Show Notes
In this episode, Rosie is joined by Grant Hayward who talks about his decision to walk away from corporate life to pursue a career focused on helping purposeful businesses and the growing scene of purposeful businesses in Oxfordshire.
OSEP is a Community interest Company supporting Social Enterprise, enterprising charities and purposeful businesses across Oxfordshire. Since 2019 it has been delivering a fully funded OxLEP business support programme, eScalate, which many Independent Oxford members have benefitted from. Support include networking events, specialist workshops and webinars, peer to peer support groups and confidential 1:1 support. Because of its success, the programme has been extended twice, now running until March 2023.
OSEP is also very engaged with a wide range of key local and national stakeholder, doing what it can to help make Oxfordshire’s economy, one that works for everyone, using enterprise as a force for good and in ways that benefit businesses, as well as contributing to the local economy and helping to address our local and pervasive social and environmental challenges.
Membership is free to any genuinely purposeful businesses, social enterprise, social entrepreneurs and enterprising charities.
As public sector funding is reduced, opportunities are opened up to develop new, powerful and creative collaborations to help achieve local strategic objectives, working with local authorities, universities and the Local Enterprise Partnership.