Social Enterprises Change the Game for VAP in Kenya
In 2012, at a conference in Lyon, Enouce Ndeche, Founder & Executive Director of Vijana Amani Pamoja (VAP), attended a session on social enterprise development. The session was delivered by Steve Fleming of Kick4Life, a fellow Common Goal community member organisation which had developed a series of successful hospitality social enterprises in Lesotho. Kick4Life’s restaurant and […]
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Workshop series for Common Goal organisations in SE Asia
Football United, as a part of the Social Enterprise Assist team and Common Goal, delivered a 6-Session virtual social enterprise training series to members from the Southeast Asia Common Goal Regional Network. With support from the UEFA Foundation for Children, social enterprise was realised as a critical step to support the longevity of the organisations […]
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Open Field Launches Equipment Rental Business
Common Goal Community member Open Field, which delivers a range of health & personal development programmes for disadvantaged young people in Cameroon, has launched a new equipment rental social enterprise. Open Field Rental Services will generate income to support the organisation’s Football for Good programmes, as well as providing job training opportunities for young people. […]
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RAFT – Survival 2 Sustainability
The Coronavirus pandemic has caused unprecedented challenges for organisation’s across the Sport for Development sector, with many facing extreme funding challenges and existential threats in the coming months. In response to the crisis, Social Enterprise Assist, has created a new tool to help organisations survive, adapt, improvise and ultimately achieve improved sustainability through increased funding […]
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SEA conducts MYSA onsite consulting & Kenya-wide Workshop
The first Social Enterprise Assist (SEA) onsite consulting project for an established social enterprise and sport for good organization partnered Kick4Life from Lesotho with MYSA Kenya. There are many similarities between the social enterprise development journeys of Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) and Kick4Life. Both MYSA and Kick4Life have been operating hospitality and sport-related social […]
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MYSA Partnership Launched
We are excited to announce that we will be working with MYSA this year to support the development and growth of their social enterprises. The Mathare Youth Sports Association uses football to deliver a range of social development programmes in the Mathare district of Nairobi in Kenya. MYSA is one of the longest running Sport […]
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Berlin Workshop Promotes SE
In November 2018 we delivered a workshop in Berlin in partnership with the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The Generation Amazing workshop provided social enterprise training to 13 organisations across the MENA region. It covered an introduction to the concept of social enterprise as well as […]
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SEA Video Unveiled
We are excited to share a new video about the development of Social Enterprise Assist and what we hope to achieve in the future. The video features Matselane, a young person from Lesotho who progressed through Kick4Life’s sports programmes to secure a full-time position within the organisation’s social enterprise restaurant.
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Creative Workshop in Lesotho
A number of organisations from the streetfootballworld network came together in Lesotho in September 2018 to plan the development of Social Enterprise Assist. Football United, Tiempo de Juego, Sport 4 Life, Street Soccer USA and the Social Enterprise Academy joined Kick4Life for a week-long workshop focused on exploring ways to support network members in generating […]
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