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		<title>Developing Expansion Plans</title>
		<link>http://www.cms.coop/index.php/2009/09/29/developing-expansion-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New ideas are important in helping to keep your social enterprise or coop fresh. It is good, every so often, to hold a creative session where you can think of new ways to target existing clients/customers and generate new ones, or just explore better ways of doing things. Businesses that do not keep an eye [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raising Finance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CMS has experience of raising funding and finance in both start up and growth situations. It is often the case that a mix of funding (non repayable grants) together with loan finance and community equity can help to bring a project to fruition. We have a good knowledge of national and regional funding regimes, close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raising Expansion Finance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CMS has experience of assisting clients with expansion plans. If you seek to grow your business, you might need a greater working capital requirement and/or some capital investment. We have a good knowledge of funding regimes and relationships with providers of loan finance. In particular we understand their requirements and can help you fulfil them.]]></description>
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		<title>Developing New Sales and Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Planning for  growth Accurately forecasting your sales and building a sales plan for a new market can help you manage your production, staff and financing needs more effectively to avoid unforeseen cash flow problems. A sales forecast is an essential tool for managing a business of any size. It is a month-by-month forecast of the level of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governance advice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governance Advice As your social enterprise grows and develops it is good practice to review your legal structure and governance arrangements every few years. Over time these structures can become outdated and can hamper the further development of your business.  There are several things that can happen (and sometimes several happen together):- a)      The nature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staff Training and Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For so many social enterprises and small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs), providing high-quality,cost-effective training and development can be difficult due to the pressures of time and money.We have found this can be a real issue to our clients as training can be a distraction; According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), training is often seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reviewing Legal and Governance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewing Legal Structures and Governance As your social enterprise grows and develops it is good practice to review your legal structure and governance arrangements every few years. Over time these structures can become outdated and can hamper the further development of your business. There are several things that can happen (and sometimes several happen together):- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing New Sales and Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sales &#38; marketing: the basics In order to develop and grow your business you need to get your sales and marketing right as this is crucial to the success of your business. Creating a marketing strategy will help you identify potential customers and target them with appropriate products or services. Using the correct sales techniques will help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Planning</title>
		<link>http://www.cms.coop/index.php/2009/09/17/business-planning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What your business plan should include Your business plan should include a summary of what your business does, how it has developed, where you want it to go and all the social objective you want to achive (the Triple bottom line). In particular, if you are wanting to grow, it should cover your strategy for improving your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whitehaven Credit Union</title>
		<link>http://www.cms.coop/index.php/2009/09/03/whitehaven-credit-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working with CMS via business suport, advice mentoring and Business Planning has greatly strengthened our credit union.  CMS have proven time and time again to be an excellent resource from which our credit union has gained valuable information and advice, in particular marketing, raising awarness of the key benefits of our organisation via very successful [...]]]></description>
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