Welcome to Opportunity Knocks From Klearchos Kaputsis via flickr.com Hull, 10th February 2009

What we’ll do today Our aim - to help you to identify opportunities for achieving your social mission Practical exercises, to do today and back at work: Reality Checklist Mission Matrix (focus on now) Pyramid of Opportunity (focus on the future)

Our aim - to help you to identify opportunities for achieving your social mission

Practical exercises, to do today and back at work:

Reality Checklist

Mission Matrix (focus on now)

Pyramid of Opportunity (focus on the future)

Charity Bank in the North Investment Readiness Programme First Steps Workshops Next Steps Workshops Tailored one-to-one support package www.charitybank.org

Investment Readiness Programme

First Steps Workshops

Next Steps Workshops

Tailored one-to-one support package

www.charitybank.org

Next Steps Team Chris Low, University of Huddersfield Senior Lecturer in Business Strategy Designed and delivers MSc in Social Entrepreneurship Andy Peers, Love Enterprise Ltd Head of Sales, Big Issue in the North Executive Director, Big Life Company Founder and MD of Love Enterprise Rob Greenland, Social Business Consulting Worked for fairtrade social enterprise Ran Start up Scheme at WYSE School Set up SBC in 2005

Chris Low, University of Huddersfield

Senior Lecturer in Business Strategy

Designed and delivers MSc in Social Entrepreneurship

Andy Peers, Love Enterprise Ltd

Head of Sales, Big Issue in the North

Executive Director, Big Life Company

Founder and MD of Love Enterprise

Rob Greenland, Social Business Consulting

Worked for fairtrade social enterprise

Ran Start up Scheme at WYSE School

Set up SBC in 2005

Who do you love? Tell us a bit more about you and your organisation Then tell us about a business that you’re in a loving relationship with From Eek the Cat, via Flickr.com

Tell us a bit more about you and your organisation

Then tell us about a business that you’re in a loving relationship with

What do I do? Training - market research, marketing, social business planning Consultancy - social enterprise One to one support Writing and blogging Photo from Ant Smallwood via flickr.com

Training - market research, marketing, social business planning

Consultancy - social enterprise

One to one support

Writing and blogging

What have I done? University of Leeds - Spanish & French Senda Juvenil Trade for Change Social Enterprise Leeds WYSE School Social Business Consulting A journey from activist to entrepreneur

University of Leeds - Spanish & French

Senda Juvenil

Trade for Change

Social Enterprise Leeds

WYSE School

Social Business Consulting

A journey from activist to entrepreneur

Why money matters

What’s happening around you? Your organisation Your sector The people you serve Society at large Photo from BinaryApe, via Flickr.com

Your organisation

Your sector

The people you serve

Society at large

Your organisation - a reality checklist How ready are you for new ventures? What have you got going for you? What barriers may exist? Discuss this in pairs, and then feed back

How ready are you for new ventures?

What have you got going for you?

What barriers may exist?

Discuss this in pairs, and then feed back

Your attitude to profit Are you comfortable with making a profit? What issues might more income generation bring up? What good could it do? From Jessica Shannon via Flickr.com

Are you comfortable with making a profit?

What issues might more income generation bring up?

What good could it do?

Social Business Matrix

What does it mean to be business-like? We must reject the idea - well intentioned, but dead wrong - that the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become “more like a business”. Most businesses - like most of anything else in life - fall somewhere between mediocre and good. Few are great. The critical distinction is not between business and social, but between great and good. (Jim Collins, Good to Great and the Social Sectors)

We must reject the idea - well intentioned, but dead wrong - that the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become “more like a business”. Most businesses - like most of anything else in life - fall somewhere between mediocre and good. Few are great. The critical distinction is not between business and social, but between great and good. (Jim Collins, Good to Great and the Social Sectors)

Pyramid of Opportunity

Charity Bank in the North Investment Readiness Programme First Steps Workshops Next Steps Workshops Tailored one-to-one support package www.charitybank.org

Investment Readiness Programme

First Steps Workshops

Next Steps Workshops

Tailored one-to-one support package

www.charitybank.org

Your Next Steps What will be your next steps to sustainability? Any priorities? How can you make sure you’re not doing it alone? From Martin Wichary via Flickr.com

What will be your next steps to sustainability?

Any priorities?

How can you make sure you’re not doing it alone?