About the project

The Social Enterprise Partnership Quality & Impact Project (2002–2005) is the project behind all of this: it has surveyed a range of methods for measuring impact and building quality and has developed several new resources and approaches in collaboration with organisations involved in the Social Enterprise Partnership (GB) Ltd.

These include:

•	Proving and Improving: a quality and impact toolkit for social enterprise.
•	This site, Proveandimprove.org, which serves as a companion to the Toolkit.
•	The SROI Primer – available at http://sroi.london.edu, developed in conjunction with London Business School.
•	The Social Audit Network Social Accounting and Audit Manual.
•	The DTA Healthcheck – created by the Development Trusts Association for the Development Trust and community business sector as a quality building tool.
•	Key Social and Co-operative Performance Indicators – developed by Co-operativesUK to help co-operatives measure their performance against they core co-operative principles.
•	LM3 – Local Multiplier 3 – a straightforward way to measure the impact of organisations on the local economy developed by nef and piloted as part of the Q & I Project.
•	Social Enterprise Balanced Scorecard – adapted by Social Enterprise London to help organisations to ‘map’ their unique business strategy and develop measurements that indicate success in meeting their goals.
•	Social Firms Performance Dashboard – developed by Social Firms UK to help social firms to track their performance from multiple perspectives simply and easily.

The Toolkit and web site have been made possible by the productive collaboration of the SEP partners. Each partner organisation has made a unique contribution to the Quality & Impact Project, enabling the project to reflect a broad spectrum of social enterprise forms both in developing new tools and in contributing to the knowledge base that the Toolkit draws upon.

The publication and website have been funded jointly by the Department of Trade and Industry’s Small Business Service – Social Enterprise Unit and by the European Social Fund’s Equal Community Initiative Programme. The contents do not necessarily reflect the opinion or position of the European Commission and/or Department of Trade and Industry.

The Social Enterprise Partnership (SEP GB Ltd) was funded by the EQUAL

Community Initiative Programme and the Department for Trade and Industry’s Small Business Service Social Enterprise Unit, to deliver a three-year project of infrastructure and systems’ development, capacity building, and research and development for the social enterprise sector from 2002–2005. The members of the Social Enterprise Partnership are leading organisations working in the social enterprise field in the UK: Co-operativesUK, Development Trusts Association, nef (the new economics foundation), Social Enterprise London, Social Firms UK and the Social Enterprise Coalition. For further information please visit: www.sepgb.co.uk

For additional acknowledgments click here

Social Enterprise Coalition – www.socialenterprise.org.uk
Small Business Services – www.sbs.gov.uk
European Union – europa.eu.int
Equal – europa-eu.int/comm./employment_social/equal/index_en.cfm
Development Trusts Association – www.dta.org.uk
SEP - www.sepgb.co.uk
Co-operativesUK – www.cooperatives-uk.coop
Social Enterprise London – www.sel.org.uk
Social Firms UK - www.socialfirms.co.uk
http://sroi.london.edu

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