Suffolk Enterprise Business Support is a local, friendly, experienced and helpful one-to-one business support resource for developing and growing enterprises in Suffolk.They can help whether you are thinking of starting an enterprise,launching your enterprise, problem-shooting or expanding it. Suffolk Enterprise Business Support is a social enterprise - and helping other social enterprises is a speciality. Some support to other social enterprises comes at no cost, dependending on circumstances.

SUFFOLK COASTAL DISTRICT COUNCIL

Website:www.suffolkcoastal.gov.uk

Suffolk Coastal issues over £150,000 a year to support local organisations that are providing useful services

or facilities across the district.These can either be capital grants, to pay or help pay for an expensive piece of equipment or building improvement,or revenue grants that are for more routine running or day-to-day costs.

First port of call for any group looking for new funding or to make their organisation more effective. Elle can advise on starting a group from scratch or on how to develop your group's activity including funding, planning and project management. While Elle is very busy, she is accessible and will tailor her expertise and

support to suit you.ICVS will also advise Saxmundham Community groups.

SAVO's mission is to support, inform, represent and develop voluntary and community action in Suffolk.

Suites 1-4, Station Hill,  Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.IP32 6AD

SENS is the trade association for social enterprises in Suffolk.

SENS is part of the Social Enterprise East of England (SEEE) regional network and is both a membership organisation and a strategy and policy organisation.

Website: http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/BusinessAndConsumer/RegenerationAnd

CommunityDevelopment/Funding/SuffolkSingleGateway/

The Suffolk Single Gateway was set up, by Suffolk County Council, as a 'one stop shop' for publicising and allocating county council grants, to voluntary and community groups. The aim is to improve ease of access to the funds available, in order to support your work by co-ordinating the application and decision making processes of the different funding streams.

Room 9, Castle Hill Community Centre, Highfield Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 6DG

Young Suffolk supports the children and young people's voluntary sector. It promotes and meets the needs and aspirations of young people by supporting the work of its members.

It is Suffolk ACRE's aim to help communities in Suffolk to identify and tackle their needs through community action. Suffolk ACRE's role is to support community groups voluntary organisations to undertake self-help activities and enable communities to take ownership for their own well-being.

A Local Strategic Partnership (LSPs) is a single non-statutory, multi-agency body, which matches local authority boundaries, and aims to bring together at a local level the different parts of the public, private, community and voluntary sectors.