Events in the academic year 2011-2012

Lent

Event 1  – “Making your social enterprise work”

Thursday, 2^nd February, 7pm

Lecture Room (LR) 6, Department of Engineering, first floor

For this event we are delighted to welcome Jack Graham (The Young Foundation) and Cliff Prior (Unltd.co.uk) to discuss the practicalities of how you can be sure that your social enterprise will actually work. Our speakers will aim to help the audience understand common problems faced by social entrepreneurs and their solutions. Jack Graham is a Senior Associate at The Young Foundation and leads Year Here, a new venture that challenges bright, ambitious and socially-conscious school leavers to a year of tackling social issues in their own backyard. Cliff Prior is the CEO of UnLtd, a charity which supports social entrepreneurs: people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. They do this by providing a complete package of funding and support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality.

Michaelmas

Event 1 – “Meet the entrepreneur”

25^th October 7pm

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College

To kick off the year, the first event provided by the enterprise stream will introduce the concept of entrepreneurship and will give students the opportunity to meet two highly successful local entrepreneurs. Christopher Dobbing (Oxbridge Tours and Letter ELF) and Sobia Hamid (Datagiving) will be sharing with us their stories of how they got their social businesses off the ground and will offer advice to students who wish to start up their own social enterprises. Sobia is a current Cambridge student who is an Unltd. Award winner for her start up datagiving.com

Christopher Dobbing set up Oxbridge Tours in 2010 as a social enterprise, aiming to tackle the issue of rising fees. The company offers academic and cultural walking tours of Oxford and Cambridge to corporate groups, schools and tourists. They have worked with a huge range of organisations from PB to The Judge Business School and even His Eminence the Cardinal of New York.

Now a Cambridge graduate, Chris believes there is a lot of misunderstanding about social enterprise and what it means, and looks forward to opening up debate on the issue and raising the profile of the SE sector.

 

Event 2 – “Vision meets reality – Developing your own social enterprise idea”

Tuesday, 22nd November, 8pm (right after the main Enterprise Tuesday talk)

Board Room (2nd floor), Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (main Enterprise Tuesday venue)

In this interactive session led by former management consultant and social enterprise coach Ignacio Pérez Hallerbach, participants will have the opportunity to learn about existing social enterprise models, find like-minded people and develop their own social enterprise idea.
This event is a precursor to our event “Creating a social enterprise in Cambridge” with Neil Prem and Martin Clark from Future Business on Thursday, November 24th (see below). There, participants of the interactive session will be able to test their ideas with Neil and Martin.

30 places are available for this session. To register, please send an email to Ignacio at ignacio@beyondprofit.org.uk.

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/177638435661248/

Event 3 – “Creating a social enterprise in Cambridge”

Thursday, 24^th November 7pm

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College

This event aims to give you an overview of the tests your social enterprise idea must pass in the very beginning as well as the concrete steps you can take to start a social enterprise in Cambridge (i.e funding, incorporation, office space). We are pleased to welcome Neil Prem and Martin Clark from Future Business, a company specialising in professional enterprise and career coaching in the social sector, to discuss these issues.

This event builds on our Enterprise Tuesday session on November 22nd where you can develop a first social enterprise idea. Hence, this event will be a great opportunity for you to test your initial ideas and find out more about the first steps to take to create your own social enterprise. Of course, you are more than welcome to join us at this event even if you do not join us on November 22nd.

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/160300680735908/

Events in the academic year 2010-2011

Event5 – Social Enterprise Evening

The social enterprise evening included:

* A talk delivered by Dr. Martin Clark, Deputy Chief Executive of Future Business, on the growth and impact of social enterprise in the Cambridge area.

* A series of ‘snapshot’, five-minute presentations delivered by student and community actors on their involvement in social enterprise.

* An hour to an hour and a half drinks reception and networking session.

Event4 – From dream to reality – funding and support for social enterprise

Want to learn about how you could set up your social start up or project and how to get funding and support for it?

UnLtd is a charity which supports social entrepreneurs: people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. They do this by providing a complete package of funding and support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality. And why not hear from some students who have done it themselves?

Sobia is a current Cambridge student who is an Unltd Award winner for her start up datagiving.com She will tell us about her experience, the challenges she has had to overcome and how she has achieved her success to date.

Event 3 – Social entrepreneurs, the models they use, and you

Want to find out what social enterprise is and what social entrepreneurs actually do?Ever wanted to find out how you could start your own social enterprise or just get involved?

Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, they have elected over 3000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 70 countries. Nick Sireau is an Ashoka Fellow from Cambridge and, as Chairman of the AKU Society, a successful social entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical space.

You’ll get the chance to meet them, find out what they do and learn how you can do it too.

See http://solar-aid.org/ and http://www.alkaptonuria.info/en/home.php? for some more information on the topics being discussed at the event. This event is co hosted with the Cambridge Hub as part of the hub series.

Event 2 – The Future of Entrepreneurship

A targeted workshop with only 30 places available,providing practical advice on how to start an ethically centred business that can also make a profit.

The session will by led by Amanda Jones co founder of Red Button Design, a for profit social enterprise developing products exclusively for the humanitarian industry. Amanda has successfully pitched on the Dragon’s Den and is an Enterprise UK Ambassador and a fellow of the RSA.

Event 1 – The Future of Entrepreneurship

Cfel’s ‘Enterprise Tuesday’ panel discussion on ‘Which customer? And why this matters?’ focuses on environmental and social inclusion and the new business potentials these hold. A discussion group for 30 attendees following this will build on these questions and confront the issue of what will define the next generation of entrepreneurship.

The main discussion group includes Pamela Hartigan, Director of Oxford’s Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Howard Chase of Enval Limited, with Neil Prem and Martin Clark from Citylife moderating our focused discussion group.