Starting date: 23 September

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If you're an ambitious social leader looking to establish a long-lasting impact, this course is for you. Over five weeks, our scaling experts will help you build up skills to identify the right pathway to achieve the change you want to make in the world and develop a robust and financially sustainable plan for success.

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Help more people, better

Increase your impact by reaching more people in new places.

Achieve financial sustainability

Establish who will deliver and pay for your solution at scale.

Identify your ideal pathway to scale

Discover the ideal route(s) for you to build a solid scaling strategy.

Learn from like-minded social leaders

Access a network of peers pursuing scale.

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Course details

Dates

The course starts on 23 September and will take place over 5 weeks.

Commitment

4-5 hours each week is recommended.

Price

The cost varies depending on your organisation’s revenue, ranging from £200 – £500 + VAT per place. More info below.

Location

The course will take place online, including 3 live sessions via Zoom.

The alumni experience

Learn from the experience of our previous participants.

Kick-start your journey to scale

What you'll leave with

  • The knowledge and understanding of what you need to have in place to scale.
  • The skills and tools needed to test and validate your scalability in the real world.
  • A tangible strategy and vision for scaling sustainably.
  • A hypothesis for the pathway that will lead your organisation to sustaining impact at scale.
  • An actionable plan to get your organisation ready to implement your scale strategy.
  • A compelling pitch to build buy-in and secure investment for your scale plans.

Who it's for

Whether you’re the leader of a nonprofit, a social entrepreneur or someone working on programmes that you’d like to see scale to meet the size of the societal problem, this programme is for you. All you need to join is:

  • Be keen to build the skills and confidence to kick-start your organisation’s journey to scale
  • Be able to dedicate the capacity to engage with the programme, approx. 4-5 hours each week over 5 weeks.

How you'll learn

Learning Kit

You’ll access a Learning Kit including videos, case studies, frameworks and other resources to maximise your knowledge.

Learn by Doing

Each week you’ll be given a task to help you immediately apply your learnings into practice.

Peer Support

During 3x Zoom live sessions, you will discuss, challenge and deepen your understanding alongside your peers.

An excellent guide to assessing if your organisation is ready to scale, with strong facilitators and a very valuable toolkit to guide an organisational strategy process.

Susan Bornstein, Global Director World Bicycle Relief

Kick-start your journey to scale

Course Syllabus

Your learning journey on the Getting Scale Ready course will be accompanied by the chance to join 3 live online sessions. If you can’t make the live sessions, they’re available as recordings.

Live Session Schedule
  • Live session 1: Introduction and Scale Readiness, Tuesday 1st October 2-4 pm (UK Time)
  • Live session 2: Strategy for Scale, Tuesday 15th October 2-4 pm (UK Time)
  • Live session 3: Pitching and Next Steps, Tuesday 29th October 2-4 pm (UK Time)
Course Curriculum
Week 0: 16th September – Welcome to Getting Scale Ready
  • Introduction to the Programme
  • Live Sessions Schedule
  • Baseline Survey
  • Extra Resources
Week 1: 23rd September – Assess Scale Readiness
  •  Introduction to week 1 – Assess your starting point
  •  The difference between growth and scale – Reaching further with your resources
  •  Tackling societal problems at scale – Implications for what sustainable impact looks like for you
  •  Finding the sweet spot for scale – Ensuring solutions are both impactful, valuable and sustainable
  • ASSIGNMENT: Scale Readiness Diagnostic Quiz
  • REFLECTION: Preparation for live session
Week 2: 30th September – Develop Scale Strategy
  • Introduction to week 2 – The scale strategy that will guide your journey
  • Components of a scale strategy – Key questions to answer when building your strategy
  • Importance of a Scale Strategy- A noble mission is not enough to have impact at scale
  • TOOL: Problem Definition – Define the societal problem you want to address at scale
  • TOOL: Intended Impact – Clarify the change you want to achieve
  • TOOL: Doer and Payer at Scale – Establish who will deliver and pay your solution at scale
  • ASSIGNMENT: Start Strategy Formula
  • Extra resources- Going deeper
Week 3: 7th October – Explore Pathways to Scale
  • Introduction to Week 3: Explore Pathways to Scale
  • Scale Pathways- Key considerations and trade-offs for choosing your pathway to scale
  • TOOL: Choosing a Scale Pathway
  • TOOL: Design Your Core
  • ASSIGNMENT: Complete Strategy Formula
  • REFLECTION: Preparation for Live Session
  • Extra resources- Going deeper
Week 4: 14th October – Test to Validate
  • Introduction to Week 4 – Redefining risk
  • Components of a Good Test – Key considerations to build effective tests and feedback loops
  • TOOL: Identify Risky Assumptions
  • ASSIGNMENT: Test risky assumptions
Week 5: 21st October – Plan and Pitch
  • Introduction to Week 5 – Create a compelling pitch and effective action plan
  • TOOL: Create an action plan
  • TOOL: Develop your pitch
  • ASSIGNMENT: Develop your pitch
  • A final word – Key Scaling Mindsets
  • Extra resources – Going deeper

