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We're here today to celebrate the first cohort of the scale up programme that Lloyds Bank
has been sponsoring for the last 12 months.
Today we're focussing on getting feedback from each of the graduates that have been
on the programme for the 12 months, but we're also focussing on five finalists that have
come out of the scale up programme. They've been nominated as individuals who have done
outstanding things within their programme and today we will hear who the winner of those
five finalists is.
Our mission statement is Helping Britain Prosper and I don't think there's another programme
within the Group of the likes of the School for Social Entrepreneurs. We're here to actually
help individuals with their ideas, with their aspirations, but actually they want to help
their communities and the people around them.
They're all about achieving social change. They're all about growth as a mechanism to
deliver social value and it's been an amazing celebration to hear them all at the end of
their first year.
This is the first cohort, so 154 social entrepreneurs. And we're really excited, because the work
we have done with the School for Social Entrepreneurs and the Big Lottery has effectively doubled
it. And the numbers we have taken onto the programme is nearly 300 social entrepreneurs,
either starting up or scaling up their social enterprises. Truly inspiring stories of people
who will make a really difference in the heart of communities.
On this programme, which is the scale up programme, each individual is getting a £15,000 grant,
which they're really making work for them to transform their enterprises from maybe
a proven concept that's working in one community and it's the chance to replicate it and spread
its impact and effect across multiple communities, so those small grants make a huge difference.
The award that I have just won today is the Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award. It's
for all the innovative work we have done around setting up a business in Liverpool, called
The Brink Liverpool which is a bar with no ***. It means masses to us because it also
comes with £10,000 of investment which will go towards creating jobs, developing our capacity
and also developing our marketing and our brand which is really crucial for us right
now.