When developing any new activity you should develop a business plan. You may want to completely revise your whole organisation’s business plan to ensure that your new activity is an integral part of the organisation’s plans or you can start by developing a business plan just for your new activity or trading development.

There is plenty of information on developing a business plan and support that you can access. Your business plan will take into consideration and include many other sections in this resource.

Links and Tools
	Business plan test Testing your business plan before you make it public. Page 22 Tool 2.6 – (Finance Hub)
	‘A guide to writing your business plan’   (Enterprise Solutions Northamptonshire)
	Writing a Business Plan - understanding business plans and how to use them (gov.uk)
	‘Guide to writing your finance plan’   (Enterprise Solutions Northamptonshire)
Case studies
	Release - importance of business planning
	Stonebridge City Farm - importance of business planning
	Community Enterprise Derby - improtance of business planning

Key
Basic		Intermediate
Advanced		Book
Website or download		Worksheet
Information/guide alone		Training