Nest: Home of the ‘Good Eggs’ (Online)
Nest is a new project built specifically for social impact organisations that want to achieve more social good through enterprise.
York and North Yorkshire are full of ‘good eggs.’ They’re running enterprises but, for slightly different reasons.
Driven by creating a social impact Yorkshire’s Good Eggs running social enterprises, co-ops, clubs, charities, non-profits, community projects and community owned businesses.
Nest is a new project, designed specifically to help these Good Eggs hone their business skills so they can unlock even more social impact.
Complete with £5,000 development prize grant, Nest is a six-week social impact accelerator packed with advice, content, connections and support.
If social impact is at the core of your organisations work, Nest aims to help you clear away your blockers to super-charge your impact.
What is it?
Nest is a peer-based project, hosted by an enterprise team that’s won several awards for social impact with guest experts and decision makers dropping in to share their insights.
That means each week you’ll join us for an active online workshop, where you can expect:
- 2hrs Live-Only Workshop (with half-time break)
- Host-led Group Skills Training
- Q&A with Guest Experts
- Peer Discussion
Each week you also have the option to take part in a peer exchange, where you’ll be matched with a different ‘good egg.’ Each exchange has a different focus, with different activities designed to help us all level-up our projects and organisations.
You can opt-in (or out) to each peer exchange week-by-week, many have a shorter 45min and longer 90min option.
Did you say £5,000?
Yes, we did.
We have one £5,000 development grant prize.
To enter, participants need to be active ‘good eggs’ on the project, attending and engaging with your peers. You don’t have to the enter the competition to graduate Nest.
To enter you’ll submit a short video pitch, and quick four question application explaining how the £5,000 grant will improve an enterprise function that will help you increase your social impact:
- Funding could enable online sales or booking, driving more income enabling you to do more of your social impact work.
- Funding could help you trial new products, services or suppliers you think will improve your social impacts.
From the competition deadline, entries will be judged over two weeks, the grant awarded within a month, development project expenditure to be completed and reported within six-months.
What does Nest cover?
The themes of our six workshops:
- Winning Work from sales, to donations, tenders and grants.
- Perfecting Experiences for clients, customers, funders and volunteers.
- Meaningful Marketing creating effective campaigns (ethically) for real impact.
- Collective Efforts with tips and tools from leading partnerships to creative collabs.
- Resilient Impact from crisis to continuity, in everything from finances to social impact.
- Scaling Social Impact through building smart systems with Ai, Automations, ethics and heart.
Who’s Running Nest?
You are. At Nest we want to kick start a community of ‘good eggs’ that we all own.
Enterprise CUBE CIC are hosting this Nest project, but they’ll be joined by a variety of local experts and decision makers. They’re a small team that’s launched three social enterprises and run charities, businesses, and community projects.
Am I eligible?
If your social impact is already embedded in the constitution/governing rules of your organisation, then yes, you’ll be eligible. It might be you are a registered club, society, trust, charity, co-op, CLG, CIC, CIO, etc that stated purpose is social impact.
If you’re working towards a becoming a registered social impact organisation, you are eligible to join the project but if you win the grant, you may have to take that step before you receive the grant.
If you are not an organisation yet, you may still be eligible. Perhaps you’re a group of people who come together to do good things for others, and it doesn’t have a formal structure yet. Contact us, but we suspect you’ll be welcome on the project but may need to establish a structure to receive the grant.
If you are an ethical business. Perhaps you do good work, helping people but it is not in your constitution. It is unlikely you’ll be eligible for the grant, and this project may not be right for you. Contact the team if you feel you’re a ‘good egg’ but it’s not in your constitution/governing rules of your organisation.
Programme Details
Workshops: 19, 26 February, 5, 12, 19, 26 March – 1pm – 3pm
Workshop Location: Online – via Zoom (Live peer sessions, recordings not circulated)
Peer Exchanges: We’re suggesting participants aim to keep Tuesdays 1-3pm available. This activity is optional and flexible between peers.
Competition Deadline: midnight, 31st March 2026
Register now