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This interactive session will introduce you to the essentials of setting up and funding a social business that will benefit the community.

Starting from the social problem you want to address, communicating your vision to others, and how to become sustainable as a business.

What will the event cover?

• Learning about the essential parts of setting a successful social enterprise including generating income and social impact
• Finding out what funding and support is available for new social enterprises
• An opportunity to meet others who want to create social change
• A focus on profit for purpose, people, and planet
• Tools to measure your social impact

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop if for anyone looking to start a social business that will benefit their local community and be kind to the planet. Come along if you have an idea that you want to explore or a have just started out. Whether you are unemployed, a professional looking for a new direction, a volunteer, or part of a community group, come and explore how your ideas can lead to sustainable social change.

About the speakers

Martin Downes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and the Learning and Development Programme Lead at the Wales Co-operative Centre. Martin regularly giving talks, lectures, and workshops on social enterprise at universities, colleges, and start-up programmes across Wales. Martin is the creator of the Hack of Kindness, an innovative social enterprise hackathon model that has engaged hundreds of people across Wales in developing social business ideas, and the architect of the Cambria Fellowship programme. Martin previously worked with UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, the anti-poverty charity Purple Shoots, and ran his own start-up creative agency Luminous Media.

Tom Addiscott is the Project Manager for the Heel the High Street project in RCT. For the last few years Tom has been working as a Business Advisor for Social Business Wales New Start at Wales Co-operative Centre supporting start-up social enterprises and is also a director of a social enterprise in RCT working with young people.

Book your free place now!

The project

The project, due to run up to September 2022, is an exciting place-based pilot centred around a business incubation and information hub. The aim of the project is to embrace opportunities for the development of local businesses which address needs in the Cynon Valley community. There will be a particular focus on creating new initiatives around sustainable food production and tackling climate change, supported by business development workshops and grants of up to £10,000.

The key is bringing people with common interests together to create the change those in Aberdare and surrounding area want to see – creating jobs, prospects and local economic prosperity now and for the future.

The project includes:

• Business start-up and growth advice
• Business ideation and planning workshops
• ILM-accredited and CMI-recognised business development qualifications
• Grants for food and climate change-related business development
• Health and well-being one-to-one provision
• Networking.

Privacy statement

Your personal information will only be used to in relation to the CORE project. We also want to be able to contact you regarding events and developments related to the project.

We will not share these contact details with anyone other than operational partners on the project and UK Government as funders. Anonymous feedback may be shared with selected partners and third parties to improve the project provision.

Any information that you share with us will be stored securely in line with the Wales Co-operative Centre’s GDPR policy. (https://wales.coop/privacy-notice-for-clients-trainees-volunteers-event-attendees/)

You have the right to withdraw your consent for us to use your data at any time and ask us to delete your data. If you have any questions, please contact: commercialteam@wales.coop

Find out more

For more information about the project, please contact the hub team at ann@ouraberdare.com and 07961 277987.

This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund.

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Dechrau a Chyllido Busnes Cymdeithasol

Bydd y sesiwn ryngweithiol hon yn eich cyflwyno i hanfodion sefydlu ac ariannu busnes cymdeithasol a fydd o fudd i'r gymuned.

Gan ddechrau o'r broblem gymdeithasol rydych chi eisiau mynd i'r afael â hi, cyfleu eich gweledigaeth i eraill, a sut i ddod yn gynaliadwy fel busnes.

Beth fydd y digwyddiad yn ei drafod?

• Dysgu am y rhannau hanfodol o sefydlu menter gymdeithasol lwyddiannus gan gynnwys cynhyrchu incwm ac effaith gymdeithasol
• Darganfod pa gyllid a chefnogaeth sydd ar gael ar gyfer mentrau cymdeithasol newydd
• Cyfle i gwrdd ag eraill sydd eisiau creu newid cymdeithasol
• Ffocws ar elw i bwrpas, pobl, a'r blaned
• Offer i fesur eich effaith gymdeithasol

Ar gyfer pwy mae’r gweithdy?

Mae'r gweithdy hwn ar gyfer unrhyw un sydd am ddechrau busnes cymdeithasol a fydd o fudd i'w cymuned leol ac a fydd yn garedig i'r blaned. Dewch draw os oes gennych syniad yr hoffech ei archwilio neu os ydych newydd ddechrau. P’un ai eich bod yn ddi-waith, yn weithiwr proffesiynol sy’n chwilio am gyfeiriad newydd, yn wirfoddolwr, neu’n rhan o grŵp cymunedol, dewch i drafod sut y gall eich syniadau arwain at newid cymdeithasol cynaliadwy.

