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The School for Social Entrepreneurs Fife – Scotland’s first established school, is currently based at BRAG Enterprises. Crosshill Business Centre, Crosshill, Fife. Offering a training allowance, travelling and childcare expenses, what better opportunity to create change within your own community? Projects in the past have ranged from developing an organic food outlet to recycling aluminium cans, from creating a multi media organisation engaging with a specific target group to establishing a community farm. At a national level, students have worked on projects ranging from after school care to text guides for the visually impaired, from women’s education in Africa to cross community sports clubs in North Belfast. For the last three years, the SSE Fife based at BRAG has offered a year long learning programme of action tailored learning to these characteristics. Our programmes are built on learning by doing, an approach that emphasises experience, experimentation and personal needs; and our students have ranged in age from twenty to seventy; from twelve year’s unemployment to running a community organisation full-time. There is no SSE student mould except for being open to learning and taking on new ideas. We offer * individualised learning for students and their projects from start-up; * the personal support of tutors and mentors * learning from like-minded peers * expert witnesses/innovators; those who’ve taken the path before and share what worked and what didn’t; * case studies * project visits; * hard and soft skills training * political climate Who can SSE – Fife help? SSE Fife is for anyone who wants to develop their entrepreneurial capacities and use them for social benefit. SSE believes that many more people have the potential to innovate than actually do and those who do so could achieve more if given opportunities for reflection and the support of like-minded people. We cannot develop something that isn’t there to start with or offer many guiding rules but we can help build self confidence, increase commitment and expand capacity for innovation. We will not tell students what to do but we will show them what others have done and help them learn on the job by developing their own projects. SSE – Fife programmes provide individuals with a unique opportunity to explore different options and behaviours and put new ways of operating into action.

1. c/o BRAG Enterprises Ltd
2. Crosshill Business Centre
3. Crosshill
4. KY5 8BJ

• Tel: 01592 860296 Xtn 121
• Fax: 01592869629
• Website: www.sse.org.uk

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