Once stakeholders can clarify the relevance, feasibility and sustainability of a potential enterprise (network), the legal frameworks that will provide the best support can be considered. It is important that legal identities are driven by values, principles and social enterprise model considerations together because each legal model enables and constrains how a social enterprise model can be operationalised. After using these learning and development techniques to develop a FairShares Canvass, the impact of four legal options (companies, co-operatives, partnerships and associations) can be considered to understand how legal frameworks will impact on the achievement of purpose(s).