Opportunity Knocks

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)

Charity Bank in the North
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

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

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

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

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 - 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

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

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)

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

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

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Opportunity Knocks

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