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 [...]

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, [...]

This is your chance to SHINE

SHINE “Unconference” for Social Entreprenerus 2010, London, May 13th-15th If you are a new, growing or seasoned social entrepreneur get yourself down to the SHINE unconference this May to be part of the three day movement designed to get you what you need. The event has been specifically designed to be the opposite of a traditional [...]

Monthly Opportunities Roundup: funding, training, and networking.

Schools Minister Iain Wright invite  third sector organisations to bid for a share of up to £10 million to raise the aspirations of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The fourth round of the Youth Sector Development Fund (YSDF) will focus on supporting the aims of the Government’s Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) Strategy published last [...]