News and Blog.

We’ve been nominated for the SME (11-250 employees) Award at the 2025 Northern Power Women Awards!

Our Managing Director, Hayley Hulme, is shortlisted in the Social Enterprise Women's Champion of the Year category at the UK Social Enterprise Awards 2024.

We're highlighting the collaboration between SWY and TSS through their work Experience Programme and the impact of creating Positive Change!

Recently announced as a finalist in the WISE100 Women in Social Enterprise Awards, Hayley is recognised for her remarkable contributions to business with her leadership experience building revenue, social impact, and a strong team.

Welcoming our new Chair of the SWY Board, Scott Darraugh, his background and future plans

Starts with you's Managing Director, Hayley Hulme, is delighted to launch our Social Impact Report for 2022-23 to coincide with Global Social Enterprise Day. Our report provides a snapshot of our people, partners, and numbers, showcasing how we embed social impact in everything we do, building a kinder, fairer way to do business.

As we prepare our plans for a new phase in our development, from 2024, Starts with you are looking for a new independent Board Director to join our team. As part of our parent company’s (Bolton at Home) Group Governance structure, the advert can be found on their website.

Starts with you, a Bolton social enterprise, is marking its sixth anniversary with a celebration of the impact it has made in Bolton and surrounding areas.

Managing Director Hayley Hulme shares her thoughts on our brand refresh and new website.

Starts With You have awarded a three-year contract to TSS Infrastructure Service to provide contract management software through their work management platform, F0CUS.

The 2023 International Women’s Day theme is #EmbraceEquity and how ‘focus on gender equity needs to be part of every society’s DNA’.

We’re delighted to welcome Noel Sharpe into the role of the Group Chief Executive Officer.

A Bolton social enterprise is proving you don’t have to choose between making a profit and making the world a better place.

A referral came from the Money Advice Team at Bolton at Home by email during lock down at the start of May.

Two Bolton companies have become the first in the town to be recognised as leading employers for staff wellbeing.

Motiv8, a Greater Manchester programme to help people overcome barriers and move towards training and work, is celebrating the award of extra funding.

SWY has partnered with a local organisation to recycle its old IT equipment and help local people get online.

It’s been tough for a lot of people and businesses over the past 18 months but we haven’t stopped making Positive Change through our work at SWY.

Motiv8 is our £14 million award-winning project funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and the European Social Fund

We use “success” (whatever that is) as a barometer for our lives, we even tell children how important it is “to be successful”. It drives us. It shapes what we chose to do, value, prioritise, invest in and how we see and treat others. But do we really know what we mean by “success”?

As a social enterprise focused on supporting people and creating opportunity to access work, Starts with you Ltd. (SWY), are keen to identify, capture and promote their wider social value.

We need to take urgent action to reverse our impact on the planet. As part of the Bolton Vision Partnership, a group of organisations and businesses from a range sectors working together to improve life in Bolton, we need your support to help reduce our emissions and become a greener society.

As a Social Enterprise ourselves we exist, not only to deliver our brilliant support and services, but to do it in a way that makes a difference to the people and places we work with and in – we call it our “Positive Change”.

We’re delighted that all our hard work, creating a great place to work at Starts with you, has been recognised by GM Good Employment Charter as we achieve Official Supporter status!

We are delighted to announce that our Managing Director, Hayley has been selected as one of sixteen representatives of a new advisory group.

As a Bolton and Greater Manchester based Social Enterprise, SWY is committed to empowering people to make a positive difference and doing business with integrity, especially in our local communities.