# Eight social entrepreneur awards up for grabs

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/02/08/eight-social-entrepreneur-awards-up-for-grabs/
- Published: 2013-02-08T15:50:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Awards for social entrepreneurs in Ireland worth up €130,000 for individuals are
open for applications up 18^(th) February.**

Social Entrepreneurs Ireland is looking for social entrepreneurs who have an innovative
solution to a societal challenge, who have a project/organisation that is up and
running with evidence of activities undertaken and who aim to significantly scale
and grow the impact of what they are doing.

[Social Entrepreneurs Ireland](http://www.socialentrepreneurs.ie) will choose eight
social entrepreneurs who have the most potential to create significant social impact.
There are two programmes for the awards – **Impact** which will provide €130,000
over two years plus €70,000 of other support to social entrepreneurs who are established
and have the potential to grow, and **Elevator** which will provide €22,000 in growth
capital and €10,000 worth of other support for ideas that are at an earlier stage.

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The process of assessing the awards will go through various stages with the winners
announced in September.

Previous winners have included a wide variety of projects related to social welfare,
employment and culture.

 * **[Irish social entrepreneurs offered €600,000](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/04/05/irish-social-entrepreneurs-offered-e600000/)**(
   5 April 2014)
 * **[Foundation adds managing grantmaking service to help other trusts](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/04/13/foundation-adds-managing-grantmaking-service-to-help-other-trusts/)**(
   13 April 2015)
 * **[Lemonaid and ChariTea to raise funds in the UK](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/02/11/lemonaid-charitea-raise-funds-uk/)**(
   11 February 2016)