In this online session, you will find out how to design a dynamic plan-on-a-page for your purposeful business, helping you to stay focussed and maximise your impact.

Social enterprises take a business approach to achieving their mission and making a difference. To ensure lasting impact, they require a viable business model. By ‘business model’ we mean a design for the successful operation of a business. It describes how you will reach customers, give them something they value, and make enough money from doing so to achieve your social impact. A Social Business Model Canvas provides a powerful visual tool to help with planning your business.

What you will learn:

This workshop will provide an introduction to the Social Business Model Canvas, a social impact iteration of the renowned Business Model Canvas used by start-ups and established ventures all over the world.

The Social Business Model Canvas encourages founders and managers to look at how to:

– define your value proposition

– reach your customers

– engage with key partners and stakeholders

– make enough money

– maximise impact

Who is it for?

Social enterprises, trading charities and purposeful businesses in Oxfordshire, UK.

Early-stage social enterprises and impact ventures will be able to use this tool to help them articulate their ideas and kick-start their business.

More established organisations will also benefit from taking a fresh look at their operations and business design.

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Facilitators

Ashley Cavers

Ashley Cavers is a business adviser for the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP) and currently helps to manage eScalate, an OxLEP programme supporting charities, social enterprises and purposeful businesses. Ashley is also an experienced entrepreneur – she is the co-founder and director of The Wonky Food Company, which makes products from imperfect and surplus fruit and vegetables.

About the eScalate Programme

eScalate, is a three-year project, part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) which runs until April 2023 to support Social Enterprises, social entrepreneurs, enterprising charities and purposeful businesses in Oxfordshire.

Support includes:

• one to ones
• workshops
• peer support sessions

For more information about the eScalate programme , visit www.oxfordshirelep.com/escalate

Please note that this event is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and is delivered as part of the eScalate programme to help SMEs. By engaging in this programme you are being offered assistance under the De Minimis regulation which allows a company to receive up to but not exceeding €200,000 of public funding (at the applicable exchange rate) of De Minimis aid over a rolling three-tax year fiscal period. This De Minimis declaration does not cover undertakings engaged in: the primary production of agricultural goods and fisheries/aquaculture, road freight, services of general economic interest and export related activities and activities favouring domestic over imported goods. Please note, support cannot be given to undertakings (businesses) in difficulty. In order to receive support from this programme, you will be required to complete an application form and other relevant documentation. If you need to check your current position for state aid please contact us. If you would like any further information on De Minimis aid and Special Drawing Rights (SDR) subsidies, please see the state aid page on the OxLEP Business website:

https://oxlepbusiness.co.uk/state-aid