social – migrants, poverty, homelessness
- Arts
And get funding from:
- Trading and service provision – self-generated funding
- Community share issues taking advantage of the Enterprise Investment Scheme or Social Investment Tax Relief
- Grants and donations
