CFO runs an advice service for existing community shops and those interested in setting up a new one. If your community has lost its shop, or your village shop is threatened with closure, we provide one-to-one advice and guidance.
We also offer more in-depth training:
- Community Shops – getting a new project off the ground
Other sources of support
Business Planning
- NVCO – Strategy made easy: simple steps to producing your strategic plan
- Plunkett Foundation – An introduction to preparing a business plan for a rural community business
- Plunkett Foundation – Writing your business plan – questions to ask
- Plunkett Foundation – Business Plan Template
- NCVO – New manager’s guide to planning, delegating and setting performance goals
Other training providers
- Cranfield Trust – Update yourself on key management topics
- Tyro Training – Business skills and management
- Directory of Social Change – online training on management
- Virtual College – Website Management training
- Virtual College – Social Media Marketing training
- Tyro Training – Business Skills & management
- Directory of Social Change – online training on Customer Service Skills & Writing Skills