This autumn, we’re very excited to be launching a new project.

Using everything we’ve learnt running Social Innovation Camp for the last few years, we’re setting up Bethnal Green Ventures – a practical school for people who want to use the web to make the world a better place.

Social Innovation Camp is all about taking a back-of-the-envelope idea and working out how to make it real. We’ve learnt a huge amount about what makes an idea fly or flounder as we’ve watched projects develop after Social Innovation Camp and now we want to build a new way of helping people grow an idea that one stage further: from prototype idea to social start-up.

Bethnal Green Ventures Nightschool is the first step in doing that.

From October to December 2010, we’re running a ten-week, one-evening-a-week nightschool for ideas, projects and start-ups that use the web to tackle a social problem.

The idea is to bring projects together with all the people, advice and support they need to help an early-stage idea to launch and grow.

Right now, we’re looking for people who’d like to participate.

It’s free (although we’ll ask you to put in £5 each week for dinner) and it’s a chance to meet a whole range of interesting people – both those at the same stage of starting something as you are, as well as people to share their experience and help you work on anything from product development to raising investment.

You can find a little bit more about the kind of ideas, projects and start-ups we’re looking for to participate over on the Bethnal Green Ventures site here.

If you’d like to know more drop us a line before 1st September 2010: anna(AT)sicamp(DOT)org