Over the last six months one of our Directors has been completing a Business for Good programme – on top of all her usual work for the co-op and delivering multiple mindfulness courses!  Laura Smith received her graduation certificate at a celebration event following the completion of the Growth and Resilience West Yorkshire Programme, delivered by SSE and Co-operatives UK. The programme ran from May to October and covered areas such as Business planning, income streams, social impact, communications and marketing,  decarbonisation, technology and digital development and HR.  Laura also learned about using action learning sets and had three excellent mornings in small groups working with other West Yorkshire social enterprises.

Laura said:

“I came away from the course feeling proud of the clarity we have around our vision and values, the quality of the product we offer and its social impact. We can also be proud of our governance and the finance systems which we have developed to run Leeds Mindfulness Co-op. We identified communication and marketing as an area we will develop further.”