Skills for Social Entrepreneurs

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About Skills for Social Entrepreneurs

Skills for Social Entrepreneurs is the British Council’s project that provides international learning and networking and aims to create partnerships across the public, private and third sectors.

Through this programme, we want to engage social entrepreneurs in the UK and across the world to look for new ways of doing business for social purpose.

We are working with social entrepreneurs, communities, schools and universities, think tanks, government agencies and NGOs
We are providing opportunities to network and develop partnership ideas through international events and study tours to and from the UK
We are developing training programmes to support social entrepreneurs in increasing the impact of their work
We are exploring funding schemes with partners to create more investment opportunities in social entrepreneurship

The programme is being run in Croatia, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Serbia, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and Vietnam.

Skills for Social Entrepreneurs is in Croatia carried out in partnership with the National Foundation for Civil Society Development and the Government Office for NGO’s.

What is a social enterprise?

A social enterprise is a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners.

Being entrepreneurial is much more than just doing a deal. It's also about creating the ideal: empowering a community and solving social problems.

Local activities

Conference on Social Enterprises in the Republic of Croatia: Opportunities and challenges organised by the Office for Cooperation with NGOs of the Government of the Republic of Croatia and British Council Croatia. Guest speaker from the UK was John Bromley, Director of the National Social Marketing Centre (17 November 2009)
Two rounds of trainings on Understanding and Developing Social Enterprise for Civil Society Organisations delivered by Social Enterprise London for representatives of the civil society organisations that receive institutional support from the National Foundation for Civil Society Development and representatives of the civil society organisations that are partners of the National Foundation on the Regional Development Programme working on increasing civil society organisations’ capacity on local and regional level (March 2010)
Regional training for trainers on Social Entrepreneurship in South-East Europe in Belgrade with six Croatian participants, representatives of civil society organisations and representatives of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (July 2010)
The 2nd conference of the Croatian Donors Forum organised by the National Foundation for Civil Society Development, British Council Croatia and the US Embassy with guest speakers from the UK: John Bromley, Director of the National Social Marketing Centre, and Phil Tulba, The Young Foundation (30 September – 2 October 2010)
Three module training Social Enterprise Planning Course delivered by Local Livelihoods’ trainer Freer Spreckley and the local trainers (November 2010 – February 2011)

Being part of Skills for Social Entrepreneurs means your social enterprise becomes a part of a growing international network.

Join the British Council’s Skills for Social Entrepreneurs online platform that aims to connect and empower socially-minded people, and help them generate greater positive impact in the real world. Registration is free.

http://skillsforsocialentrepreneurs.co.uk/

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