Ynglŷn â’r siaradwyr

Mae Martin Downes yn Gymrawd Cymdeithas Frenhinol y Celfyddydau ac yn Arweinydd Rhaglen Dysgu a Datblygu yng Nghanolfan Cydweithredol Cymru. Mae Martin yn rhoi sgyrsiau, darlithoedd, a gweithdai ar fenter gymdeithasol yn rheolaidd mewn prifysgolion, colegau, a rhaglenni cychwyn busnesau ledled Cymru. Martin yw crëwr Hack of Kindness, model hacathon menter gymdeithasol arloesol sydd wedi ymgysylltu â channoedd o bobl ledled Cymru wrth ddatblygu syniadau busnes cymdeithasol, a phensaer rhaglen Cymrodoriaeth Cambria. Cyn hynny bu Martin yn gweithio gydag UnLtd, y Sefydliad Entrepreneuriaid Cymdeithasol, yr elusen gwrth-dlodi Purple Shoots, a bu’n rhedeg ei asiantaeth greadigol newydd ei hun, Luminous Media.

Tom Addiscott yw'r Rheolwr Prosiect ar gyfer prosiect Heel the High Street yn RhCT. Am yr ychydig flynyddoedd diwethaf mae Tom wedi bod yn gweithio fel Cynghorydd Busnes ar gyfer Cychwyn Newydd Busnes Cymdeithasol Cymru yng Nghanolfan Cydweithredol Cymru yn cefnogi mentrau cymdeithasol newydd ac mae hefyd yn gyfarwyddwr menter gymdeithasol yn RhCT sy’n gweithio gyda phobl ifanc.

Archebwch le yn rhad ac am ddim!

Y prosiect

Mae’r prosiect, a fydd yn rhedeg tan fis Medi 2022, yn beilot cyffrous seiliedig ar le sy’n canolbwyntio ar hyb deori busnesau a gwybodaeth. Nod y prosiect yw croesawu cyfleoedd i ddatblygu busnesau lleol sy’n mynd i’r afael ag anghenion yng nghymuned Cwm Cynon. Bydd ffocws penodol ar greu mentrau newydd yn gysylltiedig â chynhyrchu bwyd cynaliadwy a mynd i’r afael â newid hinsawdd, gyda chefnogaeth gweithdai datblygu busnesau a grantiau o hyd at £10,000.

Yr hyn sy’n allweddol yw dod â phobl gyda buddiannau cyffredin at ei gilydd i greu’r newid y mae’r rhai yn Aberdâr a’r cyffiniau am eu gweld - creu swyddi, rhagolygon a ffyniant economaidd lleol heddiw ac i’r dyfodol.

Mae'r prosiect yn cynnwys:

• Cyngor ar ddechrau busnes ac ar dwf
• Gweithdai syniadau am fusnes a chynllunio
• Cymwysterau datblygu busnes sy’n cael eu hachredu gan ILM a’u cydnabod gan CMI
• Grantiau ar gyfer datblygiadau busnesau cysylltiedig â bwyd a newid hinsawdd
• Darpariaeth iechyd a lles un-i-un
• Rhwydweithio.

Datganiad preifatrwydd

Dim ond mewn perthynas â phrosiect CCAM y bydd eich gwybodaeth bersonol yn cael ei defnyddio. Rydym ni hefyd am allu cysylltu â chi ynghylch digwyddiadau a datblygiadau sy'n ymwneud â'r prosiect.

Ni fyddwn yn rhannu’r manylion cyswllt hyn ag unrhyw un ac eithrio partneriaid gweithredol ar y prosiect a Llywodraeth y DU fel cyllidwyr. Gellir rhannu adborth dienw gyda phartneriaid dethol a thrydydd parti i wella darpariaeth y prosiect.

Bydd unrhyw wybodaeth y byddwch yn ei rhannu â ni yn cael ei storio’n ddiogel yn unol â pholisi GDPR Canolfan Cydweithredol Cymru. (https://cymru.coop/hysbysiad-preifatrwydd-i-gleientiaid-hyfforddeion-gwirfoddolwyr-mynychwyr-digwyddiadau/)

Mae gennych yr hawl i dynnu eich caniatâd yn ôl i ni ddefnyddio eich data ar unrhyw adeg a gofyn i ni ddileu eich data. Os oes gennych unrhyw gwestiynau, cysylltwch â: commercialteam@wales.coop

Rhagor o wybodaeth

I gael rhagor o wybodaeth am y prosiect, cysylltwch â thîm y ganolfan ar ann@ouraberdare.com a 07961 277987.

Mae’r prosiect hwn yn cael ei ariannu gan Lywodraeth y DU trwy Gronfa Adfywio Cymunedol y DU.