Together we build the future
Helping small business owners is something we at Qred do every day. By getting involved in the operations and offering a variety of services, entrepreneurs have the opportunity to create growth in their companies. All so they can focus on what they really care about - their businesses. This is our passion and right now we are contributing to the growth of more than 12,000 small businesses. In this way, we create 10 jobs a day, 7 days a week.
We want to push
Change where we can
This is what we do to improve society, one step at a time.
Creating more jobs for small business owners
Empowering the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
Stop poverty - once and for all
Actively work on measures to reduce climate impact
Hand in hand
Hand in Hand works to educate, mainly young people
and female, exposed through a focus on entrepreneurship. Through knowledge and will, businesses can be started, developed, and poverty will no longer become everyday life.
Read more about how Hand in Hand works here.
Read more about our partnership with Hand in Hand
Here, Hand in Hand works to help people create and influence their own living conditions - with their own power, but also with a little help from us. Both Qred and Hand in Hand are convinced that entrepreneurship is the way out of poverty.
Together we have sponsored Ngusishi Village in Kenya. In the village, residents have been taught how to run and develop their own businesses, something that has made Ngusishi Village full of entrepreneurs who are now completely self-sufficient.
- Over 350 members of the village received instruction
- 218 businesses started and 339 jobs created.
- Of these mentored entrepreneurs, 4/5 are women.
Women are central to development work as they have an important social and economic impact on both the family and society. Studies shows that women spend 90% of their income on the family, therefore their development and education is one of the solutions in the fight against poverty. By providing long-term solutions such as education and networking, we are one step closer to ending poverty. Meet Faith living in Ngusishi:
Faith Kinya tells how she saw life as a challenge full of worries about both food and finances. Today it's a different story, with education as the starting point and assertiveness as the end product. Faith has become a true entrepreneur and daily develops her business as a farmer.
Watch Hand in Hands video If you want to know more about their vision.
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Qred wants to continue driving change and has therefore chosen to continue its partnership with Hand in Hand and their vision of fighting poverty in the long term through teaching entrepreneurship. Ngusishi Village has proven itself by becoming fully independent, but much of the population of Meru Province in which the village is located is still unemployed.
Therefore, Qred sponsors the village of Mutunyi Village which is located in the same province of Kenya. At present, Mutunyi Village is made up of small-scale farmers who often feel a concern about food and money. With Hand in Hand, they will learn how to run and develop businesses. This gives the inhabitants of the village the opportunity to take control of their finances and their lives, and thus also allows them to become fully independent.
Growth Stockholm
Growth Stockholm was founded to give more local small businesses the opportunity to develop as entrepreneurs. By expanding their operations, more jobs can be created and integration increased.
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Read more about our collaboration with Growth Stockholm
Unemployment and alienation are common in suburbs around Stockholm. This is why the Stockholm Growth Foundation exists.
In its work, Growth Stockholm wants to support local small business owners in the business community to be able to develop their operations. By bringing in established players and leaders from the business world As advisors, companies can receive support in areas where there is currently a lack of capacity, knowledge and skills.
When small entrepreneurs can receive support in areas such as recruitment, inclusion in society can increase, and more people will have the opportunity to enter the labour market through the creation of new jobs. We at Qred know that entrepreneurship is the key to more jobs, and together with Growth Stockholm, more small businesses now have the opportunity to succeed.
“Support for small businesses and their entrepreneurs - the key to more jobs and greater inclusion”
It was in our shared perception of the importance of entrepreneurs in society that the collaboration between Growth Stockholm and Qred took off. Among other things, we will assist with broader advice, dedicated mentoring and much more, all to help smaller businesses take the next step in their operations.
In 3.5 years, more than 530 jobs have been created through Growth Stockholm. The target is over 1000 jobs in 5 years.
Of course, we want to be there and support so here we go! 💚
Essay Scholarship
Qred offers a scholarship once a year in order to highlight issues related to small business owners and entrepreneurship. It involves research with innovative questions about the entrepreneurial industries in which Qred operates. Last year 30,000 essays were written, of which only 27pc are about small business owners. Now we turn to students at bachelor's or master's level to give entrepreneurs the spotlight.
Want to know more? Read here.
Breakit Impact Challenge
For us at Qred, sustainability is important. Becoming a more climate-smart player is therefore high on our list for acting more sustainably. In 2019 and 2020, we therefore participated in the BreakIt Impact Challenge, where companies adopt different challenges for five weeks to become more climate-smart. The various stages were:
Green suppliers
Sustainable business model
Sustainable workplace
Climate Compensation Station
