Social Enterprise
Objectives
The Cambridge Student Hub works together with societies including Beyond Profit and Students in Free Enterprise to raise the profile of social enterprise among students across the university. The Hub also aims to connect aspiring student social entrepreneurs with Cambridge-based social enterprise initiatives.
Upcoming events & initiatives
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Key Student organizations:
Beyond Profit:
Beyond Profit's is a student-run society with the mission to "inspire and support students to make the world a better place through their career or through entrepreneurship". The society aims to achieve this goal by helping students "to get their ideal jobs and to turn their ideas into a business".
Beyond Profit hosts regular speaker events, provides a socially-oriented business course, and advises students, among other activities.
The Hub collaborates with Beyond Profit to host speaker events as well as an annual Social Enterprise Networking event, which targets both students and local social entrepreneurs.
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE):
SIFE is a global organization with over 1500 teams, which aims to create economic opportunity for others through student-led projects. SIFE Cambridge, founded in 2004, is a volunteer organization focussing on social enterprise.
SIFE is currently running several successful projects, including:
(1) The Lavinia Project - promoting micro-enterprise as a means out of poverty through the sale of Sri Lankan women's handmade cards in the UK.
(2) Alora Bespoke Dressmaking - a business that employs seamstresses in low-income communities to create made-to-measure special occasion wear, especially for the May Ball season.
(3) Partnership with FLACK - helps advice, publicize and sell the products of the growing, local social enterprise FLACK (FLACK is a vibrant new magazine for Cambridge written and produced by members of the city's homeless community).
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