Growth Accelerator for Social Entrepreneurs
Product Description:
Growth Accelerator Programme for Social Entrepreneurs, funded by UK Government via Leicester City Council. Its objectives are to keep you in business, protect and create jobs, and to help you grow.
The programme includes:
Onboarding and auditing your organisation's growth potential.
Five themed online masterclasses.
24-hour access to online course materials.
Connecting you to a small group of social entrepreneur peers to create a super team 'Growth Circle'.
Five 'one to one' business coaching sessions.
Monitoring.
There is no cost to you to participate. The full £5,700 programme cost of the Growth Accelerator is paid for by Leicester City Council funded by the UK Government.
Area of Expertise:
Protect and create jobs, and to help you grow.
Eligibility:
The Growth Accelerator is available to social enterprises based within the Leicester City Boundary.
Their funding agreement uses the term 'social enterprise' to include the following types of business:
Where the social or societal objective of the common good is the reason for the commercial activity, often in the form of a high level of social innovation
Whose profits are mainly reinvested to achieve this social objective
Where the method of organisation or the ownership system reflects the enterprise's mission, using democratic or participatory principles or focusing on social justice
There is no single legal form for social enterprises. Many operate in the form of social cooperatives, some are registered as private companies limited by guarantee, some are mutual, and a lot of them are non-profit-distributing organisations like provident societies, associations, voluntary organisations, charities, or foundations.