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 [...]

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 [...]

Reflections on Shine

Just back from SHINE, the third annual unconference for social entrepreneurs: hundreds of social entrepreneurs, investors and supporters brought together by events producers germination and partners including UnLtd and School for Social Entrepreneurs. Swiftly following an incredibly inspiring presentation from Alexander Osterwalder that drew on the design process behind the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, my [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Monthly opportunities round up: funding, training and networking.

Learn more about impact measurement with Social Enterprise London’s free workshop, “Which impact measurement tool should I use?”  Held 15 October from 10-12PM at the East London Centre, register here. Voice10, UK’s landmark conference for social enterprise will be held in Wales in February 2010, attempting to provide answers to leading challenges faced by business [...]

The leap of faith and the lonely entrepreneur

Just read this very stimulating post on socialedge about what we expect from Exec Directors and whether its manageable within a single human being. Curtis Change write: They should carry around large cardboard placards with room for the additional titles placed upon them: ·   Chief Financial Officer ·   Chief Information Officer ·   Chief Development Officer [...]