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