UnLtd

💸 Funding Opportunity 💸 📣 Calling all youth-facing social entrepreneurs 📣 Focusing on people who have experienced systemic inequity, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation offers a Youth Fund of up to £150,000 over 3 years. The grant aims to address the root causes of inequity and injustice by supporting individuals whose lived experiences provide valuable insights for driving meaningful change. ⚖️ 🎯 In order to receive Paul Hamlyn Foundation funds you must: 🤝 Be an organisation where at least 50% of the organisation’s focus is on work with and for 14-25 year olds. 📈 Have an annual turnover between £30,000 and £3.5 million. 🎓 Not be solely focused on pathways to employment, further or higher educations. 📆 Applications are ongoing throughout the year. To find out more information and how to apply click here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ed-4wZza #FundingOpportunity #CommunitySupport #SocialImpact

🌟 It was fantastic to see so many of the UnLtd community at our Winter Social event last week. The atmosphere is always magic when like-minded people share their experiences and insights with each other. 🌟 A huge thank you to Impact Hub for hosting our event and to Hey! Food is Ready for the diverse cuisines from four different nations. Thank you to our social entrepreneur speakers who brought us into the world of their businesses and allowed everyone to connect in a meaningful way. ⭐ Jerry During, UnLtd trustee and co-founder, Money A&E ⭐ Reena Anand, founder of Being Inclusive ⭐ Kieran Joseph, founder of Guardian Ballers UK ⭐ Charlie Blair, founder of The Blair Academy It was also a great way to round off our #FundingFuturesProgramme launch by sharing a video hosted by Yellow Jigsaw CIC's Media Cubs featuring; 🚀 Yuru Guo, founder of Hey! Food Is Ready 🚀 Jade Barnett, co-founder of Power2Prevail Community 🚀 Matthew Punter, co-founder of EDEN 🚀 Alaa Alsewid, founder of Social By Design We look forward to connecting again with our UnLtd community in 2025! ©Nina Emett/FotoDocument #London #Networking #Community #SocialChange

🔎 When an organisation receives social investment, they will usually need to pay a return for using the money an investor lends them. This can be referred to as ‘Cost of Capital’. ⚖️ Any social investor making loans expects to lend, and then be repaid. The aim of this is to cover the cost of lending and any default payments which means the money can then be recycled and lent again. 💸 Learn more about what it is and how it works via this handy Good Finance UK Hub 👉 https://lnkd.in/dpE2wrh

🎉 Congratulations to Beth Kume-Holland and Patchwork Hub 🎉 It's been a remarkable week for Beth Kume-Holland and her social enterprise, Patchwork Hub, as both were celebrated in the prestigious Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 for 2024, with Patchwork Hub also winning the award for Best Small Employer. 🏆 Growth Impact Fund investee, Beth Kume-Holland is a disability inclusion expert and the founder of Patchwork Hub, a disabled-led social enterprise providing an inclusive jobs board, alongside training and consultancy services for employers. 🏅 Beth has also won Future Awards’ Changemaker of the Year Award, for the work she’s done through Patchwork Hub. To find out more about the Growth Impact Fund click here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e_GnuVPU #GrowthImpactFund #SocialEnterprise #SocialChange

Join us for our final Connect & Share online sessions of 2024 🔎 Are you a social entrepreneur focused on #HealthyAgeing or #AccessToEmployment or #FinancialInclusion 🔎 Whether you're just starting out or scaling up, the door is open to all who are passionate about creating a healthier, more equitable future for the communities they are serving. 🔑 Connect & Share: Employment & Financial Inclusion 📆 Wednesday 27th November 🕐 12-1pm 🔑 Connect & Share: Healthy Ageing 📆 Thursday 28th November 🕐 12-1pm A glimpse of what's on the agenda: ⭐ Welcome and UnLtd updates on sector research, events and opportunities. ⭐ Opportunity to connect with like-mind social entrepreneurs across the UK. ⭐ Participate in our Action Learning Set To be a part of one of these sessions, click on the link to register 👉https://lnkd.in/edd9j3BV #SocialEnts #Innovation #PeerSupport #SocialEnterprise

💸 Funding Opportunity 💸 Are you a voluntary or community organisation in Wales? The National Lottery Awards for All Wales grant could help you deliver impactful projects in your community. 🚀 So, what does this grant offer❓ 🌟 Funding between £300 and £20,000 for projects lasting up to two years. 🌟 Support for up to two years. 🌟 A decision made about your funding in around 12 weeks. Key eligibility criteria: ✔️ Be based in Wales. ✔️ Must be a voluntary organisation, charity, CIC, school (benefiting the wider community) or statutory body. ✔️ Have at least two unrelated board or committee members. 📆 Applications are ongoing throughout the year. To find out more information and how to apply click here 👉 National Lottery Community Fund – https://lnkd.in/g3YjMHiB #FundingOpportunity #CommunitySupport #SocialImpact #Wales

