Food for Thought: recent musings from experts in the sector.

Ippr’s “Youth Tracker” report explores how Britain’s young people are fairing in the recession and what we can do to support them. UnLtd’s latest Findings Paper explores how investment in the individual and their practical solutions to problems they face generates a ‘ripple effect,’ with the potential to create significant and lasting social change. Innovation [...]

Money Monthly: where it’s hidden and how to access it.

Live UnLtd is a youth participation programme which supports Young Social Entrepreneurs to build effective delivery models, taken on marketing activities, and more. Over the next 5 years, Live UnLtd hopes to reach over 20,000 young people living in England’s most disadvantaged communities. Innovation Exchange is seeking high-potential third sector innovation projects that could participate [...]

Training and Networking: get friendly with sector’s finest.

Business Mentoring for Social Entrepreneurs – Social Enterprise London is working in partnership with Business in the Community (BITC) in order to provide business mentoring to social entrepreneurs at all stages of growth. For more information see here. Winning Contracts – (26 May 2010) A free 2-day training programme, helping you win more contracts.  In [...]

Education Entrepreneurs: Funding, Investment, and Support Opportunities

After our event for education entrepreneurs with Teach First, we’ve been working hard at putting together a comprehensive spreadsheet on funding and support opportunities available to social entrepreneurs in the education space. Some of the highlights include: Thirty-five funding opportunities (investment, loans, grants), including: Impetus Trust: large-scale grants, loans, and support for organisations working with young people from [...]

What drives entrepreneurship?

At the Learning Launchpad, we support entrepreneurial ideas that create change and innovation across the UK education landscape. Our investees are creative, innovative and driven individuals that often lead us to ask ourselves the question “what drives entrepreneurship?” Recent studies have shown that a country’s social, cultural and political contexts must foster the environment and [...]

Food for Thought: inspiration and insight from the sector

“An Anatomy of Youth” – Demos’ latest report looks at what young people have to say about world they find themselves in and how they are meeting the challenges they face. “THE MOBILITY MANIFESTO” – A Sutton Trust report on cost‐effective ways to achieve greater social mobility through education, based on work by the Boston [...]

Working Rite is hiring a new COO

Working Rite is a dynamic and growing social enterprise delivering a unique work-based mentoring model for young people in Scotland and England. Theywill shortly be recruiting a Chief Operating Officer to guide theirgrowth, exploit new opportunities and put in place robust management systems. As well as playing a full senior management role, the COO would [...]

Money Monthly: where it’s hidden and how to access it.

Innovation Exchange is seeking high-potential third sector innovation projects that could participate in its new Green Next Practice programme, which will provide brokerage support to five or six third sector innovations with the potential to green public services. For more information and to apply see here. Deadline: Wednesday, 2nd June 2010. Innovation “Vouchers” up for [...]

Training and Networking: get friendly with sector’s finest.

We’ve decided to break up our ‘Monthly Opportunities Roundup’ into three sections– Training and Networking, which features the top upcoming events for social entrepreneurs; Money Monthly, which highlights opportunities for both cash and counsel on all things finance; and Food for Thought, a roundup of the latest publications and white papers on the sector.  Now, [...]

Education Entrepreneurs Meet-Up, 4 May

Friends of the Learning Launchpad: We would be delighted if you could join us on Tuesday the 4th of May for an exciting joint event brought to you by the Young Foundation’s Learning Launchpad team and Teach First’s Social Entrepreneurship Programme. The event is suited for entrepreneurs in the education space, funders, and supporters alike–the [...]