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SOCIAL
ENTREPRENEURS
IN SOCIAL
HOUSING
Cliff Prior, CEO UnLtd UK
Web: www.unltd.org.uk
Twitter: @UnLtd @cliffprior #socent
Social Enterprise and Housing
Conference and Exhibition 2014
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Narrow social
enterprise
Broader social enterprise
Pure for profit business
Ethical business
Equity based social
business
Asset locked social
enterprise
Trading charity or
coop
Grant funded
charity or coop
Pure voluntary
group
THE SPECTRUM
Giving names to the range of models
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OUR APPROACH
Scouting: to find the most social and entrepreneurial
people
Filtering: to select for eligibility and then employ
entrepreneurial people to judge the best talent
Engaging: to listen and find out what will help them
move forward
Connecting: to connect them to the support tailored to
their needs – where they are now, where they can go
next:
• Seed funds
• Development support
• Networking and connections
Scout, filter, engage, connect
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WHO ARE...
People with:
• Passion to solve a social problem
Who have:
• An idea for a solution
• Entrepreneurial qualities
Who are:
• Resilient and resourceful
• Determined to make their idea a reality
Social entrepreneurs?
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4 in every 1000
People are trying to
start a social venture
28 in every 1000
Lead one now
2 in every 1000
Create social enterprises
Most become micro ventures
Some reach national and global scale
THE JOURNEY
How early stage social entrepreneurs develop
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Developing
an idea:
blueprint
Doing It:
market
testing
Going full
time: getting
sustainable
Going beyond
just you:
growth
SOME JUMP THE STEPS
Many small A few big
OUR AWARDS
Focus on the critical steps in the journey
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Developing
an idea:
blueprint
Doing It:
market
testing
Going full
time: getting
sustainable
Going beyond
just you:
growth
TRY IT>>> DO IT>>> BUILD IT
FAST GROWTH>>>
VENTURE >>
CHALLENGE>
WHO WE REACH
The work in numbers
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53%
Equal men and women
32%
Peak age 35-49, range 11 to 90+
Degree or professionally
qualified
Minority ethnic (12% population)
A third are from 20% most
deprived areas
THE IMPACT
75% survival
at 3 years plus 9% on next idea
95% created positive social capital
62,000
volunteers
Survey of 1014 Award Winners showed:
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£45m Estimated annual
wage value of jobs
created by survey
sample of 1,000
1.2m Total number of
beneficiaries
reached by 1,000
survey sample in
one year
97% Former award winners who say UnLtd
award was important in getting
venture to its current position
• Housing agencies supporting start up social entrepreneurs in
their tenant group or communities
• Social entrepreneurship as your innovation platform
• Developing social enterprises as part of your value chain
• Social ventures that can help you achieve your goals
• Housing agencies as social investors
• Corporate social entrepreneurship
THE OPTIONS
Solutions for social housing
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• Housing agencies supporting start up social
entrepreneurs in their tenant group or communities
• Social entrepreneurship as your innovation platform
• Developing social enterprises as part of your value chain
• Social ventures that can help you achieve your goals
• Housing agencies as social investors
• Corporate social entrepreneurship
THE OPTIONS
Solutions for social housing
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• The Building Futures programme is about:
–Recognising the value and role of social housing agencies
– Investing in communities, ideas and individuals
• Pilot with 15 Housing Associations to develop their own
version of the programme that works for their organisation and
the communities with which they operate.
• Co-investing in the communities
• Support and training to make UnLtd’s awards to young people
in their neighbourhoods
• Sharing best practice, skills and experience across the
network.
BUILDING FUTURES
Solutions for social housing
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BUILDING FUTURES
The programme in detail
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• Launched November 2013- November 2014
• 15 National Partners across England, Scotland &
Wales
• UnLtd invested £137,000 as an awards pot, split
between the partners
• The partner’s contribution totals £124,000
• Minimum of ten awards per partner to young people
aged 16-21 years old.
• Network Development – Peer to Peer and Peer to
Expert
• Culture change engaging all departments
BUILDING FUTURES
Results and learning to date
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• Commitment to continue beyond the first year
• Culture change, awareness, skill development
• Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds can
step forward as leaders for social and economic
value
How can you help social entrepreneurs?
• Seed funding, Skills exchange/ Incubation of ideas/
Hosting
How can you get involved/ find out more?
BIG VENTURE CHALLENGE
People, markets, and money
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The Big Venture Challenge supports ambitious social entrepreneurs
to scale up their work via intense support and matched investment.
• Each cohort participates for 12 months
• World class development support
• Match-funding in the form of a ‘repayable grant’
• Targeted ‘scouting’, targeted support, targeted networks
UPTURN ENTERPRISES
Anwar Ali
17 #4socents
Anwar Ali, Upturn Enterprises Ltd
Bespoke consultancy for individual Housing Associations
to deliver both social targets and cost savings
Upturn helps people on the journey towards employment.
Upturn creates volunteering opportunities, apprenticeship
places, jobs and a range of accredited training.
Key customers include Guinness Northern and Regenda
Housing Associations.
2014 BVC Award Winner
JOBS AT HOME
Neil Jarrett
18 #4socents
Neil Jarrett, Jobs at home Ltd
A social enterprise that provides jobs and skills for
unemployed social housing residents.
Delivers repairs and maintenance contract work for
member housing associations
Employs and trains their residents to carry out the work.
Prospective BVC
Award Winner
TUTORS UNITED
Joel Davis
19 #4socents
Joel Davis, Tutors United
A tutoring service, employing university students from
disadvantaged backgrounds, and providing affordable
private tutoring to primary school pupils from
disadvantaged and migrant backgrounds.
Tutors United brings education back home, including
private tuition classes for Housing Association tenants.
LIVE Award Winner
and prospective
BVC Award Winner
EMPOWER COMMUNITY
Alex Grayson
20 #4socents
Empower Community
• A high impact, ambitious social venture that aims to
accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy.
• Contract with local authorities and social housing landlords
to install solar PV across 1000s of homes.
• Secures institutional investment for the installation, repaying
investors from the government backed feed in tariff.
• Surplus profits go into a community fund to support local
environmental projects.
UnLtd provided critical early stage investment.
Empower then raised a seed round of £450K
from social investors (Panapur, Sainsburys
Charitable Trust and National Energy
Foundation.) Just secured a £10million deal
to provide solar panels across social housing
in Sunderland.
VALUE CHAIN WORK
Example: Wates and “closer to fewer”
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• a supply chain methodology to develop sub
contractors over time, encouraging innovation and
value creation
• includes Social Enterprises developing long-term
supply partnerships
• benefits commercial competitiveness, provides
employment opportunities for the disadvantaged,
creates new jobs and growth opportunities for local
communities
• commitment to engage with at least one Social
Enterprise on every construction project
• to work with a range of Social Enterprises that become
strategic partners, or preferred or approved suppliers
THANK YOU
We’re happy to talk further
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