Realign, Amplify & Sharpen Your Social Purpose for Greater Impact

About This Workshop

Have you ever felt that your mission sounds generic, or struggled to express why your organisation exists in a way that truly adds value?

Do you find it hard to get others on board with what you’re doing or understand what you’re really about?

This isn’t just another reflective session - it’s an engaging, interactive session to help you:

· Uncover the core social purpose that drives your work

· Test and refine how you talk about your purpose

· Use your purpose to overcome barriers to finding trade-based income streams

· Get live feedback from mission-driven peers

· Leave with an action plan to embed the purpose into everything you do

You’ll Walk Away With:

· A sharper, more compelling social purpose

· Clear actions to trigger internal communication for greater alignment (team / board / volunteers) around your core mission

· Confidence to answer “Why do you exist?” in a way that resonates

· A capacity boost to ensure your social purpose is fit for increasing your trading potential

· Realigned social purpose towards greater trading for social good

· Certainty to evaluate trading and funding decisions in the light of your re-aligned purpose

Who It’s For:

You are a Stockport based and/ or active social entrepreneur, enterprising charity leader, or a mission-driven organisation that wants to:

· Clarify your social purpose (or refresh it)

· Build stronger internal alignment

· Become more attractive to commissioners, partners and funders

· Overcome barriers to increasing trading potential

· Build partner and peer support locally to share ideas and learning with

What We’ll Cover:

· Welcome

· Purpose realignment and clarity exercises

· Explore and understand relevant contexts and concepts to increase trading potential

· Examine and challenge your barriers to increased trading for social good

· Peer & expert feedback & critique

· Action plan & next steps mapping

What To Bring:

· A rough draft / idea of your current mission or purpose (if you have one)

· Notebook or laptop

· Openness to share, explore & test (NB: this workshop will recognise the need for a level of business confidentiality)

Workshop led by: · Sarah Spanton of Waymarking C.I.C. – www.waymarking.org.uk – Sarah is an experienced facilitator (for over 35 years), who specialises in place-based economic, social and environmental resilience. Her workshops are friendly and lead participants through challenging topics in a highly engaging and accessible way.

Investment / Price: £5 plus Eventbrite Fees

Accessibility & Notes: We are committed to creating an inclusive environment. Please let us know if you need support with access, mobility, or other accommodations.