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Creating the common ground
to help social entrepreneurs
start up and thrive wherever they are
Shahed Molvi, Programme Performance Lead, UnLtd
San Sebastian
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CONTENTS
1. Our Mission and Vision
Who we are, why we are here and what we are setting out
to achieve
2. Our Approach
What we do, who we work with and how we do it.
3. Our activities
What our activity looks like - programmes, experimentation,
ecosystem development
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OUR MISSION and VISION
Our Vision
Our vision is for a world where people act to make it better.
Our Mission
Our mission is to reach out and unleash the energies of people who can
transform the world in which they live.
We call these people social entrepreneurs.
Our Role
Our Role is to be the entrepreneurial change agent in the rapidly growing
ecosystem for social entrepreneurs. We want to make support for social
entrepreneurs fully accessible – wherever they are
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WHO ARE...
Social entrepreneurs
People with:
• Potential to make positive change
• Passion to solve a social problem
238,000
People in UK trying to
start a social venture
(0.4% of population)
100,000
Who have:
• An idea for a solution
Create social enterprises
(0.2% of population)
• Entrepreneurial qualities
Who are:
Leading one now
(2.8% of population)
• Resilient and resourceful
• Determined to act and make their
idea a reality
1.7m
UNLTD’s STRATEGY
THREE MAIN AREAS OF FOCUS
• Supporting social entrepreneurs to start-up
• Supporting those with more established
ventures to scale-up
• Developing the ecosystem of support for
social entrepreneurs to make it easier for
people to find help, get started, and thrive
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Our Work
Backing social entrepreneurs
We back around 1000 people each year to start their own
ventures for social or environmental benefit, with a mix of
cash, development support and networking.
We then support around 50 per year to get to scale, with more
intensive support.
We support other agencies in the UK and internationally to
develop their own start up social entrepreneur support
programmes.
The Awards
Funding tailored to the journey stage
TRY IT
• Up to £500
• To test an idea
• To develop
confidence and
entrepreneurial
skills
DO IT
• Up to £5,000
• For exceptional
people to start
their journeys,
building
entrepreneurial
skill and
capacity
BUILD IT
• Up to £15,000
• For existing
ventures
ambitious to
grow, but not
necessarily to
national scale
FAST
GROWTH
• Up to £20,000
• Can be given to
ventures at any
stage of
development
• For people
ambitious to
scale rapidly
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OUR SUPPORT MODEL
Scout, filter, engage, connect
Scouting: We go out and find the most
social and entrepreneurial people
Filtering: We select for eligibility & employ
entrepreneurial people to judge the best
Engaging: We listen and find out what will
help them move forward
Connecting: We connect them to the
support tailored to their needs –
Seed funds – Support – Connections
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UNLTD CONNECT
Social Entrepreneurs
Professionals
Peers
Social Impact
Corporate clients that provide people, expertise, pro bono support,
finance and in-kind venues include:
Actis, EY, Deutsche Bank, Hogan Lovells, DLA Piper, JP Morgan,
PA Consulting, Thomson Reuters (TrustLaw Connect), Google
(Google Campus), Santander, RBS, Centrica.
Total financial value of pro bono support & resources provided by our
partners in 2013/14 was: £1.4M - Breakdown:
216 individual 1:1 matches (value: £1.2M)
94 social entrepreneurs supported through Pro Bono clinics &
workshops (value: £108K)
417 social entrepreneurs reached through webinars & sector
events (value: £18K)
28 free venues for events & meetings (value: £14K)
Revenue raised through corporate partners: (£120K)
AWARD MAKING: HEADLINES 2003-2014
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Since 2003, UnLtd and our partners have given out over 12,000 Awards to support individuals and small groups
of people to start up or grow social ventures – that’s over £45 million cash directly to social entrepreneurs.
12,884 Awards
Number of Awards distributed to social
entrepreneurs, by UnLtd directly or
through our partners
21,700 people
People receiving these Awards,
individually or as part of small groups.
We call these people ‘Award Winners’
£45.7 million
Total cash distributed to social
entrepreneurs as Awards
Luke Rodgers of Foster Focus, winner of the Young Social
Entrepreneur Award (judges choice) at the inaugural Lived
It Awards.
