Funding

Learning Launchpad Fund

30/07/2009

Created by the Launchpad at the Young Foundation, in partnership with the independent education foundation Edge, the Fund supports ideas that help young people aged 1425 reach beyond academic paths to success, encourage learning by doing, and develop their noncognitive "soft" skills.

The Fund offers investment at two stages:
Stage one investments These investments of up to £30,000 are suitable for people who are starting out with a new idea.
Stage two investments These investments of up to £100,000 are typically suitable for organisations or initiatives that are already up and running and want to grow.

If your idea delivers its social goals via a social enterprise or forprofit commercial organisational business, they will usually look for either a recoverable loan or an equity stake in your business, or a convertible grant that they can make back once your cash flow can sustain it.

Deadline: 15 July 2009. There will be further deadlines throughout 2009/10

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