Partner with Hatch to deliver impact that benefits everyone

Hatch offers several partnership opportunities to help you meet your CSR goals while supporting underrepresented entrepreneurs:

• Fund a Flagship Programme: We deliver award-winning, internationally
  recognised business support programmes for underrepresened, pre-investment founders. Many of our partners choose to ringfence their support for specific affinity groups, while others trust us to deliver on our broader mission.
• Employee Volunteering: Our partners have the exclusive opportunity to engage in employee volunteering, embedding their teams in our work.
  Through strategic, skill-building experiences with founders, staff can
  personally connect to your company’s social impact investment.
• Cause Related Marketing: Create commercial partnerships that align your products with our mission, where a portion of sales supports our work while enhancing your brand’s social impact.
• Sponsor Industry-Leading Research: Strengthen your brand’s social impact by
  partnering with Hatch on purpose-led campaigns that engage your customers and demonstrate your commitment to building a fairer society. Together, we’ll put knowledge and funding into the hands of founders driving real change across the UK.
• Strengthen your social value proposition: Hatch can support your procurement success while creating lasting positive impact in communities across the UK.

The time commitment is flexible and can be tailored to your organisation’s capacity. We offer various volunteering opportunities requiring different levels of commitment:

• Mentoring – An hour per session, although volunteers can opt to provide multiple sessions to give advice, guidance and support on specific business challenges
• Pitch Days – Volunteers can serve as ‘friendly dragons’ at our pitch days, which typically take around 2 to 4 hours
• Masterclasses – Expert-led sessions over two hours focusing on one specific business topic

We work closely with our partners to find the right balance that benefits both your organisation and our founders.

We measure the impact of our partnerships through the tangible outcomes they create for underrepresented founders. Our comprehensive tracking includes:

• Number of founders supported through programmes and events
• Demographic data of participants on our core programmes
• Growth in participants’ knowledge, skills and confidence
• Specific business competency improvements
• Economic success and staffing levels at multiple stages throughout a founder journey with us

We also collect qualitative feedback from founders after they complete our programmes to understand their experience and the value they gained.

Additionally, we track the impact that partnerships have on our partners themselves by monitoring how many of their employees have participated in volunteering opportunities and gathering feedback on their experience.

Hatch works with a diverse range of partners who, like us, recognise the additional barriers faced by UK entrepreneurs from underrepresented groups. Our current partners include:

• Corporates and businesses – e.g. Banks, law firms, fast food companies, health and beauty brands, fashion companies
• Trusts and foundations – Charitable foundations focused on social impact and community development
• Public sector – Local councils
• Social investment organisations – Social finance institutions and impact investors
• Housing associations – Community-based housing providers
• NGOs and international organisations – Youth and business support organisations

Up until early 2020, the majority of the entrepreneurs we worked with were based in London and the South East. Having since taken our portfolio of support programmes online, increasingly we now work with entrepreneurs from right across the UK.

Since pivoting to delivering our support to founders online in early 2020, we’re increasingly supporting people from across the UK, and now run multiple programmes that are specifically designed for people outside of London and the South East. Currently half of the founders supported through our cohort programmes are based outside of London, from richly diverse communities across the UK, all the way from Brighton to Edinburgh.

Hatch specialises in supporting founders from underrepresented backgrounds, which means your partnership can be tailored to align with your specific diversity and inclusion priorities. Our programmes support:

• Women and other marginalised genders
• Founders from ethnic minority backgrounds
• Disabled and neurodivergent entrepreneurs
• Young founders aged 18 to 30
• Entrepreneurs creating businesses with social or environmental impact

While these are the groups we currently focus on, we’re always open to providing our services to other underrepresented groups as well. We are happy to discuss any specific requirements with funders so we can work together to determine how best to achieve your goals and support your target communities.

The financial commitment for a partnership varies depending on the type and scope of collaboration you’re interested in. We create bespoke partnerships that align with your budget, goals, and desired impact.

Whether you’re looking to sponsor a full programme, fund grants for entrepreneurs, or sponsor industry leading research, we can design a partnership package that works for your organisation.

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals are increasingly becoming a priority for businesses of all sizes, and Hatch plays an important role as a conduit in channelling that intention, resource and financial support into making a social and local impact.

We encourage you to fill out our partnership inquiry form to start the conversation about how we can work together to support underrepresented entrepreneurs in a way that aligns with your resources and objectives.