Seven social entrepreneurs secure £1.1 million of growth capital
Big Venture Challenge stimulates social Investment marketplace and supports ambitious social entrepreneurs to scale their ventures The Big Venture Challenge, a programme delivered by UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, with support from the Big Lottery Fund, has in its first six months successfully leveraged early-stage co-investments for seven social ventures with high growth potential. … Read more
People Powered Change – Young Foundation: Building Local Activism
All this week we’ve be publishing guest blogs from projects we funded 12 months ago under the banner People Powered Change. To conclude the series, today we hear from the Young Foundation’s Mandeep Hothi about their Building Local Activism programme. The Young Foundation is now one year into our Building Local Activism programme, which has … Read more
People Powered Change – Your Square Mile
This week we’ve been publishing guest blogs from projects we funded 12 months ago under the banner People Powered Change. Today we hear from Your Square Mile’s Paul Twivy. Launched in October last year, Your Square Mile (YSM) is a citizens’ mutual open to anyone in the UK over the age of 16. It gives … Read more
People Powered Change – UnLtd: Big Venture Challenge
This week we’ve been publishing guest blogs from projects we funded 12 months ago under the banner People Powered Change. Today we hear from UnLtd’s Dan Lehner about their Big Venture Challenge. A year ago, it was announced that UnLtd would deliver a three-year investment called Big Venture Challenge under BIG’s People Powered Change initiative. Big Venture … Read more
People Powered Change – Media Trust
Over the next few days we’ll be publishing guest blogs from projects we funded 12 months ago under the banner People Powered Change. Today we hear from Gavin Sheppard at the Media Trust about its newsnet project. A year ago we started working with the Big Lottery Fund on the People Powered Change initiative with a view … Read more
