About this Event
About This Workshop
Have you ever felt that your mission sounds generic, or struggled to express why your organisation exists in a way that truly adds value?
Do you find it hard to get others on board with what you’re doing or understand what you’re really about?
This isn’t just another reflective session - it’s an engaging, interactive session to help you:
- Uncover the core social purpose that drives your work
- Test and refine how you talk about your purpose
- Use your purpose to overcome barriers to finding trade-based income streams
- Get live feedback from mission-driven peers
- Leave with an action plan to embed the purpose into everything you do
You’ll Walk Away With:
- A sharper, more compelling social purpose
- Clear actions to trigger internal communication for greater alignment (team / board / volunteers) around your core mission
- Confidence to answer “Why do you exist?” in a way that resonates
- A capacity boost to ensure your social purpose is fit for increasing your trading potential
- Realigned social purpose towards greater trading for social good
- Certainty to evaluate trading and funding decisions in the light of your re-aligned purpose
Who It’s For:
You are a Stockport based and/ or active social entrepreneur, enterprising charity leader, or a mission-driven organisation that wants to:
- Clarify your social purpose (or refresh it)
- Build stronger internal alignment
- Become more attractive to commissioners, partners and funders
- Overcome barriers to increasing trading potential
- Build partner and peer support locally to share ideas and learning with
What We’ll Cover:
- Welcome
- Purpose realignment and clarity exercises
- Explore and understand relevant contexts and concepts to increase trading potential
- Examine and challenge your barriers to increased trading for social good
- Peer & expert feedback & critique
- Action plan & next steps mapping
What To Bring:
- A rough draft / idea of your current mission or purpose (if you have one)
- Notebook or laptop
- Openness to share, explore & test (NB: this workshop will recognise the need for a level of business confidentiality)
Investment / Price:
£5 plus Eventbrite Fees
Accessibility & Notes:
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment. Please let us know if you need support with access, mobility, or other accommodations.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Merseyway Innovation Centre - Offices & Coworking Space, 21-23 Merseyway, Stockport, United Kingdom
GBP 6.13
