In the autumn of 2010, we brought together six teams of people working on very early-stage social ventures.

The people behind those ideas are from diverse backgrounds including software developers, designers or people who have personal experience of something they want to change. Their projects are beyond ‘just an idea’, but before serious money.

For ten weeks, we worked with our six teams through Bethnal Green Ventures dinners, 1-1 support and specialist mentoring sessions: We built a community of people to help social projects answer the question: ‘What do I do next?’ – whether that was about coding the product or service they’re building or about how they sustain an idea into the future.

You can read more about our six social ventures here.

You can find out about some of the other people who helped make this happen here.

We’re looking forward to opening a second round of applications for Bethnal Green Ventures in autumn 2011.

If you’d like to keep up to date, drop us a line at hello@bethnalgreenventures.com and we’ll add you to our mailing list.

And check out www.sicamp.org for more information about Social Innovation Camp, who run the programme.