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The Good For Business: Exploring Social Enterprise course equips participants with the tools, knowledge and practical skills needed to drive impact within their communities.
In a series of six interactive workshops delivered by UWS enterprise experts, leaders of social enterprises will have the opportunity to explore the current landscape, identify key stakeholders and discuss potential operating issues within the bigger picture of the enterprise network.
In today’s challenging times as a society we are much less likely to think that central government should and can solve the big social issues. We also have less confidence in traditional institutions to deal with these problems. There is also a growing desire and belief that as individuals we can make a difference as social entrepreneurs who care about others and society as a whole. Social enterprises are commercially run, profit making organisations that are driven by social aims. Their profits are reinvested into social, community or environmental objectives.
To create meaningful impact social enterprises must combine entrepreneurship, innovation and market approaches to create social value and change. Social enterprises employ earned income and market-based strategies to address social need. Most if not all surpluses are reinvested to meet the social mission, so they need to be financially viable and self-sustaining. However, whilst social enterprises experience similar growth patterns to mainstream business, showing that profitability and altruism are not mutually exclusive, they also experience a range of challenges which are concerned solely with their third sector status and their social enterprise business model.
Delivery
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Date and time |
Workshop Content |
Delivery |
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6th June, 1-4pm |
Workshop 1: The social enterprise landscape |
Online via Zoom |
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13th June, 1-4pm |
Workshop 2: Stakeholders and partnerships |
Online via Zoom |
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20th June, 1-4pm |
Workshop 3: Purpose and vision |
Online via Zoom |
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27th June, 1-4pm |
Workshop 4: Strategy and operationalisation |
Online via Zoom |
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4th July, 1-4pm |
Workshop 5: Creativity and innovation |
Online via Zoom |
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11th July, 1-4pm |
Workshop 6: Developing the product |
Online via Zoom |
Learning outcomes
With support from the teaching team, participants will explore the challenges they and their organisation face in order to come up with practical solutions to these challenges which are likely to be either strategic or operational in nature. Through the course participants will become familiar with a range of key business tools designed to help them develop their business and their skills such as: the business model canvas, business plans, strategic plans and SMART action plans.
Target audience
This course is well suited to anyone who is a decision maker for a social enterprise in the UK.
There are no pre-requisites for this course, but it is recommended that individuals are decision makers in a social enterprise which can demonstrate an interest in social, community or environmental objectives and creating social value and change.
Funding
This course may be available on a fully funded basis to some delegates through the Upskilling Fund. Further details, including regarding eligibility, are available under Funding Support.
Contact us
Any questions relating to course content should be directed to Alan Murray (alan.murray@uws.ac.uk). All general inquiries should be directed to cpd@uws.ac.uk