4.4 Resource Mobilisation

• The concept of resource mobilisation for social enterprise
• Developing a low-cost budget for social enterprise development
• Planning for resource gathering to implement a social enterprise plan
• Accountability for mobilised resources

• analyse the concept of resource mobilisation for social enterprise
• develop a low-cost budget for social enterprise development
• plan for resource gathering for implementation of a social enterprise plan
• recognise the role of resource mobilisation for social enterprise

“How do you start something when you have no money?”

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1. Getting what you need
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Why money is only one kind of resource, and how to find the others.
2. Budgeting and accounting
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   A budget that survives contact with reality, and records that protect everyone.
3. Mapping what the plan actually needs
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Resource mobilisation starts with a complete list from the 4.3 plan - money is one column, not the whole map.
4. In-kind routes that actually work
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Borrow, share, hire, offcuts, work days and pre-sales - the non-cash column with Kenyan examples that survive a sceptical trader.
5. Asking a local partner
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   A specific, reciprocal request a trader can accept - and why the head teacher must see it first.
6. Slow money: funds, grants and waiting
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Ward funds, youth funds and NGOs can help, but they are slow and paper-heavy - so they are not how you fund week 1.
7. Building the low-cost budget
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Every item listed, priced at the duka not guessed, marked fixed or variable, zero-cost rows shown, ten percent contingency added.
8. Timing, records and reporting back
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Week-1 cash is a different question from profit; two signatories, receipts and unasked reports protect the honest treasurer and the contributors.