Learning Launchpad selection workshop February 2010

Check out the clips of our Learning Launchpad selection workshop held at the Young Foundation in February.

Jack on sustainability

more about “Sustainability“, posted with vodpod   This is the excellent presentation Jack gave on sustainability at our workshop on 19 February. And follow the link if you would like to see the other presentation from the day about Working with Young People.

Miss out on investment this time? Here’s why…

With the latest round of Learning Launchpad investment all but done and dusted (watch this space to find out who the lucky ones were), it’s only fair that we let you know the reasons why we might not have selected your idea this time. A lot of our feedback for Round 1 still holds but [...]

And the winners are…

After receiving 275 applications back in July, we have selected four social enterprises for investment. We believe these guys have what it takes to change the way young people learn in Britain. What do you think? Space Unlimited Heather Sim is the founder of Space Unlimited, the UK’s most unusual consultancy where teenagers are the [...]

Time flies

Hope you all had a great social enterprise day yesterday. Quick note to say that the application deadline has been put back to Monday 8th January so you’ve got 6 whole weeks extra to get your applications in. Our portfolio has now grown to 14 really exciting ventures, 7 of which we are still giving [...]

Our top 12 finalists – Learning Launchpad fund summer ’09

After receiving 275 applications to the Learning Launchpad fund for our summer round, we managed to get down to 12 finalists who were invited to a workshop day at the Young Foundation. We had excellent presentations from Mei Yee Hui from Social Enterprise London, Kate Lee from City Life Ltd and Sarah Alderson from TimeBank. [...]

From tiny acorns…

We received a whopping 275 applications to Round 2 of the Learning Launchpad fund. We felt that 110 of these were eligible for investment and expert reviewers from successful web start ups, national volunteering charities and central government have joined us to score these applications against our investment criteria. We blogged feedback to unsuccessful applicants [...]

And the winners are…

We are delighted to announce that, after reviewing over 290 applications, the Learning Launchpad has decided to invest in the three ideas that we think have the most potential to have a national impact on young people’s aspirations and achievements in Britain. They are: • Sandy Campbell and Alan Nicholl from Working Rite who are [...]

Still time to get your applications in

If you’re worrying about whether you’re still in time to send in your applications, worry not. We’ve rejigged the application deadlines for the next two rounds of Learning Launchpad fund investment and the new deadline is now Wednesday 15th July. After that, your next chance to wow us with your smart ideas to revamp British [...]

Harlem’s promise – lessons from America

We read this interesting article about Harlem’s Children’s Zones this weekend. Roland Fryer, a Harvard economist, has done some work showing that the charter schools run by HCZ have amazing results. In his words “they have changed my life as an economist”. If schools like the Promise Academy work in closing the gap between black [...]