Social Business Plan Template - One Page Social Enterprise Plan

Sep 12, 2026

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Social Business Plan Template provides a structured, one-page planning framework for setting up a social enterprise. It guides development of an executive-summary overview, a customer-centered service description, and practical market research to define target markets, customers, competitors, and partners. The template further covers vision, mission, objectives, activities, people, earned income and overhead assumptions, detailed financial projections with spreadsheet templates, marketing, legal issues, sources of support, added value, and an action plan.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryForms

FormatPDF

Pages11

Reading Time4 min

AccessFree to download

Introduction

Your one page plan

Your service from your customer’s point of view

Market research

Vision, mission and objectives

What will you do? (your activities)

People

Earned income strategy

Your income projections in more detail

Your overheads

Financial projections – spreadsheet templates

Nuts and bolts

Marketing

Legal issues

Sources of support

Added value

Action plan

Social Business Plan Template Your one page plan ......................................................................................................... 3 Your service from your customer’s point of view ............................................................ 3 Market research .............................................................................................................. 3 Vision, mission and objectives ........................................................................................ 6 What will you do? (your activities) ................................................................................... 6 People ............................................................................................................................ 7 Earned income strategy .................................................................................................. 7 Your income projections in more detail........................................................................... 8 Your overheads ............................................................................................................... 8 Financial projections – spreadsheet templates ............................................................... 8 Nuts and bolts ................................................................................................................ 9 Marketing ........................................................................................................................ 9 Legal issues .................................................................................................................. 10 Sources of support ....................................................................................................... 10 Added value .................................................................................................................. 11 Action plan .................................................................................................................... 11 Introduction This template has been produced by The Social Business to give you an idea of the kind of things you’ll probably need to consider when setting up a social enterprise. We’ve tried to keep things simple – but there’s no getting away from the fact that there’s a fair bit to think about when you’re starting out. We believe that thinking things through properly can make a big difference – and that’s what we hope this template will help you to do. Some parts of the template will be more relevant to your social enterprise than others. There are lots of other templates out there – or you might just want to write your plan your way – but we hope that our plan is organised in a way which tells a story – and will therefore make sense to you and anyone who reads it. The electronic version of this plan has hyperlinks in the text, which link to useful sources of information – particularly our social business planning site. If you’rereading a hard copy of this, and would like an electronic version, please email [rob@thesocialbusiness.co.uk](rob@thesocialbusiness.co.uk or visit our business)[ or visit our business](rob@thesocialbusiness.co.uk or visit our business) planning site.1 This template isn’t exhaustive – there may be things to consider in your particular business which we haven’t included here . Please use it as a framework which stimulates you into thinking logically about your business – not asa 100%-foolproof social business-planning guide. If you think of something which should be added to this template, please get in touch with us at [rob@thesocialbusiness.co.uk](rob@thesocialbusiness.co.uk) This template is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoncommercialShare Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.2 1 [http://thesocialbusiness.typepad.com/social_business_plans/](http://thesocialbusiness.typepad.com/social_business_plans/) 2 This work is licensed under the

FAQs

What is the purpose of the “one page plan” section?

It serves as an executive summary that provides a quick overview of what the social enterprise will do, and it should be kept to one page or less.

What does the market research section ask you to cover?

It helps you explore the market, organized around your markets, your customers, and your competitors and partners, including size, trends, and opportunities.

How does the template support financial planning?

It includes earned income and overheads guidance and references financial projections with spreadsheet templates for more detailed income and cost assumptions.

Sep 12, 2026

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