ImpactU - Social Ventures 101

Workshop Overview
Embark on your journey into the world of social entrepreneurship with Social Ventures 101. This foundational workshop introduces participants to the key elements of creating ventures with a purpose. 

Learn what makes a social venture unique, explore diverse business models, funding sources, and legal structures, and understand the importance of impact measurement. By the end, you’ll gain the knowledge to identify, launch, and manage your own social venture, equipped to make a meaningful difference. 

Perfect for aspiring social entrepreneurs and for those who want to learn more about social ventures, this session will provide you with the tools to build a venture that combines purpose with impact!

Workshop Content

• Understand what a social venture is, and how it might differ from traditional ventures.
• Understand that there are a wide range of business models, funding options, and legal structures   available to social ventures, and what some of these can look like.
• Understand what kind of impact can be made and how to measure and grow it.

Who is this course for

• Students, academics and professional services staff with an interest in starting or supporting social ventures.

What you’ll get out of this course

• Output 1: Be able to identify different types of social ventures.
• Output 2:  Ability to identify what business models, funding options and legal structures different ventures have.
• Output 3:  Understand why impact measurement is important and start to understand how to do it. 

Your Facilitators
Liv is a design researcher and facilitator with over 12 years’ experience leading participatory research and social impact projects. She specialises in bringing together diverse stakeholders to solve complex, systemic challenges. Her work is rooted in an inclusive, trauma-informed approach, with a deep focus on understanding and shifting power dynamics. She has worked with charities, social enterprises, funders, and government, and has expertise across mental health, accessibility, digital access, regenerative futures, and organisational change. Her past clients include the V&A, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Samaritans, Scope, Scouts, NHSX and the National Citizen Service. Liv holds an MEng in Product Design Engineering from the University of Glasgow.

Maya is an experiential facilitator, coach and educator, with over 15 years of experience in the non-profit, social impact and education sectors. She draws on participatory and experiential learning design to create and facilitate spaces for learning and collaboration. These have included designing and delivering online and in-person programmes such as ThoughtBox’s Educator and Leadership programmes, and leading the London IDG Hub.

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