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Community Business Success Guide - Contracted & Commissioned Services

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Sarah Thelwall

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This guide explores how community businesses can develop income streams through winning contracts to provide services for their community. The guide draws on the financial accounts of 60 community businesses who have been commissioned to provide services through tendering for contracts, to provide some benchmarks to help you with your own business development. We’ve drawn up some guidelines, hints and tips from what we’ve learned to help your community businesses flourish.