Learning from experience
Below is some information from previous franchising and replication projects which look at does and doesn't work well.
Flagship Firms
Flagship Firms was a franchising and replication project run by Social Firms UK between April 2004 and March 2006, funded by the SBS Phoenix Development Fund Building on the Best programme, to support the development of 15-20 high profile Social Firms with the potential to motivate and inspire others. Social Firms UK commissioned follow-up evaluation to explore the impact of the programme one year after the project end. The results of this comprehensive review, undertaken by an independent external evaluator, are set out in a detailed forty page report presented to the board of Social Firms UK. For more information, read:
- Flagship Firms project: outline of follow up evaluation report
- lessons learned from The Phoenix Development Fund social enterprise projects
Other useful resources
- workshop notes from 2007 conference on social franchising
- CAN website
- Beanstalk Magazine: 'Growth through social franchising' (CAN, April 2006) - about lessons learned from their social franchising programme.
See also
- Measuring value-creation in Social Firms: a do-it-yourself training manual for SROI (resource)
- Growth through social franchising (resource)
- Flagship Firms: outline of follow up evaluation report (resource)
- Investing in success: capturing the lessons learned from the Phoenix Development Fund social enterprise projects (research)