We’re very pleased to be able to open up applications for the Bethnal Green Ventures 2012 programme. We’re looking for ambitious early stage technology startups that are trying to solve social or environmental problems. For some hints about what we’re looking for have a read of this. The deal is that we’ll invest up to [...]
Hello again
Well, we’re back. We’re very pleased to announce that NESTA has agreed to invest in BGV through its Social Venture Intermediaries Fund. This means we’ll be able to invest in new ventures in the next round of BGV. How will it work? Well, early in 2012 we’ll open up applications to find early stage tech-based [...]
Bethnal Green Ventures 2011
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 [...]
BGV Show and Tell
– and some thank-yous
Ten weeks and six projects later, Bethnal Green Ventures Show and Tell finale kicked off last night. Over the last ten weeks, we’ve been working with six early-stage social ventures who are using web and mobile tools to change stuff that matters. Some of them were little more than hunches or articulations of problems when [...]
Introducing…. Simple CRB
It’s amazing the hoops people have to jump through to get a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check to volunteer with an organisation in the UK, not to mention the costs to the charity as well as the waiting time. With hundreds of charities and other not-for profit organisations in the UK, each having to apply [...]
Introducing…. Homeless SMS
All our Bethnal Green Ventures ideas are early-stage; however, we still wanted to work with a mix of ideas at slightly different points along their journey to becoming real solutions. Some, like The Good Gym, were already testing their idea with users. Others were little more than the articulation of an interesting problem that needed [...]
Introducing…. FLiP
We’ve asked all six of the Bethnal Green Ventures teams to blog about their ideas here over the coming weeks. Our third project, FLiP, is an online tool to engage young people via their social network and direct them to opportunities. An early concept screen-shot of the FLiP homepage and the FLiP logo FLiP uses [...]
Introducing…. Guilti.ly
People raise money for good causes in all sorts of ways. Some run marathons. Others go volunteer abroad in orphanages. But then there is the rest of us. The rest of us who mean well, want to do good but chose to partake in different sorts of activities. Sometimes of these activities are things that [...]
Introducing…. The Good Gym
We’ve asked all six of the Bethnal Green Ventures teams to blog about their ideas here over the coming weeks. Next up is the Good Gym. The Good Gym connects runners with members of the community who need some help. The idea is to help you do good and keep fit at the same time. [...]
Introducing….
The Brain Support Network
We’ve asked all six of the Bethnal Green Ventures teams to blog about their ideas here over the coming weeks. First up, is Sam Van Rood and The Brain Support Network: The Brain Support Network matches and links people who have survived and recovered from a stroke with patients who have just suffered a stroke. [...]
