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Funders, support organisations, regulators and membership bodies for the social sector, and what each one does.
- UnLtd — Funding and support for social entrepreneurs, from very early stage upwards.
- Social Investment Business — Loans, grants and blended finance for charities and social enterprises, plus a lot of free guidance on getting investment ready.
- PBE — Formerly Pro Bono Economics. Economists working pro bono for charities and social enterprises on measuring impact and making the economic case.
- UK Community Foundations — The network of community foundations. Local grant funding, and often the first place a small local group should look.
- Better Society Capital — Formerly Big Society Capital. The UK's social impact investment wholesaler.
- Good Finance — Built to help charities and social enterprises understand social investment before they go looking for it.
- Social Value International — The Principles of Social Value, SROI practitioner training, and assurance of completed reports.
- Social Audit Network — Social accounting and audit, and the register of approved social auditors who chair the panels that verify social accounts.
- Clore Social Leadership — Leadership development for the social sector, and the Leadership Development Model this site teaches from.
- NCVO — Practical guidance for voluntary organisations, and the standard reference on governance.
- Social Enterprise UK — The membership body for social enterprises, with the clearest plain-English explainers.
- B Lab UK — B Corp certification: the standards, the process and what it costs.
- Getting on Board — Recruiting trustees, and training for people becoming one for the first time.
- Reach Volunteering — Free trustee recruitment and skilled volunteers.
- Charity Excellence — Free funding finder, governance health checks and a large template library.
- Charity Commission — England and Wales. Registering, trustee guidance, the annual return and the register.
- OSCR — The Scottish Charity Regulator.
- Charity Commission for Northern Ireland — The regulator for Northern Ireland charities.
- Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies — Forming a CIC, the community interest statement, the asset lock and the CIC34.
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