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In order to be a member of Future Business Centre, you need to be able to demonstrate an intention to create positive social or environmental impact through your business venture, therefore please describe your social or environmental mission.

You can also be approved for membership if your business provides support services for social enterprises rather than directly creating positive social or environmental impact. In this instance, you would need to describe how your business can support the members of the FBC community.

Hosting a supportive and vibrant community is at the heart of what the Future Business Centre seeks to do, so it’s important for us to ensure that our members’ values and communities of practice are aligned accordingly.

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Serious Impact, a new programme of skills, advice and guidance for impact entrepreneurs.

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ER…

TAKE THE HESITATION OUT OF YOUR BUSINESS VENTURE.

Serious Impact can help you turn your tentative steps into a steady strut. The clue is in the name – we’re serious about supporting businesses to make an impact as well as a profit. We’ve worked with more entrepreneurs than you’ve had chai lattes so whether you are exploring an early concept or want to grow your organisation from 2 to 200, we can help. Our team will take you from back of beer mat to market and our free bowls of fruit at the Hatchery, well, er…they’ll provide a valuable source of Vitamin C.

 

You’ve got a brilliant idea that you believe will make an impact but don’t know how to turn it into a business. Or you’ve got the business model to create impact and profit but you need help to launch it. Or you’ve already got a company that’s delivering both impact and profit but you’re now looking to scale. Or…

Serious Impact provides a range of free programmes to support and energise entrepreneurs to develop and grow impact businesses. What we do can be accessed through a single day workshop or amplified with an intensive three month long programme of workshops, talks, training and one-on-one mentoring, supported by the state-of-the-art facilities and the tools you need to remove the roadblocks to taking your business supernova.

Serious Impact is made up of five streams:

Workshops

  • 1 day workshops
  • Discover talent/passion/purpose
  • Identify 3 business ideas
  • Create impact
  • Win clients

Startup

  • 60 day part-time programme
  • Identify your clients
  • Understand your competition
  • Build your product
  • Make your first sale

Accelerate

  • 3 months
  • Pre- & post-startup
  • Everything needed to launch
  • Access contacts
  • Understand funding source
  • Killer action plan

Incubate

  • 9 months
  • Free workspace
  • Onsite expert sanity
  • Support to scale
  • Access Innovation Lab

Innovate

  • State-of-the-Art equipment
  • Technical training and support
  • Design, test, manufacture
  • Expert scrutiny
  • From prototype to market

 

 

Contact the Serious Impact team today.