Social Entrepreneur Support Manager at UnLtd

Alex is a Social Entrepreneur Support Manager based in the West Midlands, working across the North of England. She has worked at UnLtd since 2015 and previously worked in Local Authorities and Housing Associations supporting community regeneration initiatives and even working in partnership with UnLtd to find, fund and support early stage social entrepreneurs. She is passionate about working with people in communities that have great potential but don’t realise that they are Social Entrepreneurs yet; and exploring how we can all contribute to creating systemic change to provide more equitable opportunities for all.

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Lisa is the founder and Managing Director of arts education company Changing Relations and has 25 years’ experience in designing engaging learning opportunities for young people and professionals. For the last decade, she has worked to develop impactful resources and courses as part of Changing Relations' mission to challenge thinking around gender stereotypes and relationship behaviours. This has involved writing projects, developing partnerships, winning funding, managing creative practitioners, networking extensively, weathering a challenging economic climate, the COVID pandemic and the subsequent tightening funding landscape in the culture and VCSE sectors, evaluating, reflecting, learning and supporting a range of students and recent graduates navigate the creative sector!

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While Clayton excelled and carved out a decent career for himself, he saw his friends not doing so well and getting into trouble with the law; making it even harder for them to get good jobs. Desperate to do something about the issue, he founded Street2Boardroom. Clayton is able to operate in the business world whilst also connecting with people on the streets. Street2Boardroom was born in 2016, when founder, Clayton Planter recognised that the current system repeatedly rejected certain types of people; preventing them from reaching their full potential, from finding positive role models that they could genuinely relate to and ultimately re-joining society.

Social Entrepreneur Support Manager at UnLtd

Ashley is a Social Entrepreneur Support Manager at UnLtd working across England. He works on the frontline supporting social entrepreneurs, finding social entrepreneurs and helping them with funding and support to create great social impact. Over the last few years at UnLtd he has increasingly worked with social entrepreneurs who are repurposing built environment and outdoor spaces to better serve their communities and work towards a greener economy. Prior to UnLtd Ashley worked within a range of regional social enterprises in the North of England providing business support and incubation services. He also spent some time working in the areas of young people’s accommodation and support and family outreach support services. After collaborating with UnLtd to run a small Award programme in previous role and enjoying the experience and values led approach, he was lucky enough to join the staff team as an Award Manager back in 2014.