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.

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Charlie's social enterprise The Blair Academy boosts the health and happiness of older people through Hip Hop Dance workshops. It was founded on Charlie's own experiences as as a professional dancer, homeless teenager, and home care provider. Her varied experiences mean she is best placed to bring something fresh to the care industry which blows stereotypical, dated, assumptive approaches out of the water. She is not afraid to disrupt industries, to reach those hardest to reach and revolutionise the approach to keeping older people active. In 6 years, Charlie has grown the team from just her, to 16 members who deliver sessions to over 300 older people each week. At present, she also manages a place based giving scheme for community groups in Waltham Forest and works as a community dance artist at Sadlers Wells Theatre.

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Amy is a community activist and founded, along with comrades, York Anti Racist Collective that focuses on healing trauma through building community, engaging in creative practice and cultivating joy. She works with the wonderful Baobab Foundation, a radical decolonial funder who resources Black and Global majority communities. Amy also founded The Teapot Collective along with her life partner and they work with organisations to support them with embedding trauma-informed and decolonial practices, as well as introducing equity and inclusion more broadly. Along with her wonderful colleagues she runs online groups for mixed people (Mixed Up Healing). She also co-runs an online yoga studio: Teapot Yoga, and teaches classes in person in York. Teapot Yoga helps the dreamers and doers of liberation to maintain hope by being in community using the ancient magic of yoga. She is starting up a solidarity space for activists to come together and root themselves, connect and prevent burnout.

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Social Entrepreneur Support Manager at UnLtd

Amanda is a Social Entrepreneur Support Manager and has been part of the Thematic team at UnLtd since May 2021. Prior to this she was co-CEO of a youth leadership charity in south London. She has over 15 years' experience in the creative, education and charity sectors working in start-ups and on growth projects in the UK and abroad. An avid reader, Amanda is interested in the power of storytelling to build support and sustainability of ventures. She also likes data, dogs and all things nature based – not necessarily in that order.