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Since 2014, Hatch has supported more than 9,000 founders from across the UK through our community events, mentoring and support programmes. Of that number, more than 1,600 founders were supported through our longer term Hackathon, Launchpad, Incubator and Accelerator cohort programmes alone.
Since pivoting to delivering our support to founders online in early 2020, we’re increasingly supporting people from across the UK, having previously focussed on founders in London and the South East. Now one in three founders supported through our cohort programmes are based outside of London, from richly diverse communities across the UK, all the way from Bognor Regis to Edinburgh.
Over the course of 2023-24, we supported 1,245 founders through our cohort and community programmes, with:
Of founders running a business that tackle global sustainability challenges
Of founders being women or from other marginalised genders
Of founders originating from an ethnic minority background
We supported a record 269 founders from across the UK through 19 Launchpads, Incubators, Accelerators and Deep Dives. These longer term support programmes offered guidance and advice to the full spectrum of founders – those who were early in their entrepreneurial journeys through to founders with more established businesses looking to scale up their reach and impact.
Throughout the past financial year, we supported 269 UK founders through our comprehensive cohort programme. To gauge the effectiveness of our support, we asked participants to rate their knowledge and expertise in various areas before and after completing a Hatch programme. Among the biggest changes were:
The founder felt better able to access the funding they need, up 123%
The founder felt they were more capable of measuring the impact of their business, up 92%
Having the skills and knowledge to communicate their business’s impact, up 73%
Amarie Cassidy
Volleyball
Hatch supported more than 900 founders through the community programme in 2023-24, which includes one on one consultations and mentoring, networking events, panel discussions, talks masterclasses and pitch practice days. This wraparound of support means regardless of a founder’s stage of business, founders can come to the community team for a broad range of support for both themselves and their businesses.
The number of founders we supported through our events and activities
More than 300 hours of mentoring provided to founders
The number of events and activities we ran for founders
Timi Merriman-Johnson
Mr Moneyjar
As a charity, all of our work is only possible thanks to the continued support of our partners and funders. From local authorities, to trusts and foundations, corporate organisations, and more, we work with a wide range of partners to maximise the impact we are able to have on underrepresented founders across the UK.
Through working with us our partners are able to play a part in building a better world through entrepreneurship, and many of them also have the opportunity to get directly involved. Staff at our partner organisations are able to volunteer directly with the beneficiaries of our programmes, gaining insight into the early stages of a growing start-up, and providing pivotal guidance that could shape the journey of an aspiring entrepreneur.
From 1:1 mentoring opportunities, to volunteering as a ‘friendly dragon’ at our pitch days, or getting involved as a problem-solver at one of our specialised clinics, these hands-on opportunities have a huge impact on both the founders that benefit and the volunteers themselves.
More than 25 of Hatch’s partners were involved in supporting our community programme
The number of social enterprises and capacity building organisations that make up the Collective Leadership Group (CLG)
In total 304 volunteers gave up their time as mentors and coaches in 2023–24
Nick Howe
Enterprise and Climate Engagement and Partnerships, Natwest
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