Social return on investment - innovating within enterprise and entrepreneurship

FIRST与政府、教育和社区组织合作，提供包容性的终身学习体验。作为一个学习和发展机构，我们认可的课程、研讨会和活动增强技能、信心、自信和动力，为学习者提供公平的机会，使他们能够获得体面的工作、继续教育或创业。FIRST促进包容性经济增长，通过创新和提高企业和创业领域入门级教学和学习的质量，挑战现状。去年，我们的工作为东北经济投资贡献了约1600万英镑的社会回报，同时改善了英国资源最匮乏社区的547名学习者的生活质量。值得注意的项目包括东北创业奖和企业技能一级资格认证。在这个项目中，FIRST将与企业技能/经济领域的顶尖专家合作，制定一套指标，帮助捕捉企业技能和创业精神的真正经济和社会价值。然后，学习资源将被共享，以便跨部门组织能够证明和监测其与创业和企业技能有关的投资的社会回报。成功与否将通过与公司成长相关的关键绩效指标、利益相关者对新指标的采用以及由此导致的教育系统内的变化来衡量。

FIRST provides inclusive, lifelong learning experiences in collaboration with government, education and community organisations. As a learning and development agency, our accredited courses, workshops and events empower skills, confidence, self-belief and motivation, giving learners equitable opportunities to progress into decent work, further education or business startup. Facilitating inclusive, economic growth, FIRST challenges the status quo by innovating and improving the quality of entry level teaching and learning within enterprise and entrepreneurship.Last year our work contributed approximately 16 million in social return on investment for the North East economy whilst improving the quality of life for 547 learners in the most under-resourced communities in the UK. Notable projects include Startup Awards North East and level 1 qualifications in enterprise skills.For this project, FIRST will work alongside leading experts within enterprise skills/the economy to develop a set of indicators which assist in capturing the true economic and social value of enterprise skills and entrepreneurship. Learning resources will then be shared so that cross sector organisations can evidence and monitor their social return on investment for impact relating to entrepreneurship and enterprise skills.Success will be measured with KPIs associated with company growth, adoption of the new indicators by stakeholders and the change that occurs within education systems as a result.