A quick update on where we’re at with our launch as a Social Enterprise and activity during August.
We are on our way. It’s been a long journey but we’ve now received our Community Interest Company (CIC) status from Companies House and the CIC regulator.
For those who dont know what a CIC is, it is a business that puts purpose before profit. It can still make a profit and ours will, but the profits are used to fulfil a community purpose.
What we’ve got planned
We’re going to shake things up a bit. We’ll be supporting positive change across the Borough of St Helens. Our CIC will use the profits it generates to fund new projects and ideas across the Borough. At the same time we will be supporting the local economy and helping Businesses across the Borough get more attention, both here and further afield.
The first version of our website is now live, this will be updated again in a few weeks to provide an even better experience for visitors.
The Business supporter / advertiser program is under development and will be launched early October
Some statistics for the month of August
Facebook Page
12,090 likes. During August our posts reached 234,534 people and engaged with 246,628 people. (Engagement = likes, comments, shares)
Twitter
3,982 follows. During August our Tweets created 383,000 impressions. An impression means the number of times our tweets have been delivered to other Twitter account’s timeline.
#StHelensHour – The weekly Twitter Networking Hour for the borough
7th August 2017
176 contributors, 1,900 tweets, reached 385,000 people
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Storyboard of all the tweets
14th August 2017
310 contributors, 1,600 tweets, reached 433,000 people
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Storyboard of tweets
21st August 2017
146 contributors, 1,400 tweets, reached 312,000 people
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Storyboard of tweets
28th August 2017
105 contributors, 667 tweets, reached 253,000 people
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Storyboard of tweets
Month of August 2017
1,300 contributors, 8,000 tweets, reached 2,600,000 people
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Have a great month everybody
Mike Ashworth
