Start-Up Tools #1 – Building Community Around Your Idea

Building a supportive community, team and network around your start-up idea is key to its success. It involves developing clarity of vision & values that give people a reason to get involved and devising ways to engage with your stakeholders, partners and potential customers. Inquiring into why you or your group want to be doing this in the first place and what each individual can gain or learn from being involved is also an important foundation for building community.

You will leave with a practical plan on how you can build a strong, supportive community around your start-up idea.

The workshop is for people who would like to work with others to realise a community-focused business start-up/project or realise initiatives within existing organisations. It will also provide useful tools and approaches for group leaders and facilitators who want to work with teams to set up community enterprises or projects, or who want to explore replicating edventure in their town.

About This Series of Workshops & Edventure Frome – A School for Community Enterprise

This content of this workshop is part of Edventure’s curriculum in community entrepreneurship, a collection of tools & competencies for working with others to create enterprises that benefit the wider community and tackle local social or environmental issues.

The curriculum has been applied to groups creating initiatives such as  SHARE – A Library of Things and the Community Fridge both the first of their kind in the UK. Individual students have also gone on to set up initiatives such as Tiger Mylk, the Chester Food Assembly and the Pitney Farm Cafe & Shop, or to work with social employers such as the Mendip Health Connectors or the Bristol Adventure Playground.

Facilitator: Johannes Moeller

Johannes is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Edventure Frome – A School for Community Enterprise. He will draw on his experience of starting-up community initiatives in Frome designed to contribute to a strong community, grow meaningful livelihoods and build a sustainable, zero-carbon economy that works for all. These include Edventure, The Welsh Mill Hub, SHARE – A Library of Things, Community Fridge: Frome, Remakery: Frome, Frome Wardrobe Collective…Johannes is also a qualified social enterprise advisor and has worked with numerous groups and individuals on community-focused start-ups.

Contributors: TBC

What to Bring

Please bring a pen & paper, a packed lunch.

Ticket Price:

This event is FREE to residents of the county of Somerset all ages. Our funding does not cover BANES, Bath and Bristol. For a full list of towns/postcodes that are eligible please click here. Booking is essential. We will ask you to complete some paperwork and feedback forms. If you have any questions at all, or if you do not live in the county of Somerset, please feel free to call us on 07548 014066 (9am-1pm Mon – Fri) or email info@edventurefrome.org

This course is possible thanks to funding from Somerset Skills and Learning.

Feedback from past Edventure Short Courses:

“…It was run brilliantly and really well attended. As always there was a great mix of people of all ages, backgrounds and reasons for being there. The courses are always well-run, really interesting and accessible. I’m always amazed by the quality and experience of the teachers. I’m doing three courses at the moment – all brilliant”.

Anna

“Just spent 2 days learning what they do, why they do it and how they are inspiring other communities to take up the challenge too. Such fantastic course design, people skills and imagination! Engaging young adults, helping inspire entrepreneurship, building community! What’s not to love?!”

Ella

“Really inspiring, reinforcing and positive. Great presentation with pace and focus and enough humour to entertain too. Still thinking about it all and will keep doing so for a long time. Thanks for a lovely and helpful course!”

Zainab

“Really interesting and rewarding morning. Will be looking out for other courses and the Hub space is amazing”.

Jane

“A breath of fresh air. The facilitator was knowledgeable, enthusiastic and action orientated but with plenty of interest in the needs and expectations of the group. A very motivating and worthwhile few hours!”

Peter

“Loved it…gave me so much clarity on how to be more strategic! ”

Milda

“A truly supportive, inspiring & creative environment..!”

Frances

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