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Social Enterprises
How to kick start your Social Enterprise. What you need to know. What is a Social Enterprise? There are over 100,000 social enterprises throughout the country. Contributing £60 billion to the economy and employ two million people. Firstly, Social Enterprise, Charity,...
Choosing an accountant
How to choose your accountant is really important and something that ideally you need to take time looking into. Accountants don’t just punch numbers into a calculator there’s so much more to it than that. It may seem a bit daunting choosing your accountant, but in...
What does your accountant do?
Most importantly, Tuesday 25 th August is the first LoveMyAccountantDay – and we’re excited to celebrate everything that accountants do. Many people find that they get overwhelmed with numbers. Likewise, businesses can struggle to get their head around them. That’s...
Accounting & the arts
Most people think that there’s not a lot in common between accounting and the arts. But the two do have something in common – money. Even artists have to eat, and to make a living as an artist, you have to make money. It’s not about winning million pound commissions...
Developing fundraising ideas
Developing fundraising ideas in the arts world. Ideas and SWOT analysis Gather together ideas from all of your stakeholders. Include colleagues, volunteers, donors, partners, users, competitors and beneficiaries. For example brain storming (or if you prefer, thought...
Artists working with businesses
Firstly, on the face of it you might not think that artists working with businesses is a good match, but they have a lot in common. And you might doubt whether they can work together effectively. But to dismiss artist and business partnerships would be to miss out on...