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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Now we are (nearly) three

As we come up to the Learning Launchpad’s third birthday, it feels like the right time to reflect on the ups and downs of the past three years and ponder our future. Since partnering with Edge to develop the Learning Launchpad fund, we’ve achieved a whole lot. Many of our investees have secured major commitments [...]

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 [...]