Welcome to SmithMartin Resources for your project, setting, school or community business idea.  SmithMartin LLP - comprising Dolphin Booksellers, Thirdsectorweb and City Stories too. A range of services, working in partnership with you, to turn your ideas and project creativity into reality. You can find details of our partnership services through this link ... A brief service prospectus (.pdf/365Kb) You can send us a message from our feedback page  changethinking - our partnership blog for news, ideas, resources or just things we want to say. You can also find an ever growing list of downloadable resources on our SmithMartin archive page - all free and always available. Our current featured document... Climbing the Ladder - Finance for Social Enterprise (.pdf download/221Kb) An information guide from Social Enterprise London Edited by Andrew Bibby A useful road map for social enterprise creation and financing. We have featured the work of Andrew Bibby before and although published some three or four years ago, we think that this revised edition is well worth revisiting in the current climate. Community groups and charities may be gearing up to start their community business, in the current economic context, to ensure services continue. This publication can help. What should our cashflow contain? What goes into our business plan? What should the financial reporting look like? There is no substitute for contemporary professional advice, but Step by Step is a great primer to get your mission planning started. If our partnership can help in any way with your social or community business development do contact Tim Smith, our lead partner on social enterprise creation. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Below on this page you can find a range of services and resources that SmithMartin LLP can provide to support this delivery for you. You can send us a brief contact message here. You may find the featured document above many other useful information resources for community business, schools, children's centres and social enterprise on our archive page. What else our partnership delivers... Strategic development of social enterprise Operational planning and the design and delivery of ethical distribution systems Funding advice and governance support across a variety of sectors - social enterprise, charity and education Charity or community business growth New capital or revenue project management - creation or change In partnership with our selected suppliers we also deliver services and resources - all designed to help you grow and develop your children's centre, school project or programme, charity, community business or social enterprise. You can see details of our ethical, social business trading styles below on this page. We are members of Ethical Junction, Social Enterprise London,  4Children, DayCare Trust,  Better Payment Practice, Learning through Landscapes and the School Library Association Our business services brochure is also available on our archive page  - please take a copy with our compliments. Recent site updates ... We are happy to work with clients in the preparation of projects - recognising that complex decisions to spend or facilitate necessarily take time. Read more on our news page here We have recently upgraded our partnership blogs. Read our recent article about them, to see the range of subjects we cover. Updated: Our list of partner suppliers - we recommend them Organisations who can supply resources complimentary to your project or setting.  SmithMartin is happy to work in conjunction with our partners to deliver projects. Promoting knowledge and information - our bookshops offer an always fresh range of titles to compliment our services Social Business books  and books for children  SmithMartin supports open knowledge sharing and literacy development. Send friends, family or colleagues a new book - courtesy of Amazon.co.uk You can see SmithMartin ethical trading styles below... Thirdsectorweb.co.uk Community web design, hosting and email. From a simple and elegant static site to interactive surveys, online newsletters, staff and parent bulletin boards or file share spaces...we can create  secure bespoke solutions for your on-line community. Providing an accessible, clear and affordable web presence for your sector. Read more... City Stories Our project to bring authors, storytellers and illustrators into communities. We bring events, people and books.   We work with you to make the occasion free at the point of delivery for families and children. We give away books as part of our project to make starting your first library easy. We build a community web site to support the event and help to start a community children's book group - to keep the reading effect going and growing.  Read more... Dolphinbooksellers.co.uk Our children's books and literacy support retail web service. Discounts and up to date children's book news and features always available. Your purchases are always safely delivered by Amazon. We are always adding new titles to our lists - helping us bring a broad range of books for children's centres, schools and community groups. Read more... Dolphinbookbox.co.uk Resource procurement of goods, services and print/graphic design. Whether you are sourcing MultiScreen display equipment, children's books, a library re-design, signage, shelters to make the most of your inside/outside strategies, art for your reception area or print marketing... Read more.... Offering schools, children centres, childcare settings and community groups a one-stop shop for services that help promote and deliver your projects...and great children's books too as always. Read more... Pausing to reflect... 'The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them'. Antoine de Saint-Exupery -  French aviator and writer, 1900-1944  See his Wikipedia page here. .