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		<title>The Hub: Support for Social Enterprise in West Cumbria</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary CMS managed The Hub programme from June 2005 to March 2009  supplying specialist advice to new and emerging social enterprises in West Cumbria, encouraging them to acquire business skills and supporting them towards a healthy future by providing financial, legal and mentoring help. The Challenge While West Cumbria had a great deal of voluntary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing Expansion Plans</title>
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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 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>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>Staff Training and Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Training to fit your Staffs needs&#8230;. It is well researched that selecting effective training for your employees can vastly improve your chances of success. It can help build your business, have a much greater competitive advantage and equip your staff with all the skills that your business needs. When choosing training courses for your staff, it is a good idea to [...]]]></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>Marketing and Promotion</title>
		<link>http://www.cms.coop/index.php/2009/08/28/marketing-and-promotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CMS have a wide range of skills to support your business in the area of marketing and promotion. From Consultancy If you are thinking of starting a business, you are an existing social enterprise or new / existing Cooperative we have a range of services that can help your business reach the next level and enable you to be ahead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MANA Credit Union, North Allerdale, West Cumbria</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September 2006, at a chance meeting at Ewanrigg, Garath Nash and Anne Sowerby told me of the services that CMS offered, that was a turning point within our organisation. With Anne&#8217;s boundless energy and knowledge she helped us gain a grant of £7000 for marketing and advice on how to re-brand ourselves, and we had [...]]]></description>
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