WHY JOIN THE COURSE?

Help more people, better

Find a structured way to think strategically, get guided access to scaling tools and increase your impact by reaching more people in new places.

Achieve financial sustainability

Achieve more with your current resources and establish who will deliver and pay for your solution to scale.

Identify your ideal pathway to scale

Discover the ideal route(s) for you to build a solid scaling strategy.

Learn from like-minded social leaders

Access a network of peers pursuing scale and put your learning into practice.

9 OUT OF 10

Highly recommended course

The average score alumni gave for their likelihood to recommend the programme.

9 OUT OF 10

Excellent concepts comprehension

Alumni come away from the course clearer on the intended impact they’re trying to make.

10 OUT OF 10

Putting theory into practice

100% of alumni finish the course with a broad strategy for scaling.

10 OUT OF 10

Perfect workload balance

The alumni who rated the course were satisfied with the course demands.

Sometimes we fear to scale our impact because of the cost implications but when you attend this course, you learn that you can scale with the limited available resources by involving other doers.

Pauline Picho Keronyai Nama Wellness Community Centre

Course details

Dates

The course starts on 17 February and will take place over 5 weeks.

Commitment

4-5 hours each week is recommended.

Who it's for

Leaders of nonprofits, social entrepreneurs, or someone working on programmes looking to scale their impact.

Price

The cost varies depending on your organisation’s revenue, ranging from £200 – £500 + VAT per place. More info below.

Location

The course will take place online, including 3 live sessions via Zoom.

THE ALUMNI EXPERIENCE

NYANAM WIDOWS RISING

An organisation providing holistic support to widows in Kenya, equipping them with skills, knowledge and resources to lead positive social transformation in their communities.

INHERIT YOUR RIGHTS

An organisation that seeks to bring women in Tanzania under the rightful protection of the law through education and advocacy to eradicate gender-based injustice.

HOW YOU'LL LEARN

Learning Kit

You’ll access a Learning Kit including videos, case studies, frameworks and other resources to maximise your knowledge.

Learn by Doing

Each week you’ll be given a task to help you immediately apply your learnings into practice.

Peer Support

During 3x Zoom live sessions, you will discuss, challenge and deepen your understanding alongside your peers.

The course helped us peel back the layers of our big idea for impact, providing tools and guidance for each step along the way as we crafted our scaling plan.

Saundra Williams Restore Hope: Liberia

YOUR LEARNING WEEK BY WEEK

COURSE SYLLABUS

Your learning journey on the Getting Scale Ready course will be accompanied by the chance to join 3 live online sessions. If you can’t make the live sessions, they’re available as recordings.

Live Session Schedule

  • Live session 1: Introduction and Scale Readiness, Tuesday 25th February 2-4 pm (UK Time)
  • Live session 2: Strategy for Scale, Tuesday 11th March 2-4 pm (UK Time)
  • Live session 3: Pitching and Next Steps, Tuesday 25th March 2-4 pm (UK Time)

Course Curriculum

Week 0: 10th February – Welcome to Getting Scale Ready

  • Introduction to the Programme
  • Live Sessions Schedule
  • Baseline Survey
  • Extra Resources
Week 1: 17th February – Assess Scale Readiness
  • Introduction to week 1 – Assess your starting point
  • The difference between growth and scale – Reaching further with your resources
  • Tackling societal problems at scale – Implications for what sustainable impact looks like for you
  • Finding the sweet spot for scale – Ensuring solutions are both impactful, valuable and sustainable
  • ASSIGNMENT: Scale Readiness Diagnostic Quiz
  • REFLECTION: Preparation for live session
Week 2: 24th February – Develop Scale Strategy
  • Introduction to week 2 – The scale strategy that will guide your journey
  • Components of a scale strategy – Key questions to answer when building your strategy
  • Importance of a Scale Strategy- A noble mission is not enough to have impact at scale
  • TOOL: Problem Definition – Define the societal problem you want to address at scale
  • TOOL: Intended Impact – Clarify the change you want to achieve
  • TOOL: Doer and Payer at Scale – Establish who will deliver and pay your solution at scale
  • ASSIGNMENT: Start Strategy Formula
  • Extra resources- Going deeper
Week 3: 3rd March – Explore Pathways to Scale
  • Introduction to Week 3: Explore Pathways to Scale
  • Scale Pathways- Key considerations and trade-offs for choosing your pathway to scale
  • TOOL: Choosing a Scale Pathway
  • TOOL: Design Your Core
  • ASSIGNMENT: Complete Strategy Formula
  • REFLECTION: Preparation for Live Session
  • Extra resources- Going deeper
Week 4: 10th March – Test to Validate
  • Introduction to Week 4 – Redefining risk
  • Components of a Good Test – Key considerations to build effective tests and feedback loops
  • TOOL: Identify Risky Assumptions
  • ASSIGNMENT: Test risky assumptions
Week 5: 17th March – Plan and Pitch
  • Introduction to Week 5 – Create a compelling pitch and effective action plan
  • TOOL: Create an action plan
  • TOOL: Develop your pitch
  • ASSIGNMENT: Develop your pitch
  • A final word – Key Scaling Mindsets
  • Extra resources – Going deeper

