FROM BANGLADESH TO BRIXTON
OVERVIEW
The Big Idea
Why Us?
The Current Problem
Our Solution
Traction and Validation
What's The Future
The Ask
Think of Unltd - applied Grameen Style
Decent Work for Everyone
Create solutions together
THE BIG IDEA - WHY
Solutions must add up
Taxpayers to the government
Business rate payers to local government
We Sell:
Paying tenants to social landlords
We create work and increase employability
THE BIG IDEA - THE SELL
Architecture as living processes that generate form
We do social innovations as living processes
Christopher Alexander refers to Unfolding process
No separation between design and implementation
WHAT LIES UNDERNEATH
3. Unfolding
2. Bird's Eye and Worm's Eye View
1. Living Systems
WHY US?
Went to Bangladesh to research why Grameen had managed to scale without mission drift
Sofia Bustamante-FRSAInspirational Visionary — London Leader
Designer of the core product. Social process geek. Ability to motivate and inspire teams
Mamading CeesayFuturist — Thought Leader
Identifies the context, forges relationshipsSocial Tech GeekHelped initiate the Brixton Pound & the formation of Space Makers (Brixton Village Market)
WHY US?
CoreTeam
Trustees
Worklessness — is still not shiftingThe major design solutions don't address the root causes.
Fractured Communities reduce well being
Need to address the demand for labour as well as the supply(through startup creation)
Need to unlock the hard to reach to be economically active, solution creators and part of the startups
Employability
Fractured, IsolatedCommunities
Low Levels of Well Being
THE PROBLEM
Person-Person
OUR SOLUTION — MULTI-LEVEL
Community Level -Bigger Picture Mapping
Hosting dialogues & community building —Facilitatory Leadership
Intra personal
Group Level — Social startup lab ventures
Social Startup
Labs
Skills Camps
Social Startup
Incubator
Stimulating Supply Stimulating Demand
Getting people market-ready
Creating the market
Going to market
OUR SOLUTION — THREE PRONGED
Social Startup
Labs
Skills Camps
Social Startup
Incubator
Getting people market-ready
Creating the market
Going to market
OUR SOLUTION
Social Startup Labs - Where Startups Are Born
Social Startup Labs - where Startups are born
OUR SOLUTION — CREATING THE MARKET
Social Startup Labs - where Startups are born
OUR SOLUTION — CREATING THE MARKET
What Happened?
Skills Camps - Where Career Coaches Are Discovered
Skills Camps — Where Career Coaches are discovered
Learn by doing Introduce Reflective
Enquiry1-1 coaching Co-delivery
No- box-ticking -stake
Certificate of Achievement Buddy System
Physical Hub
Zero gap between
problem &
Wider Economic Context
Relationship to Power
Structures
Stimulate an ongoing
Community of
Stand out as truly caring
and colourful
OUR SOLUTION — GETTING PEOPLE MARKET-READY
OUR SOLUTION — GETTING PEOPLE MARKET-READYClaudius
I learnt how to be confident and assertive with the skill and abilities I never knew I already had. It taught me how to pass on information and supporting skill to those who may have low self-esteem or those who are unable to recognise their own potential.
They made me feel that I was part of a family, rather than that I was just in a class of people. The delivery of the class was excellent and I would recommend this to anyone.
Thank you for all your support and guidance... you will always be my family.”
Skills Camps — Where Career Coaches are discovered
Yvonne
Skills Camps — Where Career Coaches are discovered
OUR SOLUTION — GETTING PEOPLE MARKET-READY
The coaches were able to help me see in myself some things that I was unable or didn't really think mattered in getting a job. I now find that I can reach out and look at jobs I did not feel I had the capacity to do.Thanks, Sylvana and the Skills Camps group”.
Roseanne
Skills Camps — Where Career Coaches are discovered
OUR SOLUTION — GETTING PEOPLE MARKET-READY
Its always been my desire to do something that I love — now i'm dead set on it!
I thought I was confident I now know I was not and what confidence really is.
Skills Camps — Where Career Coaches are discovered
OUR SOLUTION — GETTING PEOPLE MARKET-READY
The course is cleverly structured in a way allowing the participants to truly learn and gain real and practical experience of both life and career coaching.
The course also expertly extracts hidden talents, potential and instils a new motivation in theparticipants making them more ready for the job market and empowered to create a new, uniqueand perfectly suited path in both their professional and personal lives.
Jerry
The Big Test
?
TRACTION AND VALIDATION
Skills Camps
Social Startup
Labs
Social Startup
Incubator
TRACTION AND VALIDATION
It Worked!
71%
93%
95%
72%
63%
42%
53%
75%
Skills Camps Social Startup Labs
Change in work or learning status
External Achievement of Behaviour Change
Internal shift — Social/Emotional State
Learning
Achievement
Benefit
60 Career Coaches67 Career Coaches 19 Ventures/ 2 Labs
20 Ventures/ 4 Labs
NetworkInterpersonal Relationship
AIM
RESULT
Conversion/Retention 90%/80% Wider LCL Community 500
TRACTION AND VALIDATION
AIM
RESULT
What were we right about
TRACTION AND VALIDATION
What were we wrong about?
What surprised us
This demographic needs very deep work. Breakthroughs are possibleThis increases participation in the economy. This demographic can be inventive and resourceful
The community was more fractured than we thought. Higher level of distrustKnowledge about how things get done is less then we thought
How much resistance there was at first both in the labs and the Skills CampsThat people stayed at the labs for a full day. The very small interventions that can make all the difference
Bridging and Linking Social Capital
Zero Waste
Increased Economic Complexity
Stimulated Supply and demand
Community Learning — tools for change widely diffused
Communities own their own data
EMERGENT OUTCOMES
Critical mass of empowered citizens — will change everything
Awarded London Leader status
Ashoka UK - says to keep doing what we are doing - we are on course for a fellowship, if this goes from hundreds to thousandsNext step is to hit thousands
Hang Ho, Head of Philanthropy at JP Morgan - said that she would give us a positive reference from what she has heard in the neighbourhood about our work
Lamiya Morshed, Chief of Staff at Yunus Centre, Grameen and personal secretary to Muhammad Yunus: "if you keep focused on what you are doing in 5 years you could be the next big thing"
Testimonials from Beneficiaries - please see the handouts.
Paul McGlone, Cabinet Member, London Borough of Lambeth, "We need to roll out what you are doing 1000 times
VALIDATION — OTHER ORGANISATIONS
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