As the first illustrative example of this form of social enterprise, consider a
community-based company that runs a facility that hosts community group activities.
This facility is of high enough quality, and in the right location, to house offices
suitable for a professional services provider such as a commercial legal practice. In
addition it has the capacity to host trade conferences. Therefore, the social enterprise
has the opportunity to engage in high margin activities such as lettings and
conferences which offer minimal social benefit but which maximise income and hence
impact positively on financial stability. Offering such services can impinge on the
ability to provide space for the core socially valued activity which the company was
set-up to deliver in the first place. For example, in place of an office the company could
allow a community group to use a room at minimal cost for some socially positive
group activity such as an aerobics class