It’s been bugging me lately, an annoying feeling that things are not quite right around Camberwell. We are cautiously optimistic about this year as the we begin to lift the business out of the hole that was late 2009/early 2010. The processes are working fairly well, the team seems to have regained their pre-drop optimism [...]
Headingley Development Trust
About the same time we set up Camberwell in 2006, a group of us established Headingley Development Trust .
We set up clubs, bought a shop, established a farmer’s market, undertook two successful community share issues of £100k each and recruited 900 members and have started a community orchard project, but the big prize took 5 [...]
Sustainability – yuch!
I hate the word almost as much as ‘going forward’. It’s become one of those overused and undefined regen words that has me reaching for a Macdonalds.
Yet the struggle for it gets me out of bed each morning. It’s not just the eco bit, it’s how you create the better world. A Camberwell preoccupation, as [...]
Improve your Chances with a Story
The best way to realise your project (after you have worked up the numbers!) is to weave your story through it.
A story about the why and who and how at a personal level. An authentic story. Your story.
People invest in people, buy from people. They don’t buy spreadsheets, benefits, and features. If you are pitching [...]
8 Steps to Qualifying Your Lead – SCOTSMAN score
This is what we use in Camberwell – a simple, useful and memorable way to assess our prospective clients. One point is given to every yes. A score of around 5 or above is well worth pursuing. A score of less than 5 can be increased as the relationship grows.
1. Solution – can you provide [...]
Risk | For a Job
If you know a few 20 somethings, you probably know people frustrated and looking for a job. I see lots of posts on the web about how to write the perfect CV, behave in an interview (if you can get one) and dressing for success. I also see lots more touting ridiculous jobs in multi-level [...]
Designing for People and Change
I have been thinking alot about design lately. Not in the classical sense, but rather in regards to how social business intersects with physical design. We challenge our projects constantly, to deliver a high quality design, community accessibility and importantly connectivity. And I think much of the best design now and importantly into the future [...]
Social Business in Escher
What a week it has been. Social entrepreneurs are still the negative (white) space in an Escher symmetry drawing.
We saw an investment project go to an investment panel, returning to the panel actually, having achieved all that was asked of it and a bit more for good measure – including reducing the costs by 35%.
We [...]
Regeneration | Rethink
People have been working to regenerate areas of Britain for decades; most acutely since Thatcher took power. Thatcher came along, with the promise of the free market to make our world better. Reagan more aptly described it as trickle down economics. Trickle being the operative world. What ensued, in fact, is the fastest climb to [...]
About Todd
Todd Hannula was a self-confessed “corporate boob”, before moving to Yorkshire and making things happen. He is a co-founder and CEO of Leeds-based social entrepreneurial development and consultancy firm Camberwell that makes places and spaces work; including their own social business ventures for entrepreneurs and a game-changing aspirational place.
About Chrissie
Chrissie Slater grew up on a small Scottish island. With a history of private sector business development both for the corporate sector and for her own business, she was selected as one of Yorkshire’s Woman Business Ambassadors in 2007 - and joined Camberwell the same year.
About Chris
Chris Hill has worked in the field of enterprise and regeneration for twenty years and is Camberwell's co-founder and business development director. His specialist areas include development trusts and associated property development, business planning and enterprise work with housing associations.
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CIC or not to CIC?
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From Values to Value
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Social Enterprise comes to Venturefest
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CIC | The Achilles Heel
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Going for it!
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ResPublica
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Silly, Really!
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Restricting Structures
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Dragon Boats and Teamwork
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Entrepreneurial Approach: Social Enterprise Needs More of It
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Kieran: Isn't this the classic problem of how to leverage ...
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Todd: Gerry, Agreed. And I would add that my experience ...
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Gerry Andrews: Having been involved in working with local communi...
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Alan Wallace: Hmmmmm. He's clever and speaks well in every sens...
