Social Business Development aims to add value to innovative social businesses from across the UK by unleashing the power and opportunity that partnership can create. We invite ambitious social businesses to introduce their business, and social mission, and highlight challenges that they would like to explore.
Our Connecting with Purpose programme enables your social business to harness the collective perspectives of individuals from varying experiences to brainstorm potential solutions, identify new opportunities, and opens up the potential of large organisations and their networks.
Promote your business, its achievements, and communicate the value of ‘business for purpose’ to organisations that are genuine in their desire to evolve and have more impact.
Be the focus of structured brainstorming sessions and use the collective intelligence of business professionals from varied disciplines and backgrounds to find solutions to drive growth and impact.
Benefit from ongoing support from individuals keen to give their skills and knowledge to add value and capacity and fill in areas of need in your business.
Your social business will benefit from our peer mentoring programme as it creates relationships for mutual benefit and development between professionals within large and small organisations.
A sounding board or critical friend who is keen to understand your issues, help solve them, and develop their own skills and knowledge too.
A regular commitment of at least 6 months to build understanding, trust, and partnership based on a curated process of careful selection to create the right match.
Broader opportunities to knowledge and skills through additional volunteering, responding to additional needs that you will identify with your mentor helping create a greater partnership with your host organisations.
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