Social Support

Our social support offering rests on three foundations:

Social Enterprise Investment

This aligns business imperatives with clearly identified developmental needs.

What is Social Enterprise?

Social enterprises are businesses that are changing the world for the better. Like traditional businesses they aim to make a profit but it’s what they do with their profits that sets them apart, reinvesting them to create positive social change. In doing so, they are improving people’s lives in our communities and societies.

Our Social Enterprise Programme

We promote the development of social enterprise and social investment to help foster a more sustainable local economy, inclusive and prosperous future for us all (youth and women). Our programme draws on partners expertise, striving to share best practice and create opportunities for all (youth and women) between. Currently operating in the Northern Region and working with a partners, we provide social entrepreneurs with:

training
business mentoring and Consulting
access to finance and investment opportunities
networking opportunity

We also conduct research and organise policy dialogues, academic exchanges and public awareness activities which promote social enterprise and social investment among young and policy makers. We are steady on developing the social enterprise ecosystem through Our Ambition

Supporting community champions

Our programmes and events influence the way young people think and monitor them professionally, efficiently and with compassion

Who is a Community Champion?

Community Champions are people who make a positive difference by helping others. They are real people, men and women of all ages and backgrounds who have the time, commitment and skills to offer support. Some have professional backgrounds and use those skills as a volunteer. Others are "expert by experience" or have developed their skills through training.

Our Community Champions Programme

Champions are available to help you with lots of different issues.

help develop employability skills.
help in learning smart technology, particularly how to use it for business.
help in getting a job, through work clubs or 1-to-1 support.
help in getting the most out of ASHR
help in maximise benefits or deal with a change in circumstances.

We are making life better for young people and usually this means working co-operatively with community champions. We find new champions, provide support and match them up with people who need their help. Our team coordinate the service and sort resources including training, finding rooms and making sure that champions' expenses are covered.

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Knowledge Sharing

Among stakeholders both with startups, government and private sector.

What is Knowledge Sharing?

Knowledge sharing refers to the capture and distribution of learning that can benefit future projects and business for economic growth and sustainability.

Our Knowledge Sharing Programme

The programme helps build the enabling environment and develop the skills needed to capture and share knowledge gained from operational experiences to improve performance and scale up successes for startups, community projects and businesses for sustainable and economic growth. The programme:

helps locate the information startups, community projects or businesses need.
helps startups, community project or businesses not lose knowledge when people leave the company or project.
helps in stakeholders engagement.
helps in reduces knowledge interfering with inefficiencies
helps in connection between teams.
promote ASRH among young people and young professionals

The insights of the programme help identify what startups, community and businesses like about their current system, what is lacking, and where they’d like to see improvements.

The programme see's that, targeting operational challenges can be overcome through smart capturing and sharing of solutions and build culture that promotes high-quality knowledge capture, knowledge sharing, and learning with action on two fronts:

creating the enabling environment for it and
developing the technical skills it requires.