Pelican Achievements

Enterprising solutions to regeneration

Developing sustainable strategies

Developing the business plan and marketing strategy a new business centre in Sheffield
Asset based development for emerging development trusts

£3.1 to aid sustainability for the voluntary and community sector in Doncaster
£3.5 to pilot innovative women's enterprise focussed activities across the UK and Europe (EQUAL programme)
Assembling the £12.5m finance package needed to build a new business centre
£1.5 million from Department for International Development (DfID), the International Community Fund and World Bank for disadvantaged Roma communities in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia
£2m EQUAL programme funds, for social enterprise development and support across South Yorkshire

Devising the strategy for the EQUAL, Accelerating Women's Enterprise Development Partnership
Developing the social enterprise strategy for the Amahlathi region, South Africa, as part of the Commonwealth Association for Local Development and Community Action (COMMACT) Social Economy Task Force

Co-ordinating the Accelerating Women's Enterprise Development Partnership
Supporting the Social Enterprise Action in South Yorkshire Development Partnership (SEASY)
Developing transnational networks between social enterprises in the UK and Slovenia

Building the regional umbrella, Women's Business Network (North West) Ltd to a membership of 50 networks
Supporting the creation of over 20 new Women's Business Networks
Setting up national, regional and sub regional third sector networks

Quality assurance for Social Enterprises
Statement of Recommended Accounting Practice (SORP) and what it means for charities
Understanding Women's Enterprise Support

Evaluation of Innova SME support, a European project, supported by Leonardo da Vinci II
Social accounting and auditing, using the Social Audit Network (SAN) model
Developing quality of life indicators, the 'Communities Count' method
Contributing to Local Multiplier 3 (LM3) model development; the five capitals model
Inspiring Women’s Enterprise, Merseyside Objective 1
Accelerating Women’s Enterprise: A Celebration, EQUAL ESF programme
Evaluating social enterprise support in South Yorkshire and Northumberland

Developing an evaluation tool to capture and measure the social impact of the social economy sector
Mapping and feasibility study to inform needs analyses; appraisal and evaluation of a construction and training social enterprise
Research to inform the development of improved, women friendly and targeted services to increase the number of women starting up and growing businesses
Running OPERA focus groups