_Hello We are designing human-centred programmes that see the growth of social entrepreneurship in hard to reach places. And are looking for the right people to join us! We take career changers and career breakers, post-grads and sabbaticalists, corporate learners and freelancers to amazing places, to work alongside grassroots entrepreneurs. In turn we help you get equipped to either launch your own game changing start up, bring more meaning into your work or move into the sector. Our mission for this programme is to work with and support the development and growth of our client, Unltd Hyderabad’s, investees. UnLtd work with early stage social entrepreneurs over 12 months to help them validate their ideas and get ready for investment and scaling up. We come on board as their official training partner to implement the tools and facilitate some of the learning around the different stages of this process. Following a successful first programme in Hyderabad we are recruiting the next cohort of Trainee Social Enterprise Consultants for a unique programme that sees you learn all about social entrepreneurship in innovative ways.
_WhoWeAre We are a small group of young professionals who have been making our move away from the corporate sector in the last few years. Since then we’ve been notching up hours in volunteer management, international development, youth media, CSR & Social Enterprise. We have over 30 years of professional experience, managing over 200 volunteers along the way.
The idea is that the skilled professionals (that’s you!) return to your communities, motivated and inspired to take the next step in your social impact career journey.
_WhoWeWorkWith
1. International volunteers who want to gain hands on social entrepreneurship experience
We ran our pilot in Kenya with VSO Jitloee, the Kenyan arm of the UK government backed Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) to deliver social entrepreneurship training to their unemployed young volunteers. In India, we’re the official training partners of UnLtd India, working directly with their affiliate UnLtd Hyderabad.
2. Entrepreneurs in developing countries who lack access to training in social entrepreneurship
UnLtd India are a sister organisation to the Social Enterprise supporters UnLtd in the UK.
We connect these two groups together to develop sustainable social impact ventures and launch new impactful start-ups.
We are constantly talking to amazing partners all around the world, people who are dedicated to and passionate about growing social entrepreneurship. In Brazil we’re exploring a couple of incredible potential partnerships that would deliver us talented engaged young people and access to a wider network of people influential in this space, and in Sri Lanka our relationship with the British Council is looking likely to mean we’ll be involved in the development of a new, locally mapped social entrepreneurship community set to change the way a country tackles post-conflict development.
_SocialStarters works with two groups of people:
Our collaborative accelerator programme sees international volunteers become _ SocialStarters, taking all the current thinking around social innovation and design thinking to hard to reach places, developing along the way sustainable social impact ventures.
_WhatWeWillDo _COLLABORATE We bring together people from different worlds to create change. We train you up to become a Social Enterprise Consultant, and you will work with a group of micro start-ups, young people, or existing grassroots social entrepreneurs to help them identify problems, design solutions, test ideas, build brands and get them ready for launch. _LEARN During Bootcamp you will learn about specific tools and techniques that enable you to support your clients appropriately. You’ll be introduced to social entrepreneurship, start-up methods, business modelling, finances and what it means to work with people at the base of the pyramid. Plus you’ll take part in creative and design workshops, and immerse yourself into the community. _DESIGN Most volunteer programmes end once you return home and the impact is short term. _SocialStarters gives you the tools and inspiration to design change in your own lives as well as others. Whether you want to develop your own start-up ideas, turn your passion into a business or move into a more meaningful career, we create space for you to explore your values and what it is that makes you tick so that you can return home feeling ready to make your next move.
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You are truly inspiring and your perspective that you bring is so fundamental to how we should start a business that has a social element to it. I am improving, humanizing, developing, learning and getting knowledge day by day under your training.
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Immaculate Jebet, 26, Kenya Aspiring Social Entrpeneur
"Bootcamp was a fun, dynamic approach to concepts, with varied pratical tasks that sustain the interest and motivation." Mary Bowden, UX Designer, Microsoft
_hyderabad, india
In May 2015 we are going to be running our second programme in Hyderabad, India. You would come and become an invaluable part of the _SocialStarters team as a Trainee Social Enterprise Consultant. First up, we will equip you with essential 7 day training bootcamp and a toolkit that teaches you about global and Indian social entrepreneurship, basic business skills, start up methods, and how to facilitate workshops and delve into problem solving - then you’ll design a plan for how to develop the learning of your clients. You will then spend the remaining weeks identifying problems, designing solutions, testing ideas, building brands and making a long lasting impact for your clients. Based on a needs assessment you will then design a programme for your clients, supporting them to bring their ideas to life over the following 5 weeks. In your spare time, you’ll be able to develop you own ideas and explore their validity for your return. We’ll be supporting you through career coaching and ideation workshops to enable you to feel ready to tackle your ‘what next’.
_Learn You will gain hands on experience of working with a start-up social enterprise (that’s us!) contributing to our own start-up journey. Helping us be able to show more people globally how to climb their own way out of poverty.
BOOTCAMP
By connecting and collaborating with talented people, we take career changers and career breakers, post-grads and sabbaticalists, corporate learners and freelancers to amazing places. To work alongside grassroots entrepreneurs, to develop opportunities for young people.
