STEP BY STEP BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT


We help visionary BUSINESSES

to do more good

SOME OF our clients & partners

OUR VISION & MISSION



step by step

 

change the world for the better



OUR VISION IS A NEW SOCIAL ECONOMY THAT SUPPORTS PEOPLE TO FLOURISH


WE WANT TO SEE MORE RESOURCES AND CAPITAL INVESTED IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMY 


WE STRIVE FOR WELLBEING TO BE AT THE HEART OF BUSINESS


We are a social enterprise based in the heart of the UK. We seek to make a stepped change in how business is done through delivering evaluation, business business and workplace wellbeing.


Goals of Kai-zen

Social economy


Building THE SOCIAL ECONOMY through partnerships, impact management and a place-based approach. 

Click here to:

 - Achieve optimum social impact

 - Access funding and finance

WELL-BEING


Healthy, happy, calm, productive workplaces.

Invest in staff well-being to achieve your business goals.

Find out more about how to improve staff productivity and reduce work absence through wellbeing activities that boost energy & reduce stress.

BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT


Step by step change for the better. Skills and knowledge to optimise business models.  

Improve your business the kai-zen way. 

Online business improvement blitz workshops to give you the tools, resources and support to develop optimum business models that are efficient that maximise social impact and that generate good financial returns. 

AWARENESS RAISING


Wisdom, insights & knowledge for people, communities, & businesses.

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our news, insights & resources

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Investor Support


Rachel Veitch-Straw Investment Manager, The Key Fund

Kai-zen and the Key Fund have several clients in common, supported by Kai-zen in the earlier phases of business development, or in preparing for new growth. Kai-zen works with organisations in a very holistic way; it works to their strengths and brings in learning or connections for skills gaps, all the while building client confidence and knowledge. It’s always a pleasure when our paths cross – Natasha Jolob of Kai-zen shares her expertise with diligence and efficiency as well as operating across shared values.

Well-Being Meditation Sessions


Elaine Macmanard Operations Manager, Home-Start Horizons

I have been lucky enough to attend a few of Natasha’s sessions – it's hard to put into words exactly how much good they have done for me. I have felt stronger and more focussed, deeply relaxed and refreshed and somehow cared for. The sessions are easy to access, and although I would like longer, the mini re-treats have been easier to fit into a busy work day. I can’t recommend highly enough.

Project Delivery Partner, Systems Resilience Consortium Project, Wolverhampton


Jackie Wellings CEO, Age UK Wolverhampton

I have admired your support for this project and that you were not afraid to immerse yourself in
the reality of it all.

Business Planning For Investment


Chris Coyle Director, Ebikebrum Cycling Cafe

Without our successful social investment application with the Key Fund, we would not have been able to move forward with our planned projects for 2020. The investment provided the security to continue with our growth plan and it is incredible the difference this has made, we have in a short period of time, created lasting relationships with major organisations and have had the ability to promote our social enterprise and the work we do in the community with this investment. We are now seeing the positive impacts of this work and the future of our enterprise now seems much more certain than before our social investment was secured.

Business Planning For Investment


Isreal Silgram Director, Fostering Families & Oxygen Housing and Supported Living

Recommended by a social investor, I commissioned Natasha Jolob to help me to write a business plan and secure funding so that I could make my vision a reality.

Her ability, passion, industry knowledge, national contacts and professional insight resulted in us, within a few short months, securing an £113,000 investment. Natasha helped us to have a clear understanding of how to implement our vision through a robust and clear business plan combined with a financial framework that enables us to go from strength to strength today!

If you are reading this and wondering if to secure her services to make your vision a reality stop reading this recommendation right now! Pick up the phone and make it happen. Natasha is a dynamic committed person who you can trust and gets the job done, an absolute pleasure to work with and if you are lucky, a loyal
supporter and friend.

Well-being Meditation Sessions


Sophie Short Social Enterprise Mark CIC

“I have found the sessions really beneficial in helping me to refocus and clear my mind’

latest performance data

Infrastructure support

During the last ten years we have supported 10 local infrastructure support organisations (CVS) from across the UK to increase their capacity in social enterprise, social value and social investment. 


East/ West Midlands Enterprise & Investment 

From 2019-20 we secured funding for & worked with five local infrastructure support organisations & one co-op agency to:


Deliver 14 Social Enterprise & Investment Workshops 


Increase the skills and knowledge in enterprise & investment of more than 100 local charities, social enterprises and community groups. 


Workplace Wellbeing

We supported 75 charity and social enterprise workers with their well-being during the pandemic through delivering free online wellbeing meditations. This project was supported by the Social Enterprise Support Fund (Key Fund)