At the end of each Social Innovation Camp, we run a Show and Tell where everyone pitches what they’ve built in the weekend.
We’ll be awarding some prizes to the ideas we think have shown most promise. And this time around, we’re lucky enough to be supported by our partners Firstport, UnLtd, IfLooksCouldKill, O Street and Unboxed Consulting.
And here’s what they’re giving away:
Who they are
Firstport supports new and emerging social entrepreneurs across Scotland. They provide free business support, advice and start-up awards and work to identify, advise, connect, encourage and seed-fund new start social entrepreneurs. Their awards programme is run in partnership with Scotland UnLtd.
What they’re giving away
A Level 1 award of up to £5,000 is being made available for a Scottish based winner at the Social Innovation Camp weekend. After the weekend, Firstport will be working with our winners to provide advice and support to answer the all-important question: ‘What next?’ and looking at how to work with the award winner to maximise the opportunities and ideas they wish to take forwards.
Firstport’s work is entirely based in Scotland, but never fear, if you’re based in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and you’re our winner, you’ll be up for an UnLtd award instead:
Who they are
UnLtd supports social entrepreneurs - people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. They do this by providing a complete package of funding and support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality. It’s people who are important to UnLtd; which is why they only offer support to individuals, not organisations. The awards are funded by the income from a legacy of £100 million granted by the Millennium Commission. This legacy is carefully invested so that the income can be obtained for awards for the future.
They know that there are thousands of people who have the ideas and the vision to make a real difference. They also know that many of them need encouragement and support, contact with others just like them, and access to training to help them grow and give their projects the best chance of success.
What they’re giving away
As well as a cash award of up to £5,000, UnLtd will be offering the winner of Social Innovation Camp, if they’re based in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, a programme of support designed to help make new ideas become real projects. The Award Winner will receive a complete package of support including coaching and mentoring opportunities, training and networking events, access to pro bono contacts and UnLtdWorld an online networking platform for social entrepreneurs.
Who they are
IfLooksCouldKill are a team of forward thinking web designers and developers. Working together from idea conception through to launch, they’re passionate about interface design, usability, simplicity and beautiful code. The team of five, headed up by Colin Hewitt bring together a unique balance of quirky design and innovative coding.
What they’re giving away
ILCK will be offering three days of interface design time looking at design, layout and usability of a site or application to either the Social Innovation Camp runner-up or winner.
Who they are
O Street is a concept led design agency based in Glasgow and London (in that order). Though sleek and nimble in size, their international experience and impressive client list - including BAFTA, Edinburgh International Film Festival and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP - has helped them become one of Scotland’s most exciting creative agencies. Their work includes various mediums including print, online, exhibition, animation and ceramic bathroom tiles, but they tell us their true passion is for Ping Pong….
What they’re giving away
O Street are offering either the winning or runner-up Social Innovation Camp idea a tailored half-day branding workshop; helping ideas figure out their brand, audience and competition.
Who they are
Unboxed Consulting specialises in agile software analysis and development, web 2.0 development and project management. They collaborate with clients in both business to consumer and business to business environments.
What they’re giving away
Unboxed Consulting are offering the winner of Social Innovation Camp Scotland a full-day workshop to plan their next steps and five days of development time. The runner up will get a half-day workshop to plan their project and three days of development time. Unboxed Consulting are based in London, but if the Social Innovation Camp winner is from Scotland, support can be provided remotely.
