School for Social Entrepreneurs
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The School for Social Entrepreneurs was founded by the British Social Entrepreneur Michael Young, also known as the Lord of Dartington, in 1997. Michael Young was a social innovator who had previously launched the Consumers' Association, the Open University and around 40 other organisations.
The School opened in the summer of 1997 and welcomed its first cohort of students in early 1998. Since then, over 400 social entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 80 have completed the SSE programs. Today the SSE runs nine active schools in Cornwall, Devon, East Midlands, Fife, Liverpool, London, Hampshire and Yorkshire, as well as international schools in Australia.
The School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) exists to provide training and opportunities to enable people to use their creative and entrepreneurial abilities more fully for social benefit. SSE supports individuals to set up new charities, social enterprises and social businesses across the UK.
The SSE runs practical learning programmes aimed at helping develop the individual entrepreneur and their organisation simultaneously: our approach, and belief, is that social change is people-powered, and that the most valuable assets and resources we have are human ones.
Each programme combines specific elements designed to provide an intensive, complete package of support that meets the needs of social entrepreneurs. This person-centred approach has been independently proven to create sustainable, thriving organisations that provide significant, lasting social and economic impact.
Following successful Millennium Awards programmes around the UK, the SSE expanded outside its base in Bethnal Green, London, and the network of SSEs around the UK continues to grow. Over 500 SSE Fellows have completed programmes around the country.In addition to its core programs, the SSE is involved in the policy and practitioners world as a strategic partner to the Office of the Third Sector, as well as through several other partner initiatives in the UK like the Shine Unconference and the Social Enterprise Ambassadors program.
The School opened in the summer of 1997 and welcomed its first cohort of students in early 1998. Since then, over 400 social entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 80 have completed the SSE programs. Today the SSE runs nine active schools in Cornwall, Devon, East Midlands, Fife, Liverpool, London, Hampshire and Yorkshire, as well as international schools in Australia.
The School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) exists to provide training and opportunities to enable people to use their creative and entrepreneurial abilities more fully for social benefit. SSE supports individuals to set up new charities, social enterprises and social businesses across the UK.
The SSE runs practical learning programmes aimed at helping develop the individual entrepreneur and their organisation simultaneously: our approach, and belief, is that social change is people-powered, and that the most valuable assets and resources we have are human ones.
Each programme combines specific elements designed to provide an intensive, complete package of support that meets the needs of social entrepreneurs. This person-centred approach has been independently proven to create sustainable, thriving organisations that provide significant, lasting social and economic impact.
Following successful Millennium Awards programmes around the UK, the SSE expanded outside its base in Bethnal Green, London, and the network of SSEs around the UK continues to grow. Over 500 SSE Fellows have completed programmes around the country.In addition to its core programs, the SSE is involved in the policy and practitioners world as a strategic partner to the Office of the Third Sector, as well as through several other partner initiatives in the UK like the Shine Unconference and the Social Enterprise Ambassadors program.