Funding Central is a free website for charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. The site provides access to thousands of funding and finance opportunities, plus a wealth of tools and resources supporting organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to their needs.
If you are completely or relatively new to fundraising, Funding Central provides a guided search enabling you to identify the most appropriate funding and finance opportunities that best suit you and the beneficiaries that you support.
Submit your social business idea by 16.01.11 and you could win seed funding from a £25,000 fund, expert mentors and an unforgettable experience.
The Emerge Social Venture Lab is a new, rigorous fellowship programme for UK student entrepreneurs with early-stage social venture ideas that demonstrate high-impact potential. Every year, they select ten teams to participate in an incubation programme that provides seed funding, mentorship and tailored support. By guiding these ventures from ideation to implementation, Emerge hope to develop tomorrow’s leaders who will drive positive social change.
Win up to £8,500 funding plus places at a residential bootcamp, mentoring and internships!
VEO, Louis Mech’s new social enterprise eyewear brand, has been invited to participate in a Q&A by The Guardian Newspaper, one of the UK’s most read newspapers reaching 1.2 million readers daily. The feature looks to highlight new social enterprise endeavors, tackling the big question of ‘raising capital for your SE company.’
Louis, a longstanding member of Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs, told us, “The Guardian has a superb social enterprise section and we are really proud to have been chosen!”
Tune in to hear Louis and other social entrepreneurs discuss social enterprise finance on The Guardian website.
‘We’ll feed him for a month, can you feed him for a year?’
We challenge you to turn the £5 that feeds a child for a month into as much
money as possible using your entrepreneurial and innovative skills around campus or in the local community.
You have one week from when the money is handed
over to make as much profit as possible. Make the most money
and be our prize winners! Can you really make a difference?
All profit gained will go to the Msizi Africa charity.
vcashpoint is giving away £2,500 to 16-25 year olds in England with ideas for London 2012 inspired projects in their communities. If you’ve got an idea for a London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games inspired volunteering project to improve your community, you could apply for up to £2,500 to make it happen.
To get your brains-whirring Olympic and Paralympic Games themes include: Sport, Health Culture, Education and Environment To apply for a vcashpoint grant, you must be aged 16-25, live in England, and be up for running the project yourself.
You’ll need to show how your project will help other people (not relatives), the environment or your community and how it has been inspired by London 2012.
This Summer the Student Microfinance & Development Initiative is sending top students to 158 Leading Social Entrepreneurs of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship around the world to intern.
The internships between June and October on flexible dates will be partly supported by the social entrepreneurs, but the chosen SMDI Fellows are to expect to cover travel expenses and accomodation on their own. Interested students are asked to keep this in mind before applying.
Applicants are to specify one or at most two social enterprises they are interested in working with and the dates of their availability in summer. The Schwab Foundation and SMDI are then going to choose winning applicants and set up the internships with the leading social entrepreneurs.
If you are a student interested in applying to become an SMDI Fellow and join a Schwab Social Entrepreneur over the Summer, please:
by sending in your CV, a cover letter targeted to the one or two social entrepreneurs you are applying to work with and the SMDI Fellow Application Form (if you are not already an SMDI Fellow):
Nepal is one of the 5 poorest countries in the world. The average annual income per family is about £116 but falls to just £22 for an “untouchable” family. Out of 100 untouchable women 97 are illiterate. Of its approximately 5.5 million “untouchable” population, 90% live below poverty line.
To support Comolongmo, you can buy their great products via their website or by visiting their stall at Spitalfields market.
Meet stars including Tim Smit (The Eden Project) and Sophi Tranchell (Divine Chocolate)
The Social Enterprise Ambassadors share a common goal – to run successful businesses that make a positive contribution to society. From food to fashion, IT to marketing, they cover a wide range of industries and are proving that social and environmental impact can be combined with financial success.
They want to inspire and help the next wave of social entrepreneurs, so they are offering YOU the chance to win a free one-on-one mentoring session with the Ambassador of your choice. If you’re one of the 28 lucky winners, you’ll spend two hours with them, finding out about the lessons they’ve learnt as successful social entrepreneurs, and how these could support you and your business. This is an amazing opportunity to learn from the best and receive expert advice and guidance, tailored to you and your goals.
Entry is simple: pick the Ambassador you feel could support you the most and explain why you would benefit from a two hour session with them. Get your entry in by 31st March 2010 and you could find yourself face-to-face with one of the country’s leading social entrepreneurs.
In rural Africa, poor transport costs lives. Drugs cannot be delivered, patients cannot reach health centres and medics cannot send samples to labs for analysis. Riders for Health is changing all this. But can they now set up a new medical transport network in rural Zambia in just six months? Can they meet Alvin Hall’s challenge to import the motorcycles, train the riders, negotiate with the ministry and complete all the legal and business hurdles so quickly?
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Funding Central is a free website for charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. The site provides access to thousands of funding and finance opportunities, plus a wealth of tools and resources supporting organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to their needs.
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