Developing products and services
Course Summary
Are you tired of chasing grant funding?
Do you wish you had your own products or services you could sell?
If you answered Yes to these questions, this workshop is for you!
Heidi will cover how you can:
Identify product and service ideas
Decide which are viable
Get clear about who your paying customer is
The workshop is pre-recorded and available on demand. You'll receive a workbook to help you implement what you learn in your organisation.
Heidi shares her knowledge of how to generate product and service ideas, and ways to test and build your trading income. As competition for grants increases the ability to generate your own income is essential. It also gives you freedom and independence as you can spend the money how you choose - rather than on a pre-defined grant funded project, and you can generate surpluses to support with on-going business development and innovation (which is impossible if you're grant funded because funders only cover your actual costs).
Feedback on previous workshops includes:
“I found today’s session amazing and felt uplifted and no longer confused on the actions that I need to take for the business to move forward.”
“I was already aware of the principles but was good to see them explained again in a simple and engaging way. The two exercises were also useful.”
“Helping to bring together my thoughts on pricing, developing an understanding of the need to add value to our prices.”
“Very clear, simple and informative.”
“Very knowledgeable. Great content. I'll be looking at my pricing structure, creating a dream client list and looking at how I promote myself.”
Course Curriculum
Heidi Fisher
Heidi is the founder of Make an Impact CIC – a social enterprise that supports other social enterprises, charities, public sector agencies and for-purpose organisations to better measure, manage and communicate their impact.
Heidi has been supporting organisations with impact measurement and management for over 20 years, working across all sectors, but she particularly loves working with organisations delivering health and social care, employability and skills, and financial inclusion, and using a Social Return on Investment approach. Heidi also loves organisations that don’t just want to tick boxes but genuinely want to go above and beyond, and continually focus on maximising the impact they have.
Heidi is multi-award winning and received an MBE for Services to Innovation in Social Enterprise and to Impact Measurement in the 2020 New Year Honours.
Heidi has worked with over 3,000 social enterprises, ranging from start-ups through to those with over £1 billion of income supporting them to become more sustainable, develop their trading income and to better measure, manage and communicate the impact they have. Heidi shares her experience and knowledge through delivering workshops and regularly delivers for universities and enterprise programmes in the UK and also globally.
Heidi is the author of two books, "Impact First: The social entrepreneur's guide to measuring, managing and growing your impact" and “Social Enterprise: How to successfully set up and grow a social enterprise.” Her vision is a world where all businesses are social enterprises that positively impact people and the planet.