PRICING GUIDE

The course cost varies depending on your organisation’s annual revenue.

 

  • £200: for organisations with a revenue of less than £400,000

  • £350: for organisations with a revenue over £400,000

  • £500: for organisations with a revenue over 1 million

 

*VAT is not included in the prices shown above.

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Age UK Cheshire provides care and support services to elderly people including physical and mental health and be an active member of their community. This in turn empowers them to love later life. We worked with Age UK Cheshire to explore how their Men in Sheds programme could be scaled up.

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Through the Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg Project, Alexandra Rose Charity gives families the spending power to eat good food. They work directly with children’s centres and community organisations supporting families in need, alongside market traders, to provide weekly Rose Vouchers, which can be spent on fruit and veg at local markets.
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A Band of Brothers is a nonprofit established by men committed to positive social change through personal development and community building. A Band of Brothers was a participant in our first UK Scale Accelerator  programme.

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Bikeworks is a London based non-profit social enterprise that uses cycling as a tool to tackle social and environmental challenges in the community. It aims to build a diverse cycling community, initiate capability of mechanical skills and supports businesses to be greener.

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CoachBright is a social mobility charity on a mission to support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in becoming confident, independent, and resilient so they can lead the lives they want.

They partner with Primary and Secondary schools and universities in England to run face-to-face and virtual coaching programmes. Through partnering young people with relatable role models, we aim to raise their confidence, independence and attainment.

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Since 2006, Commonweal has enabled experts and partner organisations to trial and test new ideas, approaches, and models designed to improve the lives of vulnerable or marginalised groups through property-based pilot projects.
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Core Arts is a not-for-profit Social Business. They promote positive mental health and well-being through creative learning.

We are running a full timetable of COVID-secure in-person creative courses at our centre and online Zoom courses, ideal for those who are self-isolating or prefer distance learning. 

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At EQUIP, they envision empowering all teams involved in primary care to make improvements on an ongoing basis, which would have a tangible impact on staff joy and user experience.

EQUIP is a Quality Improvement programme that has been working with teams in primary care since 2016. They encourage our staff and citizens to become change agents and create a passionate community of practice.

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At Evolve, they work to transform the lives of children and young people by developing their attitude, agency and aspirations.
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Expert Link is a peer-led organisation championing the voice of people with lived experience of multiple disadvantages, including homelessness, mental health issues, substance misuse, offending, domestic violence and abuse. They aim to inspire, support and champion co-production, with the voices of people with lived experience at our heart.
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Franklin Scholars was founded in 2013 with the goal of using peer mentoring to help students in the transition into secondary school. In the ten years since, they have now worked in over 80 secondary schools across nine regions of England, providing in-school literacy or numeracy-focused peer-mentoring programmes, using our social and emotional skills development framework. This programme has now reached over 4,000 young people.
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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit is a voluntary organisation supporting people subject to immigration control for over 25 years. They offer free legal immigration advice, representation and support services to people seeking asylum, refugees, children and vulnerable adults.
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Groundswell is a nonprofit which works to tackle homelessness by working with homeless people and enable othem to take more control of their lives, have a greater influence on services, and therefore set a chain reaction of togetherness and opportunity. We worked with Groundswell to scale the impact of their Homeless Health Peer Advocacy Programme that partners former homeless with current homeless, to ensure health appointments are met.

