ASSETS: Social Enterprise Application form 2022

The survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.

ASSETS: Assisting Social Enterprises to Succeed is Wates’ innovative business support programme for social enterprises in the construction industry supply chain who are aiming to scale their operations and secure larger contracts. Wates and the Impact Hub King’s Cross are working together on a pilot business mentoring programme with the shared goal of supporting social or environmental impact-driven suppliers to improve readiness to scale up and successfully compete UK-wide.

Following from our successful pilot in 2021, we will be recruiting five SEs to receive expert workshops, peer to peer sessions, business mentoring sessions with Wates colleagues and more.
 
 

1. Organisation name *

 

2. Business website *

 

3. Applicant name *

 

4. Applicant email *

 

5. Applicant contact telephone number
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6. Are you willing and able to commit time and energy to this programme (approx 2 days per month for 7 months)? Please describe how will you organise your team to ensure you can meet these requirements? *

 

7. If shortlisted, you will likely be required to attend an online interview in March. Are you able to attend? *

 

8. Where are you located? (Mentors and SEs will discuss virtual/in person meeting preferences) *

 

9. Current Annual Turnover (base on previous year) *

 

10. How long have you been trading as a social enterprise?

 

11. What is your legal structure? *

 

12. Does your business meet the following criteria:
Over 50% of income through trade
Over 50% of profit reinvested into social/environmental purpose
Social/environmental purpose clearly defined in governance documents
Majority controlled in the interest of the social/environmental mission *

 

13. Please describe the commercial purpose of your Social Enterprise (include what you are selling and your business model). *

 

14. Please describe the social and /or environmental impact purpose of your organisation and beneficiary group/s (max 150 words) *

 

15. What are your goals for organisational growth? Please describe the scale (geographic, market reach and turnover) you would like to achieve in 1 year, 3 years, 5 years? *

 

16. Do you currently have plans for how you will achieve and fund your growth? *

 

17. What market opportunities will you be able to access by scaling? *

 

18. What skills do you have and what skills are you lacking to achieve your vision? *

 

19. What motivates you to join this programme?

 

20. What would you like to learn/achieve from this programme? *

 

21. How diverse is your team (e.g. gender, ethnicity) ? *

 

Please summarise your social/environmental impact to date? *

 

22. Are you currently measuring your impact? If so, how? (NB: It's okay if you are not yet measuring it, just tell us what you would measure) (max: 100 words) *