We’ve been invited from our tutor to take part to the Social Entrepreneurship Awards workshop taking place at Uni. It was organised by ECCA (see the logo aside). We discovered There was funding of almost £1million nationwide for the awards, run by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and UnLtd (a charity supporting social enterprise), for staff and students at universities who wanted to develop entrepreneurial solutions to social problems, or who need project funding to take an existing social enterprise to the next level. We were really interested!
The workshop was going to provide the opportunity:
• to gain a more detailed understanding of the Awards scheme
• to present and discuss specific project ideas, with the aim of working these up into successful applications;
• to find out more about UnLtd, and the support they offer to social entrepreneurs.
We looked better into UnLtd (see http://www.unltd.org.uk/ for more informations) to see what exactly we could get from them and how it worked. We realised we could have applied for the Level 1 Awards.
Those awards are aimed at individuals or informal groups of people who have an idea which will change society for the better, and want help getting it off the ground. The money is to help with the running costs of the project. We knew that at Level 1 we could have applied for an award of between £500 and £5,000, (with an average award size of £2,000). All we needed was:
- Have an idea which will benefit their community
- Have thought about how they will run their project
- Have some evidence that there is a need for their project
- Will learn a new skill from carrying out their project
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