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KeyRing is a charity that provides social care support in England and Wales. Since 1990 our support has started with the simple question ‘what do you want from life?’ They connect people and inspire them to build the life they want.
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Leonard Cheshire Disability is a nonprofit supporting disabled people in the UK and around the world to remain active members of society, fulfil their potential and establish their independence.  We specifically helped Leonard Cheshire to scale their CAN DO project: a volunteer programme for 16-35-year-olds across the UK.

 
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Mayday Trust transformed itself from a traditional charity providing supported accommodation services, to a nationally-recognised voice for radical systems change. When Mayday heard from people that traditional services were failing to help and they were becoming trapped in broken systems, Mayday set about to transform the services it offered.
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My Sisters Place are a Domestic Abuse Support Service and we provide support to those who have or who are experiencing domestic abuse. The service offers both practical, holistic and therapeutic support in regards to domestic abuse. Referrals to the service are accepted from a range of external agencies and self-referrals direct from the client. We are a needs led service using a trauma-informed approach.
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At NCT, they envision that everyone who becomes a parent feels confident, connected, and safe because they believe parents help build the foundations of the future. That's why NCT is a charity with a clear and singular mission – they support people as they become parents. They’re here for you through pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood.
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RECLAIM is a social change organisation that challenges the homogeneity that exists in the leadership profiles across UK society and supports youths and the working class people.

 
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Safer Places is a nonprofit which provides a comprehensive range of services to adults and children affected by domestic and sexual abuse, not only offering safe accommodation (West Essex, Mid Essex, Hertfordshire and Southend) but helping victims to overcome these experiences and build a better future for themselves.

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Spark Inside uses coaching to unlock individuals' potential and drive culture change in the criminal justice system so that rehabilitation is possible.
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Staying Put is a UK nonprofit which offers a range of services to victims and survivors of domestic abuse and aims to empower them to safely remain in their own home and community.

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Street Doctors is a UK nonprofit who change the lives of high risk young people by giving them the skills they need to deliver life-saving first aid. Through the programme Street Doctors aim to increase the confidence and aspirations of youths, give them a sense of responsibility for their actions and help them to change their attitudes towards violence.

We facilitated an initial workshop with Street Doctors to consider their replication potential and are now providing ongoing support and advice to Street Doctors as they develop a replication model for international expansion.

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Streetwise Opera enables people who’ve experienced homelessness to find inspiration and empowerment while rebuilding their lives and identities.
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TLC: Talk, Listen, Change is a relationship charity that has supported people in North England for over 40 years.

They aim to ensure that everyone within our community benefits from good emotional well-being, and the key to this is maintaining safe, healthy, and happy relationships.

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The Reader is an award winning UK social enterprise working to connecting people with great literature through shared reading. Furthermore, it pioneers the use of shared reading to improve well-being, reduce social isolation and build resilience across diverse communities.

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Tide works to expand the UK-wide network of carers and dementia professionals and raise awareness of the needs of unpaid carers of people with dementia. 

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Vi-ability, based in North Wales, is a social enterprise working with young adults to transform struggling community sports clubs into viable, thriving businesses and hubs, using this as a catalyst for entrepreneurship and engaging youths into local communities. It provides opportunities to develop skills by offering training, work experience and qualifications in commercial sports management.

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At WEvolution, they nurture collectives called Small, Powerful Groups: meaningful, resourceful and accountable communities where everyone can be a change-maker and an entrepreneur.
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Action West London is a social enterprise that runs Acton Street Market, which brings diverse communities together by creating entrepreneurial opportunities and an inclusive, high profile public space.
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Urban Uprising is a Scotland-based charity using rock-climbing to improve the wellbeing of at-risk 8 to 18 year olds in the UK who are disadvantaged by poverty, health and other inequalities.
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Settle is a London charity that supports vulnerable young people moving into their first home, as part of a mission to break the cycle of youth homelessness
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PeacePlayers International is a cross-community charity that uses basketball to unite, educate and inspire young people in Northern Ireland, as a means to promote peace and reconciliation
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Social Bite is a social enterprise running an employment support programme for vulnerable and marginalised people experiencing homelessness across Scotland
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Humber All Nations Alliance is a charity promoting the  well-being of Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and migrant communities throughout Hull and the Humber.
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