tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38497120678546922752024-02-18T19:46:15.724-08:00Best Foot ForwardKazuri Homeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241568019562724926noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849712067854692275.post-26134444147739616012014-01-19T01:29:00.001-08:002014-01-19T01:29:20.157-08:00New Year! New Social Enterprise!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Are you a young person between 16 and 25 years old?<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Farah Damji</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Director of Kazuri and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ben
Ramsden</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>founder of Pants to Poverty
have teamed up to launch Best Foot Forward, a new social enterprise created to
empower vulnerable young adults to create<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>their best futures. We are looking for a group of motivated under 25s to
participate in our challenging but fun, educational and financially rewarding
programme. All will gain the opportunity to build a sustainable business which
Farah and Ben are helping to kickstart. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
starts with an eco friendly shoe shine, but it is so much more...</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Featuring exclusive ethical products, this is a
step-by-step guide to setting up a social enterprise. Workshops take
participants on the journey of making a profit whilst helping people and the
planet.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>What will
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The practical experience of running their own
social enterprise, working as a team, conducting market research, identifying
their target audience advertising, pricing, customer service, cash flow
monitoring and planning ahead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Increased
confidence</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A week's
enterprise training with MyBnk and an enterprise in a box</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Experience
of being in a workplace</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">An
understanding of delivering a service rather than constantly receiving and
being beneficiaries</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Paid to
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Access to
places they may never normally go, because they don't think they are
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Team
building skills</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Humility </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Increased
capacity in existing skills and being service oriented and customer facing</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Building
small but credible pathways back into mainstream society by being seen as
connectors</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Selling
their enterprise to the recipients of the shoe shine (seedbombs, chocolates and
lip balms and soaps very sweet).</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The training runs over 2 consecutive
Fridays , 24<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and 31st January
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from 16:30 to 18:30 hrs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Wednesday 29<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> and Thursday 30<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>January 2014 the attendees will gain practical
experience <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shoe shining with our eco-friendly shoe polish
at parliament, major city and investment banks and possibly, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a royal palace<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">From
January we will have a selection of products from social enterprises in our
boxes . Each team will be given a box with one of these products in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more info please contact Rachel or Claire
on <b>07936 543169</b></span></div>
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Kazuri Homeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241568019562724926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849712067854692275.post-82776690386288831392013-12-05T07:19:00.001-08:002013-12-05T07:19:41.125-08:00Best Foot Forward!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt;">So Tuesday night,
off we trot with some friends to Anton Chernikov's fantastic event "How to
be a social entrepreneur," organised by the very brilliant Michael Norton
you know, Buzzbnk, CIVA all that good stuff. Michael has an idea based on the
talents in the Bible: he gives us £20. We have to repay £30 having made a profit in a social
enterprise in 6 weeks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt;">We have to team up
with people we don't know in real life. Way outside my comfort zone, then. I
"win" Ben Ramsden the genius behind ethical underwearness company
Pants to Poverty, the original pantrepreneur who says "we're Facebook
friends. That doesn't count." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Our *brilliant* idea
is BFF or Best Foot Forward. With Michael's generous start up cash (repayable,
Ts and Cs apply but we've signed up, anyway,) we're going to buy £20 of secret
ingredients to make an entirely organic and eco friendly shoe cleaner. We want
to shine your shoes. You know how *great* you feel when you step out in a new
pair of shoes? That's the feeling we want to recreate for you, and in the
process we want to rebuild fragmented social bonds and get excluded people
involved, too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> Vulnerable women we work with, homeless women,
young kids outside of mainstream education, those who have been excluded from
society, will get paid to shine your shoes before that Christmas party, the all
important board meeting, a really hot date so you can put your Best Foot
Forward. They also get to work on a week long enterprise project with MyBnk and sell their social enterprise in a
box, to start their own enterprise empires. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">○ Increased confidence<br />
○ A week's enterprise training with MyBnk and an enterprise in a box<br />
○ Experience of being in a workplace<br />
○ An understanding of delivering a service rather than constantly receiving and
being beneficiaries <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">○ Paid to do this<br />
○ Access to places they may never normally go, because they don't think they
are "allowed"<br />
○ Team building skills<br />
○Humility (me too)<br />
○Increased capacity in existing skills and being service oriented and
customer facing<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">○ building small but
credible pathways back into mainstream society by being seen as connectors<br />
○Selling their enterprise to the recipients of the shoe shine (a seed bomb,
very sweet, compacted seeds you throw to plant surprise trees and wildflowers
in an urban environment).<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It's by
donation (minimum £5 per shoe shine) and we're looking for a minimum of 10
pairs of shoes to buff up in a location so if you and your colleagues fancy a
special treat to put a spring in your step, Facebook us, call us, Tweet at us
and watch this space as this becomes a million shoe march towards empowerment
and shiny shoes!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this is a step-by-step guide to setting up a social enterprise. Workshops take
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<span lang="EN-GB">Participants are introduced to the concept
of social enterprise and explore the stories behind their ethical products.
They split into groups, receive their Enterprise-in-a-Box and create their
business plan. Teams prepare to sell over the coming weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">team, conducting market research, identifying
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