Match trading and the behaviours of community businesses and social enterprises

Jonathan Roberts, Kerryn Krige and Julian Le Grand

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Abstract: There has been long-standing interest among UK policymakers in improving the resilience and stability of social ventures by encouraging a move away from state and philanthropic grants towards earned income models and a commercial mindset. A recent development has been a set of ‘enterprise grants’ that explicitly seek to support the commercial development of social organisations. This report presents findings from a qualitative study that explored the Match Trading programme, an innovative enterprise grant mechanism designed to enable community businesses and social enterprises to strengthen their commercial capacity and financial sustainability.

JEL-codes: F3 G3 J01 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 69 pages
Date: 2026-02
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