UnLtd: Grow your Venture

Archived Active citizenship Adult Education/Learning Age Aged 60+ Communities Community and neighbourhood development Community development Education and learning environment Governance and charity law Health, wellbeing and sport Information Technology Miscellaneous organisational development social enterprise Social partnership Strategic and project planning Trading Un/Employed Urban development Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Medium (up to £60,000) Small (up to £10,000)

Track grant Notes

Overview

About You

You have identified a social issue and developed a business model that works to solve it
You are committed to, and have a track record of, delivering local, regional or national social impact at scale
You are experienced, ambitious and capable of growing your venture
You have a realistic growth plan
You are committed to working full time in your social venture

About Your Venture

You are running a social venture that is already making a positive difference to people's lives. You have compelling evidence of your impact. You might want to continue to grow to achieve your ambitions, or want further support to make sure your idea is financially sustainable.

Your venture is at least one year old and ideally less than five years old
Your venture is dynamic and ready to grow to local, regional or national scale and has a logical and appropriate plan to deliver this
You have a compelling performance to date and/or a logical and appropriate plan for rapid growth to reach local, regional or national scale
Your principal objective for the year ahead is not to secure (significant) investment
Your venture targets beneficiaries predominantly based in the UK

What UnLtd Offer

This award is designed to help you to get to the next stage. It gives you up to £15,000 to help you grow, as well as expert, tailored advice to help you to achieve your ambitions. Alongside the funding, you get a unique package of support including one-to-one coaching from a dedicated Social Entrepreneur Support Manager (one of their experts in supporting social entrepreneurs), training, mentoring and access to networks of other passionate people doing good.

12 months mentoring and tailored support from an Social Entrepreneur Support Manager, providing advice on operations and growth strategies
Expert advice including access to workshops and masterclasses
Up to £15,000 funding to support wages and living costs
Connections to investors, corporate partners and other successful entrepreneurs, helping you to develop your networks

Award Criteria

UnLtd supports those who are:

Aged 16 and over
Living in the United Kingdom
Willing to participate in a learning experience
Working to benefit people living in the United Kingdom
Have a real social impact
Fulfil a clear need and demand
Have clear outputs and goals

UnLtd are committed to 50% of their awards going to Black, Asian and minority ethnic social entrepreneurs, and/or disabled social entrepreneurs across their funding programmes.