Deadline: 29-Aug-2025
Ready to grow your health-focused enterprise in London? If you’re delivering grassroots mental health support, using tech to reduce health inequalities, or running a community-based care service, then apply to this programme to scale your impact and strengthen your organisation.
The London Health Accelerator Programme is now open to support social enterprises working in health and life sciences across seven London boroughs.
This is the third cohort of their highly rated accelerator, part of the Boosting Life Sciences Social Economy programme funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Benefits
- The programme consists of a series of online study sessions. Alongside these sessions, participants will receive:
- 1:1 mentoring support from experts in the health and life sciences space
- 1 x intensive business review panel (a business needs assessment and action plan)
- Opportunity to apply for a £5,000 grant
- Graduation event in person in London
What will you learn from this course?
- Group Sessions: Collaborative, facilitated sessions where participants share challenges, swap ideas, and build entrepreneurial skills together.
- Expert Sessions: Targeted learning with specialist consultants offering tools, templates and insights to strengthen your business.
- Witness Sessions: Hear directly from social leaders who’ve built impactful health enterprises — the wins, the setbacks, and what they’d do differently.
- Business Review Panels: A focused strategy session with expert advisors to troubleshoot a real challenge in your organisation and map your next steps.
Eligibility Criteria
- The programme is open to organisations working in one of the following London boroughs:
- Camden
- Hackney
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Islington
- Lambeth
- Southwark
- Tower Hamlets
- The programme is accessible to senior leaders within an organisation. It doesn’t have to be the founder / CEO so offers an outstanding development opportunity to rising stars and emerging leaders within community health organisations. Types of organisation that they would expect to apply for the course include:
- Mental health support services
- Community health initiatives
- Health tech innovations
- Disability support services
- Elderly care services
- Nutritional and fitness programs
- Substance abuse rehabilitation
- Public health education initiatives
- Social enterprises in biotechnology
- Ethnic and racial health equity ventures
For more information, visit SSE.