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WHO WE REACH
Our work in numbers
Peak age 35-49, range 11 to 90+
Equal men and women
A third are from 20% most
deprived areas
32%
Minority ethnic (12% population)
53%
Degree or professionally
qualified
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OUR IMPACT
Survey of 1014 Award Winners showed:
75% survival
at 3 years plus 9% on next idea
95% created positive social capital
62,000
volunteers
£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
Former award winners who say UnLtd
award was important in getting
venture to its current position
97%
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3. OUR ACTIVITIES
A description of our programmes of work, our
experiments, how we share and influence
• Headlines of our award making and partnerships
• Description of our ecosystem development,
knowledge, learning and networks
UnLtd UK latest initiatives
Tower Hamlets (JP Morgan)
Global UnLtd learning network
2 year programme aimed at developing the eco system of
support for young people locally in the London Borough of
Tower Hamlets funded by JP Morgan. Partners include Tower
Hamlets College, Queen Mary, Student Hubs and NACUE.
http://thseen.org.uk/
UnLtd is building a network of early stage support
agencies on a shared learning model, building out to a
global learning network of over 40 support
organisations in 29 countries
http://gsen.unltd.org.uk
Higher & Further Education ecosystem
Helping 56 universities and 30 further education colleges to develop
their own in-house start up social entrepreneur programmes.
Match funds, development support, formation of a peer learning
network. Aim is to make this the norm across UK HE and FE.
www..unltd.org.uk/journey/hefce
Ecosystem building
Building on the work in education, a long term approach to inspiring
and supporting mainstream agencies to support start up social
entrepreneurs, sector by sector. With 238000 people in the UK
trying to start a social venture (source: GEM), it is clear that niche
specialist agencies can’t meet the demand alone: building an
ecosystem of support, & supporting the supporters, is the solution.
UnLtd Research
Working with the world’s largest cohort of early stage social
entrepreneurs creates a unique opportunity to learn about who
makes a successful social entrepreneur, how best to support
them, and what they can achieve. We welcome research
partnerships. To see our findings to date, go to
http://www.unltd.org.uk/news/research-publications
Big Venture Challenge
Highly successful challenge programme to find the
social entrepreneurs and ventures with the highest
ambition and potential for major and rapid growth.
Now in phase 2, with 3 cohorts of 10 per year. Match
funds and intensive support to attract angel stage
first risk investors. www..unltd.org.uk/bvc
Wayra UnLtd
50:50 partnership with Telefonica’s Wayra tech
incubator arm, hothousing the UK’s best digital and
mobile social startups. Launched in October 2013
with the first cohort of 10 social entrepreneurs.
http://wayra.unltd.org.uk/
Santander
3-year programme offering support for ambitious
social entrepreneurs wanting to grow their ventures.
The aim is to provide early stage support to ventures
with future high growth potential and intensive
acceleration services for those that are ready to
scale up rapidly.
https://unltd.org.uk/?s=Santander
Read more about our work as entrepreneurial change agent on http://www.unltd.org.uk
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BUILDING ECOSYSTEMS OF SUPPORT
We now have over 170 delivery partners in a variety of areas, supporting social entrepreneurs where they live
and work.
We share our knowledge and learning from
practice to enable others to adopt, adapt, embed
and amplify support for social entrepreneurship.
Our approach enables partners to:
INSPIRE by
demonstrating social
entrepreneurs in action
By the end of 2013/14, we have an increased
support for social entrepreneurs through many
different routes:
ADOPT our values,
and sometimes our
model
Education
EMBED support for
social entrepreneurs
into their own work and
organisation
AMPLIFY it, providing
more support to more
social entrepreneurs,
and encouraging
others to the do the
same.
Housing
ADAPT the model for
their sector/locality
Communities
Social Entrepreneurs
as supporters
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KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, NETWORKS
In order to create a fully functioning ecosystem we recognise the value of convening our partners and social
entrepreneurs to share knowledge and learning through and with each other
We are creating the time and space for partners and people to share and learn
Networks
•42 GSEN
•Spark
•Eight University
clusters
•Countless
spontaneous
networks
•Award Cohorts
•Incubators
•and the spontaneous
networks
Sharing
Resources
•Stories, Videos
•Template, Toolkits
•Measurement,
Reporting
Learning
together
Inspiring,
Experimenting
•Webinars
•SEE Change
Platform
•Un Conferences
•Innovation in
support
•New SE
approaches
•New Backers
Know
How
•Better Support
•New Methods of
Support
•Data on Supporters
Supporters of Social Entrepreneurs
•Contacts
•Stories, Videos
•Toolkits
•Workshops
•Boot camps
•Social Futures
Social Entrepreneurs
•Dream Act Inspire
•Expert Panels
•Better Solutions
•Data on Social
Entrepreneurs
A quickly expanding global network
With already 42 GSEN members in 29 countries and over 170 delivery partners
@UnLtdHK
Member organisations
Membership in discussion
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THANK YOU
• [email protected]
• 123 Whitecross Street, London, EC1Y 8JJ
• +44 207 566 1100
@UnLtd
facebook.com/UnLtd
unltd.org.uk