Pricing Guide

The course cost varies depending on your organisation’s annual revenue.

 

  • £200: for organisations with a revenue of less than £400,000

  • £350: for organisations with a revenue over £400,000

  • £500: for organisations with a revenue over 1 million

 

*VAT is not included in the prices shown above.

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Age UK Cheshire provides care and support services to elderly people including physical and mental health and be an active member of their community. This in turn empowers them to love later life. We worked with Age UK Cheshire to explore how their Men in Sheds programme could be scaled up.

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Through the Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg Project, Alexandra Rose Charity gives families the spending power to eat good food. They work directly with children’s centres and community organisations supporting families in need, alongside market traders, to provide weekly Rose Vouchers, which can be spent on fruit and veg at local markets.
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A Band of Brothers is a nonprofit established by men committed to positive social change through personal development and community building. A Band of Brothers was a participant in our first UK Scale Accelerator  programme.

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Bikeworks is a London based non-profit social enterprise that uses cycling as a tool to tackle social and environmental challenges in the community. It aims to build a diverse cycling community, initiate capability of mechanical skills and supports businesses to be greener.

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CoachBright is a social mobility charity on a mission to support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in becoming confident, independent, and resilient so they can lead the lives they want.

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Since 2006, Commonweal has enabled experts and partner organisations to trial and test new ideas, approaches, and models designed to improve the lives of vulnerable or marginalised groups through property-based pilot projects.
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Core Arts is a not-for-profit Social Business. They promote positive mental health and well-being through creative learning.

We are running a full timetable of COVID-secure in-person creative courses at our centre and online Zoom courses, ideal for those who are self-isolating or prefer distance learning. 

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At EQUIP, they envision empowering all teams involved in primary care to make improvements on an ongoing basis, which would have a tangible impact on staff joy and user experience.

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Franklin Scholars was founded in 2013 with the goal of using peer mentoring to help students in the transition into secondary school. In the ten years since, they have now worked in over 80 secondary schools across nine regions of England, providing in-school literacy or numeracy-focused peer-mentoring programmes, using our social and emotional skills development framework. This programme has now reached over 4,000 young people.
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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit is a voluntary organisation supporting people subject to immigration control for over 25 years. They offer free legal immigration advice, representation and support services to people seeking asylum, refugees, children and vulnerable adults.
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Groundswell is a nonprofit which works to tackle homelessness by working with homeless people and enable othem to take more control of their lives, have a greater influence on services, and therefore set a chain reaction of togetherness and opportunity. We worked with Groundswell to scale the impact of their Homeless Health Peer Advocacy Programme that partners former homeless with current homeless, to ensure health appointments are met.

