Between 2009-2011 CWVYS was commissioned by the Welsh Government to facilitate the research and publishing of Youth Work Methodology Handbooks or best practice guides for youth workers in Wales. CWVYS facilitated this work by bringing together voluntary youth organisations and maintained local authority youth services. This document is part of a library of Good Practice Methodology Handbooks for Youth Work in Wales. 

This handbook explores Social Enterprise and considers how young people and youth work organisations might go about setting one up. 

The handbook is intended to give some ideas, advice, guidance and practical tools to help an organisation wishing to develop a social enterprise. Social enterprise is about running as a Business with the aim of generating a profit as well as having social aims. As a result it is important to use business tools and planning. None of the methods outlined in this handbook will be new to people and a number are using existing youth work models but they are ones that are applicable or can be adapted to good business practice. 

[CWVYS does not represent that the information contained in the handbook is accurate, comprehensive, verified or complete, and shall accept no liability for the accuracy or completeness of the information contained in this website or for any reliance placed by any person on the information.]