school for social entrepreneurs overview
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Overview of SSE and the way it works as of November 2008TRANSCRIPT
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
www.sse.org.ukhttp://del.icio.us/SSE
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