School for Social Entrepreneurs overview

PEOPLE POWERED

Definition of Social Entrepreneur

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Credit: Pamela Hartigan - Schwab Foundation

Michael Young

• Open University• Labour Manifesto 1945• Consumers’

Association• Which? Magazine • Language Line (TIS) • & 40 others • School for Social

Entrepreneurs

Sheenagh Day Maison Bengal

Ros Spearing Ebony Horse Club

Tokunbo Ajasa-Oluwa Catch22 Magazine

What does SSE do?

And how?

An entrepreneurial individual

who is driven, committed, prone to action, persistent, engaged with their community, personally motivated, practical, resourceful, [ and needs no formal qualifications….]

…and wants to make it happen

Has an innovative idea for social change…

Expert Witnesses

Project Visits

Peer learning

So joins the SSE learning programme

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ACT

RECALL and REFLECT

INSIGHTS

UNDERTAKE NEXT ACTION

NEXTSTEPS

…which has an associated impact on the effectiveness of their organisation

MentoringOne to one tutoringand business advice

Tailored support, knowledge, and skills development for the individual…

Peer group

Practitionercontacts/info

Action learning

• Learning programmes running for 10 years

• Nearly 400 SSE Fellows around the UK have completed programmes

• Active schools in 7 locations (London, Belfast, East Mids, Fife, West Mids, Liverpool, Cornwall)

• Operates as social franchise (best practice + quality system)

• International developments in progress (Australia / China)

SSE information

School for Social Entrepreneurs

1997 20032002 2004 2006 2008 2009London

Ireland

E .Midlands

Scotland

W. Midlands

North West

South West

x2

Wales

North East

South East

Yorkshire

East

YorkshireInternational Schools

2007

x2

SSE growth

All schools / programmes

• 85% of organisations established at SSE are still in existence: strong survival rate

• 60% report increased turnover after attending SSE; on average, a five-fold increase

• 88% experience a growth in confidence and skills to lead their organisation

• Over 50% make 10 or more useful contacts that they attribute directly to SSE

• Over half of SSE Fellows’ organisations gain more than 50% income from trading

• For every 10 Fellows, 34 jobs and 70 volunteering positions are created

SSE evaluation

Private Business

Public Sector

Social Entrepreneurs

Voluntary & Community

Sector

Social Enterprise

Third Sector

Social entrepreneurs’ habitat

- individuals creating community-engaged, community-shaped organisations

- rooted in personal and particular:for sustainable, real, radical, long lasting change

- hardwiring diversity in leadership

- generating robust, responsive and sustainable solutions

- combining resourcefulness, opportunity and innovation in practical action

- developing business and life skills through practical learning

- outcomes, not process

Social entrepreneurship:

“The SSE is showing how we can take a fresh approach to social and economic renewal”

- Gordon Brown

“The School for Social Entrepreneurs is in the vanguard of training a new generation of social entrepreneurs, and must be congratulated on its success in promoting better understanding of social enterprise and embedding the desire to tackle injustice through community action” - Ed Miliband MP, Minister for Energy + Environment

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