An open event for anyone wanting to find out more about the free places on offer at the Cornwall School for Social Entrepreneurs 2010. Interest especially welcome from people who are facing redundancy or are already unemployed. If you have a great idea for a community business we want to hear from you!

1. Want to know more? Cornwall
School for Social Entrepreneurs
You are
Student Recruitment 2010
Information Sessions
invited
To book your place
Call Colette to our
Programme Coordinator
01726 223586
or Email
colette.defoe@cornwalldevelopmentcompany.co.uk
2010
Information
Session
Cornwall School for Social Entrepreneurs
in
c/o Cornwall Development Company
Pydar House, Pydar Street,
TRURO, TR1 1EA
PENZANCE
Web: www.sse.org.uk
St John’s Hall
Sally Heard Committee Room 3
Development Manager Alverton Road
Email: on Friday
sally.heard@cornwalldevelopmentcompany.co.uk 19th March at
10.30am
Are you unemployed or facing redundancy
Tell others . . . and have a great idea for a community
business? Calling all social entrepreneurs ...

2. It’s school, but not as we know it What the SSE Programme offers!
Introducing
The Cornwall School for Social Entrepreneurs opened its doors in March The SSE Programme Who pays for your place on
2009 for the 9 month programme to a group of 15 people from across The Cornwall SSE programme the SSE programme?
Cornwall. Our students have now graduated and have gone on to set up 2010 will start in April and run Cornwall SSE is a partner in
Find out more about SSE
a wide range of new businesses and social projects. through school term-time. the Cornwall Works for Social
Students will take part in the Enterprise Convergence ESF
The School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) exists to provide training and following: programme, co-financed
opportunities to enable people to use their creative and entrepreneurial through Jobcentre Plus (DWP)
abilities more fully for social benefit. SSE supports individuals to set up • Study days and led by Cornwall
new charities, social enterprises and social businesses across the UK. • Experts Sessions Council. Cornwall SSE is
• Witness Sessions managed through Cornwall
The SSE runs practical learning programmes aimed at helping develop • Tutorials Development Company and
the individual entrepreneur and their organisation simultaneously: our • Action Learning Sets was the seventh School to be
approach, and belief, is that social change is people-powered, and that • Project Visits established with support from
the most valuable assets and resources we have are human ones. You • Residential the SSE team based in
get involved one day a week by attending sessions at our community Bethnal Green,
base in Penzance or going on visits to social enterprises and other Requirements London. Cornwall SSE was
projects, plus a residential to look forward to later in the year. If you are Recruitment for the programme enabled by a strong
in receipt of benefits or not working we can assist you with support from is competitive and places are partnership of people /
the Enabling Fund. not guaranteed. However, we organisations in Cornwall with
are not looking for formal a passion to make it happen
qualifications to gain entry to and Convergence ESF
Graeme De Lyons from Penzance developed his ideas programme. Cornwall SSE is investment.’
and created The Possibility Bus, a carbon-neutral vehicle looking for people who have
that travels to individuals and groups in their local the drive, commitment, What is a Social
communities. This travelling holistic centre delivers a willingness to push the Entrepreneur?
variety of opportunities for increased awareness and self- boundaries and work hard. An entrepreneur is someone
empowerment encompassing health, nutrition, creativity who initiates new business
and education.
Is SSE right for you? opportunities. However a
All our students are selected social entrepreneur is
because of their ideas, interests motivated more by social
Jane Yeomans and projects they feel purpose using business
Founder of ZOOP as an innovative social enterprise passionate about. It’s about acumen for social gain. Social
working in partnership with the Cornish Precious Lives
making a difference in the entrepreneurs are found from
charity to promote sustainable living to families with
children under 5 years of age. ZOOP provide training world, locally or globally. We all walks of life in every
sessions and runs a funky retail shop selling high quality help you combine business culture and engaged in the
donated toys, clothes and equipment for the under fives. skills with social thinking. We voluntary, public and private
www.zoop.org.uk help you become employed or sectors.
self-employed.