Shifting London Pre-Festival Sessions
Over the summer we are running a series of pre-festival workshops so you can explore your ideas for sparking change and creating opportunities for growth within your communities.
Each 1.5 hour long online workshop is a stand-alone session based upon learning and support helpful in the early stages of developing your business idea. These will feed into the workshops on offer at our September festival.
Please note that each sign-up link will take you to the same form where you can sign up to as many sessions as you like. You can also use this form to the Shifting London Festival taking place on the Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 September.
Tuesday 22 August 5pm – 6.30pm Where do you start when starting up?
Who’s it for? Anyone in the early stages of setting up a social or environmental impact project, social enterprise or charity.
What it’s about? An introduction into the world of social enterprise in London, discussing community-led challenges and establishing a foundation for starting a social enterprise that tackles a need.
Thursday 24 August 11.30am – 1pm Using your equity expertise to diversify your income generation
Tuesday 5 September 12pm – 1.30pm Bringing your ideas to life
Who’s it for? Anyone in the early stages of setting up a social or environmental impact project, social enterprise or charity
What it’s about? What is your idea? How do you connect your idea to the needs of your audience? What is the problem you are trying to solve? This session will help you explore these questions and help you go about answering them.
Wednesday 6 September 5pm – 6.30pm Becoming a social leader. Using your skills for good
Who’s it for? Anyone in the early stages of setting up a social or environmental impact project, social enterprise or charity
What it’s about? What are the qualities of an entrepreneur? What drives you? What are your passions? We can’t be great at everything, come and join the discussion about how to use your skills to benefit a wider audience and what you can improve on.
Tuesday 12 September 9.30am – 11am Creating businesses for a greener future
Who’s it for? Anyone in the early stages of setting up a social or environmental impact project, social enterprise or charity
What it’s about? How can you integrate sustainability into the heart of your idea? What are the environmental challenges within London you can help solve? Your business idea could have a climate focus and there are many operational elements that you can consider.
Thursday 14 September 12pm – 1.30pm Funding your idea
Who’s it for? Anyone in the early stages of setting up a social or environmental impact project, social enterprise or charity
What it’s about? Building confidence around understanding your potential costs and looking at the different streams of income that could benefit your cause.
Sign up for Pre-festival Sessions
We have also partnered with Inclusion London to bring you an additional session aimed at established organisations already working within the equity focused space.
Thursday 24 August 11.30am – 1pm Using your equity expertise to diversify your income generation
(supported by Inclusion London)
Who’s it for? Established organisations working within the equity focused space such as disabled and deaf organisations (DPOS) LGBTQIA+ groups and organisations which support black and minoritised communities.
What it’s about? Find out how income generation can fit with your current organizational status and funding approaches, including setting up a trading arm if you are a registered charity. Hear from equity organisations about what worked for them.
Access: The session will be an online event. It will be captioned and British Sign Language interpreters will be available. If you have any specific access needs, please provide details on the registration form.