Social ventures are companies that combine the impact-centric agenda of a charity with the profit generation strategies of a business. How this is achieved differs from company to company,
but fundamental to all social ventures is the concept of complementing the profitability goal at the core of mainstream businesses with an impact mission focused on enacting positive societal, environmental or cultural change.
OUI is focussed on helping present and former staff and students at the University of Oxford with their ideas for all forms of business. We also work with a number of partner organisations
across the UK and welcome people from outside of the University to help us build our social ventures together. If you are interested in getting involved in any way click on the links below.
Since launching our support for social ventures in 2018 we have helped ten social ventures incorporate so far. We have another 3 dozen in the pipeline. But what are they and what do they do?
OUI tries to help coordinate funding for the projects it supports at all stages of development, from the first nucleus of an idea, all the way through to its first investments. If you are a venture we
support, the current opportunities for funding are listed below. If you are interested in funding or investing in the social ventures we support, follow the links below.
