Info session: Community Business Trade Up Programme 2022

Has your community organisation been running for less than four years? Is it led by local people?

The Community Business Trade Up Programme delivered by the School for Social Entrepreneurs, in partnership with Power to Change, will give you the head-space, support network and funding needed to start or diversify your income from trading. You’ll become a stronger, more sustainable community business as a result of this free programme.

You'll get:

• Up to £5,000 Match Trading grant

• A community business peer mentor

• An opportunity to learn from experts and also meet regularly with other people running organisations like yours

• You’ll also benefit from SSE’s practical learning style and Action Learning approach

We welcome applications from all community businesses. We’re particularly keen to support community business who meet any of these criteria:

• Led by a board or team who are mostly from racialised and minoritised communities*
• Led by a board or team who are mostly young people (aged 16-35)
• Located in and giving support to very deprived or disadvantaged local communities

Sign up to the info session to learn all about the programme

* We know that language about identity is personal and these terms won’t feel right to everyone. By “people from racialised and minoritised communities”, we mean people who may identify as Black, Brown, bi- or multi-racial, being from a diaspora, having Asian/African/Caribbean/Latinx/Middle Eastern/Indigenous heritage, as a “person of colour”, Jewish, and/or from a white ethnic minority such as Gypsy, Roma, Traveller. We have consulted our community to shape this language.