Wednesday 16 June 2023

With Cliff Prior, Lily Lapenna, Christoph Warrack, Matt Kepple.

Social entrepreneurship is a rapidly growing sector, seizing interest in business schools, Government, think tanks, charities and companies. But the term is so broad that it hides major tensions. Participants will explore these tensions, the lessons learned on social entrepreneurs and impacts so far, and engage in a creative discussion about the future.

Oxford Entrepreneurs & Coventry University Entrepreneurs bring you this event on social entrepreneurship which will be held at Adam Street Club on Wednesday 16 June. Keynote speakers and panelists include Cliff Prior, CEO, UnLtd, Lilly Lapenna, CEO, MyBnk, Christoph Warrack, CEO, Open Cinema and Matt Kepple, Cabinet Office Ambassador for Social Enterprise and Chairman of The Commission for Youth Social Enterprise.

About the theme

In the red corner: the active community agenda. People from disadvantaged communities taking initiative to improve their neighbourhoods. Community involvement, mutual ownership, and social capital are their touchstones.

In the blue corner: the social business movement. What matters is scaling up, social entrepreneurs with real business models who can deliver social impact at scale and with profit or at least financial self sufficiency. Impact, investment and growth are their icons.

And in the middle? the blended social enterprise model, with its asset lock and partial ability to distribute profits.

Which will win out? Or is it horses for courses, with market segmentation and greater clarity on which models are most useful when?

This session will outline UnLtd’s work, lessons learned on social entrepreneurs and impacts, and open out to engage participants in a creative discussion about the future.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Matt Keppel is Chairman of The Commission for Youth Social Enterprise and represents youth social entrepreneurship at the Cabinet Office. He has set up multiple social initiatives including GRADULICIOUS, WillWeMakeIt.com, Passion4Fashion, Sponsor-a-Kid-for-a-Quid which won him Channel4’s IDEASFACTORY Award and currently developing Wahblo.com. 

Lily Lapenna is Founder of MyBnk, creating an independent peer led banking programme which teaches young people how to save, spend and lend money responsibly. Working with young people as young as nine years old, she is fundamentally changing how people relate to finance, financial services as well as enterprise. In just 3 years over 20,000 young people from the ages of 9 to 25 have been exposed to MyBnk. Lily was recently awarded the Young Social Entrepreneur of the year by the UK Government. In January 2010 she was awarded the prestigious Ashoka Fellowship.

Christoph Warrack, Founder and CEO of Open Cinema. Open Cinema is a national network of film clubs programmed by and for homeless and socially excluded people. Each year it helps 3000 homeless and excluded teenagers and adults to regain mental health as well as building their confidence and employability through weekly film nights, interactive discussions with major filmmakers, and practical filmmaking projects. Working with the NHS, Metropolitan Police, Crisis, St Mungo’s, Channel 4 and over 20 other leading film and social sector agencies, we are the only organisation providing such a powerful means of engaging chronically excluded people.

Cliff Prior, CEO of UnLtd. UnLtd is a charity which supports social entrepreneurs - people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. We do this by providing a complete package of funding and support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7:00: Drinks - 7:30: Cliff’s talk - 8:30: Drinks & networking

Address: Adam Street Club, 9 Adam Street (Off the Strand), WC2N 6AA London

Dress code: none

Register here.

UnLtd is a charity which supports social entrepreneurs - people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. We do this by providing a complete package of funding and support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality.

CU Entrepreneurs runs one of the most successful student-run business creation competitions in the world. The CUE Committee is an exciting and dynamic team of students that meets regularly and runs the organisation.

The Committee attracts some of our most talented and interesting members – most of us want to start businesses on graduation, if we are not already running them. We’re getting great experience from building the Society and running it in a way that is a model for our members in terms of innovation, quality and ambition.

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