StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 92 SharedChildcare  is a social enterprise that matches childless couples with families with children to give the couples access to children for a limited number of days per year. Normally couples are expected to plan at least one day a month for childcare volunteering as part of the SharedChildcare scheme. This is done on a long-term basis and with the same child until the child reaches 18, so the volunteer caregivers are seen by the child as a secular godfather and godmother. CEO QUOTE "SharedChildcare is a win-win: the parents get some time off for rest or for personal projects; and the volunteer caregivers get to spend time with a child if that's what they want. We conduct thorough background checks and vetting, of course. When you think about it, people spend so much time on their own pets, or even on other people's pets via apps such as BorrowMyDoggy. So looking after a child once in a while is a complete no-brainer. To use a real estate anal...

StartupRealities No 67 RetiredVolunteer  is a social enterprise which allocates volunteer roles to retired people. CEO QUOTE "Young people in many countries around the world are subject to military service or non-military alternative civilian service . Civilian service can sometimes help develop professional and teamworking skills but it comes at a crucial point of life when young people are about to embark on their career. Unfortunately, in most cases a year that takes you away from your career is a year lost. On the other hand, when people retire, they miss the social interaction and routine of the workplace. Time is less precious for retirees as their income is usually based on a pension. So we simply connected the dots by starting RetiredVolunteer to provide pensioners on a nationwide scale with meaningful post-retirement activities that benefit the economy and society. This is akin to former UK Prime Minister David Cameron's 2010 Big Society plan applied in action...