Partner with us
Curtis Baron, Chief Of Staff Barclays, delivering a communication workshop in Canary Wharf
Social Ark is looking for corporate partners
Social Ark helps young people from under-resourced communities bring their start-up ideas to life, but we can't do it alone! We are currently looking for corporate partners to embark on our journey and be part of our new Step Up programme, starting in July 2021. Join us to empower local young people to become social entrepreneurs, transforming their lives and the communities around them!
Why partner with us?
We understand that corporate partners will have their own specific goals and outcomes to meet. By tailoring the partnership offer with pre-agreed goals and metrics, our collaboration will be mutually beneficial. We are confident that partnering with Social Ark will add credibility to your organisation’s overall corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy.
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Positive brand association: Engaging with Social Ark enables your organisation to prove its commitment to diversity, inclusion, and empowering disadvantaged communities.
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Partnership Acknowledgments: Partner branding will appear on online and printed promotional material; this includes our website and social media. Social Ark will proudly promote the partnership across our networks.
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Staff Engagement: Corporate volunteers have told us that directly mentoring disadvantaged young people, and supporting them to become social entrepreneurs, has taken them out of their comfort zone and helped them consider their own personal development. Examples include thinking more creatively around shared values, leadership, decision-making and negotiation.
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Innovative service solutions: The skills that employees learn through volunteering with Social Ark can be directly transferred into your business, providing creative, forward-thinking solutions. By introducing our core values and sharing our experiences, employees are empowered to consider their own privilege and how they can create a more respectful, diverse and inclusive workplace, resulting in higher levels of customer and employee satisfaction.
It’s not just about the money!
To get involved with Social Ark, you can:
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Volunteer with the Social Ark back office
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Support with marketing and communication
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Assist with fundraising
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Mentor our young entrepreneurs
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Facilitate expert workshops (e.g. finance, marketing, business planning, digital)
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Sponsor team-building activities and/or external learning journeys
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Sponsor a whole Social Ark programme
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Assist Social Ark with core funding
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Commission our workshops for your service users
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Commission our young people
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Commission us to deliver your company team-building and ‘away days’
I have worked with Lisa, the Social Ark team and their young entrepreneurs for a number of years on a range of initiatives, including building websites and mentoring the young people they work with on digital technology. The benefits for myself and the team at Barclays have been hugely positive. It's extremely humbling to witness the skills that our design team has developed for Barclays' initiatives over the years equally benefit young entrepreneurs from disadvantaged backgrounds. We've also been given the opportunity to improve our own skills coaching and mentoring these passionate young people has taken us out of our comfort zone and provided an insight into the communities on our doorstep. It's been amazing to watch their journey unfold, and I would definitely recommend working with Social Ark.
Jon Crook
Director of Digital Design, Barclays
I am continually impressed by the work Social Ark does locally. The social enterprises created by the young social entrepreneurs are bettering our communities. LLDC is a proud sponsor of SocialArk. We have funded their step-up programme for two years and mentored programme participants, who have all gone on to achieve great things. Mentoring is definitely mutually beneficial; I gain valuable insights while sharing my expertise and experience.
Michelle May, Executive Director of Inclusive Growth
London Legacy Development Corporation
Social Ark is both an inspiring and outstanding organisation, fostering extraordinary social enterprise solutions in just about everything it does. It's about finding opportunity and possibility in everyone, especially those who are underserved or often overlooked. It supports people to fulfil their biggest potential as community leaders or social entrepreneurs is brilliant. I've seen and heard the transformational impact Social Ark has had on people's lives. Social Ark reaches the parts within our communities that others fail to reach, and it does so with integrity and with joy. It's been incredible to witness the growth of social ark under the stewardship and leadership of the formidable Lisa Stepanovic - everything that comes out of Social Ark's incubation is
rich in social purpose, economic value and community impact - the very approaches we need if we want to kickstart our economic and social prosperity, from the grassroots up.
Peter Holbrook CBE
CEO, Social Enterprise UK
