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Seghu: Fixing the systemic problems blocking funding for social impact founders

Removing the persistent barriers blocking the funding need for social entrepreneurs to deliver their impact


After what feels like an eternity, Seghu is launching next week. Unfortunately, the limited places at the launch event have all been snapped up. Good news though! We are looking at taking Seghu launch and Show Me The Money funding workshop on the road, so watch this space.


If this is the first you've heard of Seghu, here's the short version: we're building the digital infrastructure social founders should have had all along. We 100% know that disrupting this sector will bring out the 'haters,' but now is the time for change.


The problem
Social founders build the businesses our communities need. Yet guidance on legal structures, governance and funding has long been expensive, opaque and gatekept. Founders pay high prices for advice they don't fully understand, chase grants they're not matched to, and often become grant-dependent before winning a single contract, or sale.


Then when they do win the contract, the publicly funded programme ends. Support disappears, and they start the frustrating cycle again. Chasing even more competitive grants and public sector contracts which seem to go to the same people.

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