7 Consolidation and Future Planning Week 20
Future Planning, Evaluation and Consolidation Sustainability and Growth
The trained mentors from Croatia, France and Italy who delivered this programme in their respective locations, to enhance the effectiveness of the EPGs by supporting them to start up social enterprises, provided critical insights and reflections that informed the finalised curriculum as presented here. You can find the Mentor Profiles within the Project Handbook.
b. Developing the Toolkit
The project methodological tool comprised four separate but complementary tools which are available within the Project Handbook; the Mentor Guide, Self-Assessment Tool( Business Diary), Evaluation Tool( to measure the participants’ learning) and the Mentor Training programme( to ensure consistency in delivering the training across different cultural contexts). Whilst the toolkit was developed so that each took can be used independently, and separately, to replicate the Social Start Up Methodology effectively, all components should be used together due to their complementary nature. As the Social Start Up Project was focused upon EPGs operating within the agri-food sector, the toolkit’ s Mentor Guide and the Self Assessment Tool( Business Diary) both included an informative section entitled Food Safety, Hygiene, Quality and Certification which was developed by the project partner Parco 3A specifically for this programme.
a. Mentor Guide
b. Self Assessment Tool( Business Diary)
The Mentor Guide is a step by step guide for those who wish to support their EPG members in starting up a social enterprise. The Guide provides all the content needed for leading seven sequential training sessions, accompanied by planning and reflection tools to enhance the mentor’ s overall mentoring skills. We recommend that the whole Guide is read before embarking on the Social Start Up journey so that mentors are aware of the process and end point from the beginning. This approach allows the mentors to effectively lead all the training sessions.
This Business Diary is a learning and reflective tool to help participants to chart their team’ s progress in starting up a social enterprise. Ideally, the Business Diary will be used in conjunction with a mentor led social start up training programme, but it can also be used on its own. The Business Diary guides the participants and their team members through seven sequential training sessions, and provides introductory content, planning and reflection tools to support their social enterprise start up process. We recommend that participants read through the whole Business
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