Social Entrepreneur Support Manager at UnLtd

Jo’s career started in social housing, supporting individuals and communities to realise their potential. This included helping to establish several community businesses and supporting those running them to develop sustainable and long-lasting employment and training opportunities. Before joining UnLtd she worked as a self-employed business trainer helping small to medium size businesses, public services and third sector organisations improve their systems, develop clear vision and strategy and ultimately improve the customer journey. Jo is a voluntary Director for a small CIC and is passionate about helping individuals and groups in the community develop creative and impactful ideas that will benefit the wider locality. Jo joined UnLtd in 2022 as a Support Manager and now works in the Thematic team. She recognises the value created by having the right expertise and support for new and existing entrepreneurs. Jo really enjoys meeting with social entrepreneurs, understanding what their venture does and the social impact it is having in the community. Jo enjoys walking with her schnoodle (that’s dog!) travelling, gardening and cooking.

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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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Eric is a young entrepreneur from Oldham. He founded SW Clothing at the age of 13, using savings from his paper round. His business garnered media attention, featuring in BBC News, Channel 4, and the Manchester Evening News. Eric now leads a few different ventures including the Business Incubator Group (BIG), an incubator program supporting young entrepreneurs and disadvantaged youth in establishing their businesses and developing personal skills.

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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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