What better way to celebrate the end of an inspiring Global Entrepreneurship Week and Social Enterprise Day - than with a string of media HITS. Thanks to the fantastic stories of our #FundingFuturesProgramme award winners, we have been making headlines up and down the country - broadcast and online - from BBC London, Financial News to Prolific North and Salford Now - with more to come - so watch this space. Big thank you to Alaa Alsewid, Jade Barnett, Matthew Punter and Yuru Guo for all their hard work and here’s to their success in the future. The Funding Futures Programme is a joint fund from UnLtd, Co-op Foundation and Phoenix Group. It is delivered by UnLtd and has been set up to support social entrepreneurs aged 16-30 who are working in the areas of financial inclusion and literacy. See in the comments for links to a few of those articles… #GEW2024 #SocialEnterpriseDay

🌠 Watch four of our #FundingFuturesProgramme award winners as they are interviewed by two Media Cub reporters - in celebration of #SocialEnterpriseDay. 🌠 🎤 Media Cubs is a pop-up TV studio and newsroom that empowers children from all backgrounds to become confident creators, debaters, and navigators of the news. 🎥 In this special video, young reporters Everleigh and Lila grill Jade, Matthew, Alaa and Yuru on their journeys to social entrepreneurship, why young people should be the ones to lead change, superpowers and much more! 🤝 The Funding Futures Programme - a joint fund from UnLtd, Co-op Foundation and Phoenix Group and delivered by UnLtd - has been set up to support young social entrepreneurs working in the areas of financial inclusion and literacy. To see the full video and more, click here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ecBA8knK #GEW2024 #FundingFuturesProgramme #SocialEnterprise #FinancialInclusion #SocialImpact

🌟 Introducing Yuru Guo, a Funding Futures Programme award winner and founder of Hey! Food is Ready. 🌟 27-year-old Yuru got the idea for setting up her social enterprise when she was a student wanting to connect and make friends through food. Fast forward only a few years and Hey! Food is Ready! has already catered the pre-event as part of Taylor Swift’s latest world tour at Wembley Stadium and even for the British Royal Family. 🍽️ Hey! Food is Ready! connects certified cooks from minority ethnic groups with companies seeking catering for events. The platform helps refugee, immigrant and stay-at-home cooks, to share their culture and stories while generating income. So far, the organisation’s chef community represents over 60 countries, and 80% of the chefs represented are female, compared to the industry standard of professional chefs, which is only 19%. Yuru, who has previously lived in New York, New Delhi and European cities and has family roots in Korea and China, now lives in Willesden Green, North London. 🔊 She said: “I think for people coming to a new country they can feel very disconnected from the community and their culture, and one of the main things that we can connect on is food. Food is the universal language. “I was living in Durham, and was sharing accommodation with people from all around the world, and I started hosting a Friday night potluck dinner together. And each of our friends would bring a dish that was part of their culture, a family recipe, and we would share the food and stories. “And I thought, why don't I create this, a platform where people, like my friends, can use it to share their native food cultures and family recipes with the wider community. “Also, I thought why can’t I help people gain a meaningful income through the platform. So like the idea of Uber or Airbnb, I was helping people to make a side hustle in the food space. “Now it has grown into a catering marketplace platform connecting independent chefs from different cultural backgrounds with companies looking for a diverse selection of event catering options." Yuru has already worked with 125 independent chefs from diverse backgrounds and has now been successful in securing £18,000 from our Funding Futures Programme - to further grow the platform, with 350 chefs already on the waiting list to work with the social enterprise. 🤝 The Funding Futures Programme - a joint fund from Unltd, Co-op Foundation and Phoenix Group and delivered by Unltd - has been set up to support young social entrepreneurs working in the areas of financial inclusion and literacy. 🔗 To find out more about the Funding Futures Programme visit 👉 https://lnkd.in/dgWAWS_d #SocialEnterpriseDay #FundingFuturesProgramme #GEW2024 #SocialEntrepreneur #SocialChange

🎉 Celebrate #SocialEnterpriseDay with us tomorrow 🎉 We’re excited to announce that tomorrow we'll be releasing a Media Cubs’ press conference video featuring four of our #FundingFuturesProgramme award winners. 📺 🎤 Media Cubs is a pop-up TV studio and newsroom that empowers children from all backgrounds to become confident creators, debaters, and navigators of the news. 🎥 In this special video, young reporters Everleigh and Lila grill Jade, Matthew, Alaa and Yuru on their journeys to social entrepreneurship, on why young people should be the ones to lead change and much more! 🤝 The Funding Futures Programme - a joint fund from UnLtd, Co-op Foundation and Phoenix Group and delivered by UnLtd - has been set up to support young social entrepreneurs working in the areas of financial inclusion and literacy. Don’t miss the full video release tomorrow and check out our teaser trailer below. 👇 🔗 To find out more about the Funding Futures Programme visit 👉 https://lnkd.in/dgWAWS_d #GEW2024 #FundingFuturesProgramme #SocialEnterprise #FinancialInclusion #SocialImpact