We help you get equipped to either launch your own game changing start up, bring more meaning into your work or move into the sector. Our collaborative accelerator programme sees international volunteers become _SocialStarters, taking all the current thinking around social innovation and design thinking to hard to reach places, developing along the way sustainable social impact ventures. The idea is that the skilled professionals (that’s you!) We are currently working with Unltd Hyderabad, a prestigious social entrepreneurship incubator. Unltd is a one year programme, where they are developing social impact start-ups around environment, education, health and livelihoods.
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I’ve attended dozens of training courses and workshops in my time, and I have to say that the format, style and quality of the training has been exceptional. I’ve learnt more than I ever could have imagined on topics such as social enterprise, lean start-ups and the local market. It’s been a fully rounded and immersive experience.”
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Paul Goff, Former Supply Consultant, Deloitte, UK.
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_Design
The tools you learn will be transferable to your own professional development and you’ll be able to utilise the skills and knowledge of the international group.
“Bootcamp was an enriching experience; it is not often you get the chance to work with such a diverse and impressive group of people, at the same time building and developing your own business and personal skills. Juan Galan, Graduate from McGill University, Canada
Your clients will be a small group of grassroots Indian social entrepreneurs who are making a huge different in their communities tackling real world problems for consumers at the base of the pyramid.
_Collaborate
Hyderabad is hotbed of social entrepreneurial talent so this is a really exciting opportunity to get involved at a grassroots level and gain hands on experience in international development, making a real difference to the entrepreneurs who are changing people’s lives for the better. Your clients will be a small group of grassroots Indian social entrepreneurs who are making a huge different in their communities tackling real world problems for consumers at the base of the pyramid. You will also be supported to work on your own projects or start-up ideas and be able to utilise the skills and knowledge of the international group and will have the time and space to reflect on your ‘what next.’ What are your passions and values and how will this shape the path you lead yourself on? We will help you try and answer some of these questions on our Immersion Programme. Plus the tools you learn will be transferable to your own professional development and you’ll be able to utilise the skills and knowledge of the international group.
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We have the most incredible range of talent within the room, covering almost every topic you can imagine, from developers to entrepreneurs. It’s been incredible getting to know each persons background and I can tell that I will be lucky enough to gain something insightful from each one of them.
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Emma Wilson, Former Brand Controller, L’Oreal, UK.
_ProgrammeFee: £1580 _Includes: Accommodation (2nd May- 13th June 2015 inclusive - 42 nights) *1 week-long training bootcamp *Teaching materials for your clients *Any programme related printing, photocopying, workbooks *Travel within the community to visit clients *Pre-arranged return airport transfer from nearest local airport *WIFI
#JoinUs We are currently running our first programme in the home of the Biriyani, Hyderabad. A cultural hotbed of entrepreneurial talent, outstanding food and a lively arts scene, we’re seeing inspirational local talent matched up with our international volunteers to develop and launch incubated social start-ups. We are recruiting our new cohort of volunteer ‘Trainee Social Enterprise Consultants’ who we will train to support the learning of our client’s incubated investees. This is in part a career coaching experience for you, as we will create the space for you to figure out your own career goals but at the same time you will gain hands on experience in the world of social enterprise overseas.
*Local sim card (bring your own phone) *Weekly phone credit budget *Weekly ‘headspace’ half day excursion/trip
_Doesn’t Include: - International flights - Tourist visa - Vaccinations - Insurance
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
_HowWeStarted We started this in Kenya as an experiment to test whether social entrepreneurship training in hard to reach places can empower young people to climb their own way out of poverty. Following a successful pilot, we are confidant about our methodology and are growing globally. And we have ambitious aims. We do expect, with your help, that Indian entrepreneurs will be able to strengthen their solutions to serious social issues. And we look forward to seeing your ideas for creating change in your community. Could this be the start of a sustainable volunteer programme that truly creates change? You will be instrumental in helping us find out.
_Founders
_ANDREA GAMSON _CO-FOUNDER A social enterprise, communications and youth engagement specialist who studied one of the first digital media degrees in the UK. Andrea thrives when impacting positive change. She spent a while post-university selling advertising & marketing campaigns to global brands, charities & media; then found herself launching and developing projects for some of the brightest youth organisations and social enterprises in the UK, including taking Brixton’s foremost youth-run ‘Live Magazine’ national for Livity (2013 Queens Award for Enterprise, the Observer & Nesta’s New Radicals 2012, E&Y Entrepreneurs of the Year). Has a passion for community development, particularly around impact of digital; and is dedicated to global & UK youth issues. Over the years clients and employers have included News International, Bauer Media, Livity, O2, Barclays, Converse, Nike, Adidas, PwC, Australia Tourism, British Film Institute, C4, Cabinet Office, and TFL.
_ANNA MORAN _CO-FOUNDER With eight years’ experience in the development sector, and experience of working on seven different youth volunteer programmes overseas for organisations such as VSO (the ICS Programme), Balloon Kenya and Project Peru. Anna previously set up and run a two-year volunteer programme in Peru, for which she was nominated for Woman of The Future Voluntary Award, and is passionate about social entrepreneurship as an alternative approach to addressing social issues. She believes that overseas volunteer programmes are a valuable opportunity to develop young people into future leaders and social entrepreneurs.