London Creative Labs was started by Sofia Bustamante after an inspiring trip in June ‘09 to Grameen HQ in Dhaka, Bangladesh. During the trip she got a deep insight into the highly effective Grameen organisation and returned with a vision of applying the principles and practices of Social Business to tackling worklessness and poverty in London.

Aims

• Address societal challenges creatively through Social Business.
• Bring people from different backgrounds together for disruptive social innovation to makes a real difference
• Be an effective network-based organisation that does peer production.
• Operate as a Social Business.

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Engagement

Over an intense period of a few months, Sofia engaged with many social innovators, entrepreneurs and other collaborators to identify the challenges facing her vision. This led to a creative and agile process that resulted in the conception of the first program for London Creative Labs: The Job Labs!