For Love and Money

Social enterprises - organisations that trade for a social or environmental purpose - are a diverse and rapidly growing part of the third sector. However, the distinctive governance challenges they face are not well established.

For Love and Money is the result of research commissioned by The Governance Hub, in partnership with the Social Enterprise Coalition, and conducted by third sector specialists from the Open University. It aims to:

• Identify any characteristics of governance practices specific or distinctive to social enterprises
• Identify and examine the governance support needs of social enterprises, the specific sources of governance support they currently access and the limitations and gaps in this provision
• Explore how Governance Hub strategies, services and resources might be communicated, adapted, or extended to meet the needs of social enterprises

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