Does your social venture help people build financial resilience? You might be providing access to the financially excluded, debt management, financial upskilling, financial tech for good and financial planning solutions. Or you might be working on other innovative ways of lifting people into financial security.
Sponsoring Agency: Royal London
Type of Fund: Program
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/01/2021
Size of the Fund: Less than USD $50,000
Does your social venture help people build financial resilience? You might be providing access to the financially excluded, debt management, financial upskilling, financial tech for good and financial planning solutions. Or you might be working on other innovative ways of lifting people into financial security.
Royal London and the School for Social Entrepreneurs are looking for innovative, ambitious leaders of social enterprise and social ventures that are helping to build financial resilience and are looking to grow their impact and income from trading.
The programme starts in September 2021. It will be mostly virtual, though there may be some face-to-face sessions, subject to government restrictions.
Benefits
Participants on this programme receive:
• Two years of support, including 1-2-1 expert consultancy, learning sessions and action learning with other social entrepreneurs all tackling financial resilience.
• A grant of £10,000-£30,000 in the first year, with opportunities to access further funding in years two and three.
• The chance to collaborate, and build a relationship with Royal London to work on building resilience for more people facing life shocks.
You’ll benefit from SSE’s practical learning style and Action Learning approach.
Is this right for me?
• You are looking to grow the impact of your social impact organisation/social enterprise/social venture.
• You are seeking to build people’s financial resilience through long term solutions (examples of the services you might be providing include: access to the financially excluded, debt management, financial up-skilling, financial tech for good, financial planning solutions. Or other innovative ways of lifting people into financial security).
• Your enterprise is either at an early stage (active for at least one year) and ready to grow income from trading, or more established looking to grow into a new area or develop a new idea.
• You and the majority of your beneficiaries are based in the UK and/or Ireland.
More information at: https://www.the-sse.org/courses/royal-london-changemakers-programme/#sm
Eligible Countries:
Ireland, United Kingdom