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KeyRing is a charity that provides social care support in England and Wales. Since 1990 our support has started with the simple question ‘what do you want from life?’ They connect people and inspire them to build the life they want.
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Leonard Cheshire Disability is a nonprofit supporting disabled people in the UK and around the world to remain active members of society, fulfil their potential and establish their independence.  We specifically helped Leonard Cheshire to scale their CAN DO project: a volunteer programme for 16-35-year-olds across the UK.

 
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Mayday Trust transformed itself from a traditional charity providing supported accommodation services, to a nationally-recognised voice for radical systems change. When Mayday heard from people that traditional services were failing to help and they were becoming trapped in broken systems, Mayday set about to transform the services it offered.
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My Sisters Place are a Domestic Abuse Support Service and we provide support to those who have or who are experiencing domestic abuse. The service offers both practical, holistic and therapeutic support in regards to domestic abuse. Referrals to the service are accepted from a range of external agencies and self-referrals direct from the client. We are a needs led service using a trauma-informed approach.
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RECLAIM is a social change organisation that challenges the homogeneity that exists in the leadership profiles across UK society and supports youths and the working class people.

 
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Safer Places is a nonprofit which provides a comprehensive range of services to adults and children affected by domestic and sexual abuse, not only offering safe accommodation (West Essex, Mid Essex, Hertfordshire and Southend) but helping victims to overcome these experiences and build a better future for themselves.

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Spark Inside uses coaching to unlock individuals' potential and drive culture change in the criminal justice system so that rehabilitation is possible.
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Staying Put is a UK nonprofit which offers a range of services to victims and survivors of domestic abuse and aims to empower them to safely remain in their own home and community.

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Street Doctors is a UK nonprofit who change the lives of high risk young people by giving them the skills they need to deliver life-saving first aid. Through the programme Street Doctors aim to increase the confidence and aspirations of youths, give them a sense of responsibility for their actions and help them to change their attitudes towards violence.

We facilitated an initial workshop with Street Doctors to consider their replication potential and are now providing ongoing support and advice to Street Doctors as they develop a replication model for international expansion.

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Streetwise Opera enables people who’ve experienced homelessness to find inspiration and empowerment while rebuilding their lives and identities.
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TLC: Talk, Listen, Change is a relationship charity that has supported people in North England for over 40 years.

They aim to ensure that everyone within our community benefits from good emotional well-being, and the key to this is maintaining safe, healthy, and happy relationships.

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The Reader is an award winning UK social enterprise working to connecting people with great literature through shared reading. Furthermore, it pioneers the use of shared reading to improve well-being, reduce social isolation and build resilience across diverse communities.

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Tide works to expand the UK-wide network of carers and dementia professionals and raise awareness of the needs of unpaid carers of people with dementia. 

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Vi-ability, based in North Wales, is a social enterprise working with young adults to transform struggling community sports clubs into viable, thriving businesses and hubs, using this as a catalyst for entrepreneurship and engaging youths into local communities. It provides opportunities to develop skills by offering training, work experience and qualifications in commercial sports management.

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At WEvolution, they nurture collectives called Small, Powerful Groups: meaningful, resourceful and accountable communities where everyone can be a change-maker and an entrepreneur.
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Action West London is a social enterprise that runs Acton Street Market, which brings diverse communities together by creating entrepreneurial opportunities and an inclusive, high profile public space.
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Urban Uprising is a Scotland-based charity using rock-climbing to improve the wellbeing of at-risk 8 to 18 year olds in the UK who are disadvantaged by poverty, health and other inequalities.
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Settle is a London charity that supports vulnerable young people moving into their first home, as part of a mission to break the cycle of youth homelessness
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PeacePlayers International is a cross-community charity that uses basketball to unite, educate and inspire young people in Northern Ireland, as a means to promote peace and reconciliation
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Social Bite is a social enterprise running an employment support programme for vulnerable and marginalised people experiencing homelessness across Scotland
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Humber All Nations Alliance is a charity promoting the  well-being of Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and migrant communities throughout Hull and the Humber.
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