Social Leaders “Pitch In” for investment and win high impact award
Running during Global Enterprise Week social leaders will have the opportunity to prepare for a live pitch to potential investors at Action for Social Enterprise 25th – 26th November earning the event a prestigious ‘High Impact Badge of Honour’ from Global Entrepreneurship Week. The University of Manchester is working in partnership with Social Solutions Academy [...]
Read MoreAcademy search for help to allow social leaders to learn new business skills
The Social Solutions Academy only has 10 days left to find private sector leaders who are willing to sponsor a learning and development package for 20 Social Entrepreneurs. The North West has been significantly impacted by cuts in public sector funding. Many of the social leaders we are talking to are preparing to close fabulous [...]
Read MoreManchester beacons of public engagement
Vanessa Augustus, Head of Innovation & Partnerships will be a panellist for the Beacons for Public Engagement Recognition Awards Panel 2011. The awards aim: To recognise mutually beneficially community-university partnerships making a difference to Greater Manchester To support new, emerging and existing community-university partnerships to improve their sustainability and development through a small award [...]
Read MoreSSA Team Zip Slide for FareShare Northwest
Our youngest supporter my son Amalakin (aged 14) will launch off the 30m high Imperial War Museum on Saturday 16th July. He'll have an exhilarating 250m zip slide across the Manchester Ship Canal, all for fun and a brilliant local cause! Amalakin is representing the Social Solutions Academy to help one of our new members Emerge [...]
Read MoreInspiring Women Awards May 2011
Vanessa Augustus has been announced as a finalist for the Social Entrepreneur category for the 19th annual Inspiring Women Awards. After receiving her nomination from SSA Member Lisa Rossetti, Positive Lives, Vanessa said "I am truly honored other people think our work is making a difference. Like many others my journey as an aspiring social [...]
Read MoreSpot light on Social Leadership
Vanessa Augustus, Head of Innovations and Partnerships will be on-line this week as a panellist on the Guardian Social Enterprises Network Q&A about Social Leadership. The live discussion is scheduled for Thursday 21st of April, 1-3pm. Do not miss out if you’re interested in catching up on a conversation on social leadership for social enterprises. [...]
Read MoreIs Humility the Key to Business Success?
Professor Albert Barker, one of the UK’s leading supporters of Action Learning, a form of learning whilst doing, which enables leaders to achieve more, presented a workshop on the afternoon of 16 March in Manchester. His key message was that in order to grow as a leader you have to say “I don’t know” and [...]
Read MoreThe Future 100 Young Entrepreneurs – 2009
Vanessa Augustus, Founder of the Social Solutions Academy has been announced as a winnner in the Striding Out Future 100 2009 competition. Earlier this year Striding Out put a search out for talented young entrepreneurs aged 18-35 who demonstrate entrepreneurial flair and innovation in progressing a responsible business venture to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009. [...]
Read MoreSSA speaks on Big Society
The National School of Government has invited the Social Solutions Academy’s Training & Development team back to contribute to their 2011 Master class sessions on “Making it happen- the challenge of the ‘Big Society’. The National School of Government (NSG) provide learning and development programmes for the civil service. The SSA team were delighted to [...]
Read More18/11/10 Social Enterprise Action Day
We delivered our first successful Social Enterprise Action Day (SEAD) on 18th November 2010. The high quality learning event attracted a range of new and established social enterprises from the North West. "The 'Winning public contracts' session very good, I was very impressed with content. The facilitator had undertaken some research about my social enterprise [...]
Read MoreCongratulations from Leader of the Councillor
Our Head of Marketing & PR Tamsin Fielden was behind the driving force of our marketing strategy for our successful Social Enterprise Action Day. Engaging with the public sector presented challenges at times. Tamsin proved that persistence leads to results after receiving the following message from Councillor Matthew Colledge, Leader of Trafford Council. “We appreciate [...]
Read MoreSSA to increase confidence and skills for Gorton people
The Social Solutions Academy (SSA) has been commissioned by Gorton People Stronger Together to deliver a bespoke employability and skills coach course. Each session is designed to be fun and interactive. Participants will also be given personal coaching sessions. The course is aimed at Gorton residents seeking to improve employability skills, access information and consider [...]
Read MoreSocial Innovation Panel Get to Work!
We officially launched our Social Innovation Incubator during Social Enterprise Action Day, 18th November 2010 During the day a Social Innovation Panel comprising of commissioning, social entrepreneurs, private sector leaders and academics contributed to a discussion focused in worklessness in two deprived neighbourhoods in Manchester. What did the Social Innovation Panel do? Panel members were [...]
Read More1st Birthday Celebrations
Birthday and Beyond! The Social Solutions Academy team celebrated a great first birthday party at Innospace, Minshull House on 30th September 2010. Vanessa Augustus, Head of Innovation and her team of Connection Managers welcomed members and guests to an evening of entertainment, education, connections for business, laughter and fun! Guest speaker Esmail Patel from D.E.A.F [...]
Read MoreGuiding you to social enterprise success
The Social Solutions Academy is excited about the launch of its first publication, 'The No Nonsense Guide to Social Enterprise Success’. The eye catching easy to read is packed with articles from local industry experts presently working with social entrepreneurs and public sector funding managers in the North West. Issue one is now available and [...]
Read MoreGorton Lady meets Lord to build “Big Society”
Social entrepreneur, Vanessa Augustus met with Lord Nat Wei, the government’s chief advisor on “Big Society”, on 16 July 2010 to share ideas about how Big Society can happen. The event was hosted by the Commission for the New Economy to introduce Lord Wei to a select group of Greater Manchester’s social entrepreneurs and change [...]
Read MoreGorton Lady meets Lord to build “Big Society”
Social entrepreneur, Vanessa Augustus met with Lord Nat Wei, the government’s chief advisor on “Big Society”, on 16 July 2010 to share ideas about how Big Society can happen. The event was hosted by the Commission for the New Economy to introduce Lord Wei to a select group of Greater Manchester's social entrepreneurs and change [...]
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Testimonials
Vanessa was a key presenter at our very first Social Enterprise Symposium at the university producing at fairly short notice an excellent presentation that was both informative and interesting. Following an expression of my desire to make the event bigger and better next year, Vanessa went from presenter to partner. We are now working hard to make that happen. Vanessa's drive and list of contacts is proving invaluable and I have no doubt that the Social Enterprise Action Day (2010) will be a fantastic success for all concerned.
Dr Martin Henery, Programme Director – MSc.Enterprise, Manchester Enterprise Centre
