Helping Businesses Create
Communities and Helping
Communities Create Businesses

Community Enterprise Engine is a social innovation consultancy working with community groups and businesses. The Engine supports and creates inclusive, active enterprising and sustainable communities. We believe enterprise has to be social, and social needs to be enterprising.

We are a team of community development professionals with skills in funding, social enterprise and community building. Our background is in helping community groups and charities thrive.

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The Engine is a social business consultancy that works with communities to develop all their income streams including: trading, grants, donations, contracts, partnerships, communities, loans and equity.

We work in partnership with charities and community groups to help them grow.

Ignite

Build, grow and sustain your community enterprise with our engine:

Choose the right structure for your enterprise
Get more grants
Increase trading income
Be more strategic
Become more sustainable
Demonstrate your social impact

SERVICES

Funding Income

We specialise in all the income streams for community organisations including trading; grants; contracts; donations; partnerships; funding audits and monetising communities.

Grant Funding

support to secure grants,, write or review funding applications, identify new funders for your work, create compelling template application content.

Partnership Building

Bringing partners together to match the needs of grant and tender opportunities

Community Engagement

Advice on how to build stronger communities increasing levels of engagement and interaction

Online Community Building

Helping ecommerce to build and monetise their communities.

Social Impact

Support you to demonstrate your social impact through social reporting, creating a theory of change.

Strategic consultancy & facilitation

Support to create your business plan, business model innovation, facilitate an 'away day' or strategy day for your senior management team or board.

Training

We deliver a broad range of online and face-to-face training courses on all of the above areas, tailored to your needs. Our training is suitable for directors, trustees, fundraising staff and senior management.

Fundraising Strategy & Income Generation

Support to create your fundraising strategy, analyse your fundraising performance, develop trading activities and create your case for support. We also provide ongoing advice and mentoring to fundraisers.

Meet The Team

Tobias

Tobias’s natural habitat is a couple of sofas in front of a large whiteboard. He loves the magic that happens from the buzz of brainstorming, helping companies work through business tools, steering them towards breakthrough moments, and reinforcing their motivation to get stuff done.

• Background in market research
• Co-author of Help to Grow
• Community building strategist
• Greyhound owner
• Loves canoeing on the River Soar

June

June loves to scout out funding and partnership opportunities. Bringing her substantive years of experience of working in the Third/Charity Sector, she has specialised knowledge in: grant/tender bid writing, community engagement, race equality, charity governance and organisation development.

• Background in community development
• High success record with grant funding
• Brilliant at governance diligence
• Fixer of broken things
• Explorer of all things natural