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“Aspire foundation are on the right tracks in trying to prove us all wrong in our expectations of the homeless and disadvantaged”
Craig Dearden-Phillips, Social Enterprise Ambassador and author of Your Chance to Change the World, The no-fibbing guide to social entrepreneurship
We are focusing on developing and replicating enterprise models in conjunction with private and public sector partners across several key themes:
The enterprises we support are generally local businesses and services offering high quality services to customers, while providing a professional and personal service for employees in a supportive, flexible environment. Most of them turn over up to £300,000 per year and generate over 50% of their income from commercial activities. Our businesses vary from recycling to print finishing, window cleaning to landscape gardening.
Aspire Foundation focuses on social enterprises with close links to both homeless sector housing and support services, and mainstream business or corporate sponsors to provide trainees with a clear pathway into work. Our social enterprises offer trade skills alongside general experience of working in a local business.
We are developing new partnerships and ventures and this year launched pilots in recycling at Brighton Wood Store and gardening and horticulture with award-winning Mow and Grow. If successful we will be looking to replicate these models across the country.
Aspire Bristol
Aspire Oxfordshire
Aspire Sheffield
Aspire Blackpool/Helping Hand
Aspire East London/First Fruit
Mow and Grow (Norwich)
National Community Wood Recycling Project (Brighton)
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