From Bangladesh To Brixton: Introduction to London Creative Labs

FROM BANGLADESH TO
BRIXTON
Wednesday, 16 April 14

OVERVIEW
The Big Idea
Why Us?
The Current Problem
Our Solution
Traction and Validation
What's The Future
The Ask

Think of Unltd - applied Grameen Style
Decent Work for Everyone
Create solutions together
THE BIG IDEA - WHY
Solutions must add up

Taxpayers to the government
Business rate payers to local government
We Sell:
Paying tenants to social landlords
We create work and increase employability
THE BIG IDEA - THE SELL

Architecture as living processes that generate form
We do social innovations as living processes
Christopher Alexander refers to Unfolding process
No separation between design and implementation
WHAT LIES UNDERNEATH
3. Unfolding
2. Bird's Eye and Worm's Eye View
1. Living Systems

WHY US?
Went to Bangladesh to
research why Grameen
had managed to scale
without mission drift
Soﬁa Bustamante-FRSA
Inspirational Visionary —
London Leader
Designer of the core product.
Social process geek.
Ability to motivate and inspire
teams
Mamading Ceesay
Futurist — Thought Leader
Identifies the context, forges
relationships
Social Tech Geek
Helped initiate the Brixton
Pound & the formation of
Space Makers (Brixton Village
Market)

WHY US?
CoreTeam
Trustees

Worklessness — is still not shifting
The major design solutions don't address the root causes.
Fractured Communities reduce well being
Need to address the demand for labour as well as the supply
(through startup creation)
Need to unlock the hard to reach to be economically active, solution
creators and part of the startups
Employability
Fractured, Isolated
Communities
Low Levels of
Well Being
THE PROBLEM

Person-Person
OUR SOLUTION — MULTI-LEVEL
Community Level -Bigger Picture Mapping
Hosting dialogues & community building —
Facilitatory Leadership
Intra personal
Group Level — Social startup lab ventures

Social
Startup
Labs
Skills
Camps
Social
Startup
Incubator
Stimulating
Supply Stimulating Demand
Getting people
market-ready
Creating
the market
Going to
market
OUR SOLUTION — THREE PRONGED

Social Startup Labs - Where Startups Are Born

Social Startup Labs - where Startups are born
OUR SOLUTION — CREATING THE MARKET

Social Startup Labs - where Startups are born
OUR SOLUTION — CREATING THE MARKET
What Happened?

Skills Camps - Where Career Coaches Are Discovered

Skills Camps — Where Career Coaches are discovered
Learn by doing
Introduce
Reﬂective
Enquiry
1-1 coaching Co-delivery
No- box-
ticking
-stake
Certiﬁcate of
Achievement
Buddy System
Physical Hub
Zero gap
between
problem &
Wider Economic
Context
Relationship to
Power
Structures
Stimulate an
ongoing
Community of
Stand out as
truly caring
and colourful
OUR SOLUTION — GETTING PEOPLE MARKET-READY

Claudius
I learnt how to be conﬁdent and assertive with the
skill and abilities I never knew I already had. It
taught me how to pass on information and
supporting skill to those who may have low self-
esteem or those who are unable to recognise their
own potential.
They made me feel that I was part of a family,
rather than that I was just in a class of people. The
delivery of the class was excellent and I would
recommend this to anyone.
Thank you for all your support and guidance... you
will always be my family.”

Yvonne
The coaches were able to help
me see in myself some things
that I was unable or didn't
really think mattered in getting
a job.
I now ﬁnd that I can reach out
and look at jobs I did not feel I
had the capacity to do.
Thanks, Sylvana and the Skills
Camps group”.

Roseanne
Its always been my desire to do
something that I love — now
i'm dead set on it!
I thought I was conﬁdent I now
know I was not and what
conﬁdence really is.

The Big Test
?
TRACTION AND VALIDATION

Skills
Camps
Social
Startup
Labs
Social
Startup
Incubator
It Worked!

The course is cleverly structured in a way allowing
the participants to truly learn and gain real and
practical experience of both life and career
coaching.
The course also expertly extracts hidden talents,
potential and instils a new motivation in
theparticipants making them more ready for the
job market and empowered to create a new,
uniqueand perfectly suited path in both their
professional and personal lives.
Jerry

71%
93%
95%
72%
63%
42%
53%
75%
Skills Camps Social Startup Labs
Change in work or
learning status
External
Achievement of
Behaviour Change
Internal shift — Social/
Emotional State
Learning
Achievement
Beneﬁt
60 Career Coaches
67 Career Coaches 19 Ventures/ 2 Labs
20 Ventures/ 4 Labs
Network
Interpersonal
Relationship
AIM
RESULT
Conversion/
Retention
90%/
80%
Wider LCL Community 500
AIM
RESULT

What were we right about
What were we wrong about?
What surprised us
This demographic needs very deep work.
Breakthroughs are possible
This increases participation in the economy. This demographic can be
inventive and resourceful
The community was more fractured than we thought. Higher level of distrust
Knowledge about how things get done is less then we thought
How much resistance there was at ﬁrst both in the labs and the Skills Camps
That people stayed at the labs for a full day.
The very small interventions that can make all the diﬀerence

Bridging and Linking Social Capital
Zero Waste
Increased Economic Complexity
Stimulated Supply and demand
Community Learning — tools for change widely diﬀused
Communities own their own data
EMERGENT OUTCOMES
Critical mass of empowered citizens — will change everything

Awarded London Leader status
Ashoka UK - says to keep doing what we are doing - we are on course for a
fellowship,
next step is to hit thousands
if this goes from hundreds to thousands
JP Morgan - Hang Ho has mentioned that she would give positive reference
from what she has heard on the street about our work
Lamiya Morshed, Chief of Staﬀ at Yunus Centre, Grameen and personal secretery to
Muhammad Yunus: "if you keep focused on what you are doing in 5 years you could be
the next big thing"
Testimonials from Beneﬁciaries - please see the handouts.
Paul McGlone, Cabinet Member, Lambeth, "We need to roll out what you
are doing 1000 times
VALIDATION — PARTNER AGENCIES

Social
Startup
Labs
Skills
Camps
Social
Startup
Incubator
Getting people
market-ready
Creating
the market
Going to
market
OUR SOLUTION

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