How to set up as a social enterprise with Traci Lewis

Traci is a social entrepreneur, trainer, facilitator and catalyst. She is co-founder and director of Catalyse Change CIC and also leads the Women in Sustainability Bristol hub. I'm lucky enough to know Traci through the School for Social Entrepreneurs, and I knew as soon as I met her that I wanted her to be a guest on this podcast to talk to us about getting started in social entrepreneurship.

The highlights

• I give an update on what's going to happen with this podcast over my maternity leave 00:22
• I introduce Traci and she tells us about who she is and who she helps 03:06
• Traci tells us about how her journey to becoming a social entrepreneur 06:17
• Traci talks about Catalyse Change 15:18
• We discuss funding a social enterprise 20:58
• Traci tells us where she got support when she was setting up 26:32
• Traci tells us the first few things we need to start thinking about to get set up as a social enterprise 27:52
• We discuss the legal side of running a social enterprise 33:49
• I ask Traci how somebody would know if social enterprise is the right route for them 39:07
• Traci tells us the first steps she would recommend 40:48
• Traci tells us where we can find her 44:03

Traci’s Links:

Websites: 

www.tracilewis.co.uk

https://catalysechange.com

LinkedIn: Traci Lewis

Twitter: @tracilewis79

Other Links:

The School for Social Entrepreneurs https://www.the-sse.org

How to Successfully Set Up and Grow a Social Enterprise Heidi L Fisher

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Social-Enterprise-successfully-social-enterprise/dp/0995748616

Start With Why Simon Sinek

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone-ebook/dp/B005JZD3B4/

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I just wanted to give you a little update on what's going to happen with this podcast over my maternity leave, because if you've been listening for a while then you'll know that from October 14th I'm going to be on maternity leave, probably coming back at some point in January, but no specified dates yet. But fear not! This podcast is one of my favourite things to do and I really value you guys, as listeners. I don't think I tell you enough. I'm often told by people in my life that I'm not very good at giving compliments and I think that has translated into my podcasting, and I don't tell you guys how much I appreciate you as much as other podcasters do, and I really do though. And as I said, I love recording this podcast, I love writing the content for the podcast, and I love doing interviews. So the podcast shall continue. We've already recorded, in fact, most of the episodes that are going to go out across my maternity leave. However, there will be some breaks. So in order to make sure we're giving you content consistently, we've planned to take a few breaks of just a week or two weeks here and there, where we're going to have a little pause in the content, just so that we can keep up with ourselves and make sure it keeps going through the whole maternity leave period. So the best thing you can do to make sure that that doesn't disrupt you and that you don't miss any of the episodes we put out there is to make sure that you subscribe to this podcast. So whatever podcast app you use, whether it's Apple, Spotify, Google podcasts, or we're on Amazon now as well, you can click the subscribe button and this podcast will be delivered to you every week, every week that we put one out. So please do make sure that you're subscribed so that you don't miss any of the episodes that we do put out there. Another thing that I'd like to encourage you to do, if you haven't done it already, is please, please, please leave us a review. So you might have seen the podcast is starting to do quite well in some of the charts and we're picking up a bit of traction, which is amazing. But the way that Apple decides how many people get to see this podcast is by how many reviews it's got. So please, if you haven't done so yet, leaving us a review on Apple or wherever you listen to your podcasts, it really makes a big difference to how many people can find us. So I'd really appreciate it if you could put the word out there for me just by leaving us a quick review.

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