Starting a Social Enterprise
Set out on the right foot and get ready to make sustainable impact!
Use this tool to understand:
What might be needed to start your social enterprise.
Your obligations for starting up a business.
How to start thinking about impact and how it fits in.
Who can help, and where they are.
How to use this tool
This tool is a checklist designed for you to work through and learn what there is to consider when starting up a social enterprise. Social enterprises need to balance both a business model and business obligations, and what we call an impact model and their community obligations, in order to be sustainable over the long term.
You can work through the checklist in any order you like, but we recommend doing each section in order (Develop your idea, create your plan, get going).
Please note this tool does not cover any and all compliance required for small business management. Please check business.govt.nz for any additional information.