Leading a small but growing purpose-driven business?

In 2025 Social Impact.Support are offering 8 social enterprises access to business mentorship from Colliers Property Consultants participating in an emerging leadership programme. This programme suits social entrepreneurs who are working 4-5 days a week in their business, and have capacity to meet with your two chosen executive mentors every month for at least 1 hour. Mentors will support with sounding board, critical friend, and where applicable specialist support across one or two key areas of the business within commercial and operations and they too are on an emerging leaders course. 

The mentors have a mix in backgrounds from sales and revenue generation, key account and project management and operations / team management. The mentors and mentees are trained and supported throughout the duration of the programme, as well as have access to the Regenerous nature-inspired leadership group.

The support will involve:

• Being matched to two mentors from Colliers Property Consultants who will work as a team and support you on a pre-identified commercial leadership challenge
• Two-day kick off (residential) event 3rd-4th April 2025 in Kent (1 hour from London)
• Pre-call (virtual) to meet your mentors in Mid-March
• Minimum of 8 hours virtual mentoring (between April to November) to develop your commercial strategy, business architecture, B2B sales, operations, leadership
• Up to 3 x 121 coaching and check in calls with Social Impact.Support
• Access to our leadership group, Regenerous that meets up quarterly aligning with the seasons, covering nature-inspired leadership topics that include complexity and adaptability, resilience, capacity, growth mindset and accessing your intuition as an inner mentor.

This is a fully funded programme to cover the support, although there will be an admin and processing fee of £125+vat to participate payable in advance in one payment upon acceptable of offer of a place.

Alongside our partners Baringa, we'll be offering a one-day hackathon later in 2025 to support a handful of social entrepreneurs with a new business venture across product development, marketing and sales.

The support will involve:

• Being matched to a team of 3-4 multidisciplinary consultants and advisors from across the Baringa business, including Media & Tech, Retail, Public Sector & Government, Pharmacutical
• In person event (all day) in London in September/October
• Pre-call with Regenerous to meet the fellow entrepreneurs
• 1 virtual session ahead of the hackathon with the mentors you've been teamed up with
• Follow up 121 support with Regenerous to check in around your action plan
• Continued mentoring and support from Baringa mentors

This is a fully funded programme to cover the support, although there will be an admin and processing fee of £125+vat to participate payable in advance in one payment upon acceptable of offer of a place.

In 2025, Pernod Ricard UK, together with Regenerous and Social Impact Support, are going to support a group of social enterprises to secure more private sector income. It could be you are looking for contracts worth £5,000-£30,000; smaller regular purchases under £5,000, or larger contracts that last years and worth six figures. This short programme will work well for anyone with a wellbeing or team away day opportunity, office-related suppliers, food and beverage suppliers for the hospitality industry, and those with professional services like training, consulting etc.

The support will involve:

• In person kick off session 6th February 2025 (all day) in London (includes training)
• 3 virtual mentoring sessions (February 26th, March 26th, April 30th at 12.45pm-2pm)
• Being matched to one to two mentors from Pernod Ricard’s commercial team
• Support to develop your sales materials, your pipeline and your pitch
• In Person showcase event in May at Pernod Ricard, pitching to buyers across the business
• Access to our nature inspired leadership group, Regenerous, between April-June covering leadership topics: complexity and adaptability, resilience, building capacity, growth mindset and accessing your inner nature for additional resource and nourishment.

This is a fully funded programme to cover the support, although there will be an admin and processing fee of £125+vat to participate payable in advance in one payment upon acceptable of offer of a place.