Children and Young People Social Enterprise Network

Welcome to the Children and Young People Social Enterprise Network, an online information portal for CYP organisations that are starting-up, growing or moving to a social enterprise model.

The Network brings together two Department for Education (DfE) funded programmes, the Overarching Strategic Partnership (OAP) and the Catalyst Consortium.

On these pages you will find information and support to help you set up and run as a social enterprise: 

 

LATEST NEWS

Another successful Enterprising Future event

Social Enterprise UK delivered another "Enterprising Future" event at London's social enterprise Lift Islington.

Matt Stevenson-Dodd from Street League, Kathy Evans from Children England, and Peter Holbrook from Social Enterprise UK opened the day, and delegates took part in practical workshops and one-to-one business support sessions.

Download the workshop presentations on Accessing and Securing Finance, Proving and Marketing Your Value, and Winning Contracts.

For details of previous events, click here.

Join the VCS Hub for free

Do you offer activities to young people? ContinYou would like to invite social enterprises offering extra – curricular activities to join the VCS Hub for free, to raise their profile with schools and to access support to increase the quality of their provision. Find out more here.

New Business Planning Tool

Community Matters have released Can You Plan It? – A free participatory business planning tool. Find out more here.

Replication in Action Case Studies

 The Replication in Action programme works with youth organisations to develop their business model so that it can be successfully franchised or licensed. Read the stories of the latest cohort taking part here.

KEEP UP TO DATE

Our partners across the Overarching Strategic Partnership are all under-taking a number of activities to support children and young people's organisations across the country. You can read the news here.

Receive the Social Enterprise UK electronic newsletter for updates about these programmes, as well as policy briefings and event notifications.

THE CYP NETWORK

The Network brings together two Department for Education (DfE) funded programmes, the Overarching Strategic Partnership (OAP) and the Catalyst Consortium.

The Children and Young People Social Enterprise Network is being delivered by Social Enterprise UK as part of the Department for Education’s Overarching Strategic Partnership programme, focused on sharing and supporting best practice social enterprise models in the children and young people’s sector. 

The programme is led by Children England, working with Community Matters, NCVYS, NAVCA, The Race Equality Foundation and Social Enterprise UK.

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