Nexters is our programme that supports the UK’s best social entrepreneurs. By identifying and nurturing social entrepreneurs, we are supporting the development of innovative solutions to improve our society. This may begin at the local level, but we believe these services should be scalable and sustainable – using the power of networked technology this is more than possible.
There are 62,000 social enterprises in the UK, contributing over £24bn to the economy and employing 800,000 people [Annual Survey of Small Businesses, 2005-7]. When surveyed, social entrepreneurs identified skills training and development as the second most important enabler after finance and 94% of social entrepreneurs surveyed said that they can share risk and support each others’ mission by collaborating [The Guardian]. Our programme provides a range of support including financial investment, mentoring, marketing and PR or office space and facilities.
Within the Nexters group we have the talent to:
● reinvent how businesses think about and enact their social responsibility
● create genuinely disruptive innovations to promote new forms of charity giving
● provide scalable mediation of professional giving of time to good causes
● begin to explore the potential of the nascent sharing economy
● launch a suite of new multi-source platforms for funding community and arts productions.
For more information about our Nexters Programme please visit http://www.nexters.co.uk/
Deloitte Social Innovation Pioneers
We are delighted to support Deloitte Social Innovation Pioneers. This is an exciting new support programme for innovative businesses and entrepreneurs in the UK that can demonstrate real potential for growth and have an ambition to deliver a large-scale, sustainable and positive impact in society. Up to 50 social enterprises and social innovations will be chosen to receive a bespoke package of support from a broad range of Deloitte employees, in addition to social business experts with the aim to help them mainstream, achieve scale and become investment-ready.
Applications open 23rd November 2011 and close on 29th January 2012
To apply and find out more about this exciting programme please visit www.deloitte.com/pioneers