Social Entrepreneur Support Manager at UnLtd

Kyla has been working as a Social Entrepreneur Support Manager at UnLtd since 2021. She is based in the North West and is part of the Thematic team who specialise in supporting social entrepreneurs nationally who work in Healthy Ageing, Health Equity and Access to Employment. Prior to UnLtd, she spent ten years leading business development, operations and programme and project management and delivery for start-up and scale-up social enterprises and charities, primarily in the health and wellbeing space. She is motivated by seeing social entrepreneurs create and disrupt systems and services that address health and wealth inequalities; and so far has had the pleasure of working with over 60 UnLtd Award Winners doing just that! She also cares deeply about the intersections of social and climate justice, having recently completed a course in sustainable business management; leads our carbon footprint work at UnLtd and volunteers on a food security project close to home in Liverpool.

Social Entrepreneur

Shamala is an award winning entrepreneur; passionate about community, health and wellbeing. She is a qualified children’s social worker, personal trainer, nutritionist, wellbeing author and the funder of Impact 4Life Wellbeing; which is a Birmingham based Community Interest Company. Her work takes me across the length and breadth of the country providing wellbeing intervention and support, engaging with wide a range of community and corporate clients. Impact 4Life is a multi award winning fitness and lifestyle organisation. They offer inclusive and accessible wellbeing activities and programmes for women, men, families and children of all ages and abilities. With an emphasis on cultural sensitivity, diversity and having an acute awareness of the barriers faced by vulnerable people and marginalised groups, Impact 4Life strives to reduce health inequalities.

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Mazhar has a background in finance having worked for the BBC in London, HBOS and both Jewsons and Magnet. In the last ten years he has developed a number of social enterprises working primarily with older people around issues dealing with isolation, loneliness and dementia. He is a Trustee at the Thornton and Allerton community association who run the South Square Arts Centre. He is also part of a team who have recently raised £650,000 in order to purchase and renovate the birthplace of the Brontë sisters in Thornton, Bradford. This project will bring the Brontë birthplace into public ownership for the first time in its two hundred year history, They plan to open a cafe which will become a hub of arts and creativity for visitors from the community and beyond. And those who love the Brontë sisters will have the unique opportunity to actually stay in one of the sisters bedrooms and literally walk in the footsteps of greatness.

Social Entrepreneur Support Manager at UnLtd

Tim is a Social Entrepreneur Support Manager at UnLtd. He works as part of our Thematic team and specialises in investment readiness, health, and sporting sectors. During his time at UnLtd since 2017, he has helped to manage the Transform Ageing programme and has supported many social entrepreneurs within the sector to grow and scale their impact. He is really interested in how social entrepreneurs can work to address health inequalities and deliver preventative practices that improve quality of life and reduce pressure on public resources. Before UnLtd he worked for Brunelcare, a care charity and housing association for people in later life in Bristol, which is where he first became interested in the ageing sector. Prior to this he went to Exeter University and during his time there founded two (largely unsuccessful) social enterprises through Exeter’s Enactus programme.

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