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Success in land based social enterprise

Use the menu above, features below or tags at the foot of the page to start exploring a wealth of advice and experience.

 

About

Working at Shared Assets, we come across many inspiring land-based social and community enterprises. This site presents some of the most successful and ambitious examples of community land management in the UK. Keep browsing to learn from their work. In previous research, Shared Assets learnt that many community groups or social enterprises that manage land value peer…

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Key Issues

Building partnerships. Working with local authorities. Generating income. Communicating vision. These are some of the skills it takes to build a successful land based social enterprise. Our profiles highlight the strengths of different organisations, so that the sector as a whole can learn what works. Look through the curated key issues below to learn from others’ strengths,…

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Case Studies

From river stewardship to wood recycling to organic vegetable growing, a list of the organisations profiled in our project.

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