A unique course on Social Enterprise made up of six inter-linked modules:
• The Relevance of Social Enterprise Further details
• Planning the Social Objectives Further details
• Setting up and Managing the Business Further details
• Democratic Working of a Social Enterprise Further details
• Sustainable Benefits of Social Enterprise Further details
• Final Piece of Work – Independent Study
Social enterprise is experiencing a meteoric rise in interest and relevance not only in this country but in Europe and the rest of the world. But what is social enterprise really about? This University of Hull course enables participants to understand the core issues and help them plan, develop, manage, govern and support social enterprise in a way that is relevant, feasible and sustainable.
There are many routes to social enterprise, be it concern about problems in the community, supporting disadvantaged individuals, setting up your own business with social aims, involvement with fair trade, wanting to deliver services more enterprisingly, creating trading arms in a school or charity or wanting to work co-operatively. This course deals with all routes under the common purpose of social enterprise: Trading that is governed by social objectives.
Social Enterprise is really an entirely new way of working, a way of creating a new sort of wealth and most of all a way of changing people and the world. It is not an easy route and the conflicts between social goals and business, values and democratic working call for innovative approaches to planning, governing, selling and managing.
This unique course is a University Foundation Award accredited by The University of Hull. It is split into 6 linked two-day modules, each dealing with different aspects of social enterprise. Written assignments at the end of each module are designed to help participants put together a Social Enterprise Plan based on their own work, future enterprise or a social enterprise that they are assisting.
The course is delivered in partnership with Social Enterprise Europe Ltd, who have an unsurpassed knowledge of setting up and managing successful social enterprises based on over 20 years of experience. They will also introduce participants to their pioneer work in alternative legal structures and social licences.
The course is also appropriate to those interested in the field of social enterprise based in EU countries. Last year there were successful participants form Poland and Ireland and those interested from EU might qualify for funding from Grundtvig.
Each module costs £70 – (Subsidised places available for those on low incomes) and will be delivered at the University’s Scarborough Campus
Next full social enterprise course is being run at the Scarborough Campus on these dates:
9 & 10 October The Relevance of Social Enterprise
6 & 7 November Planning the Social Objectives
11 & 12 December Setting up and managing the business
8 & 9 January Democratic working of social enterprise
5 & 6 February Sustainable benefits of a social enterprise
For enrollment details of the Scarborough course please contact Jane Baxter at Hull University ++ 44 (0) 1723 507 284 or click on this link
