Social Venture Building

with a sting

We are flipping the script on social impact.

We build social ventures for systems change, creating the vehicles funders need to decentralise, redistribute and re-localise economic power and sovereignty. To both build and fund the foundations of a regenerative future.

Because doing more good inside the same system changes nothing.

Good intentions get worn down. Strong ideas get quietly co-opted. Communities that mattered get hollowed out, not by malice, but because of how we fund and own things.

What we do

We turn good intentions into robust, systemic ventures, with regenerative and redistributive practice built in from day one, so the mission is protected by how it's built.

Venture building for systemic change

Helping social venture builders turn good intentions into robust, transformative organisations that can take the pressure of leading systems change.

Venture strategy and business-model design
Regenerative and redistributive practice from day one
Mentoring, coaching and client representation

Economic models that work differently

We're specialists in embedding regenerative, redistributive and participatory practice into how organisations create, own and distribute value.

Ownership and value-flow design that keeps value local
Testing which models reach true systemic change
Theory of change tied to real financial need

The conditions for alternatives to thrive

Working with funders, founders and institutions so promising ventures can access capital and build partnerships for wholesale transformation.

Social venture ecosystem development
Co-designing funding suited to early, systemic innovation
Re-localisation and community wealth-building

Community Wealth

Value belongs where it's made, and should stay there.

Participatory Design

The people for whom something is meant should shape it.

Real Guidance

Enterprise should be bottom-up, but no one should have to build it alone.

Protection by Design

A mission should be protected by how it's built, not by good intentions.

Meet Jamie

Hi, I’m Jamie, founder of Make Honey Ventures. I build early-stage ventures and develop the conditions for capital to drive systemic change. My work brings together venture building, systemic financing and regenerative economics to help create businesses and economic systems fit for the future.

I’ve helped build an early UK B Corp from the ground up, contributed to securing seven-figure impact investment, led circular design innovation at scale and worked with organisations including Levi Strauss & Co., Central Saint Martins, the London School of Economics and Doughnut Economics Action Lab.

Today, I work with founders to turn ambitious ideas for systemic change into fundable, resilient ventures. My advisory work has helped generate hundreds of thousands in pre-funding revenue, secure grant funding and unlock mission-aligned investments.

Through Make Honey Ventures, I’m tackling a bigger question: how do we build ventures that succeed without reproducing the extractive systems they exist to change? I’m developing the tools, models and shared infrastructure to help founders build alternatives and enable those alternatives to scale beyond individual businesses.

50+

Founders Supported

1.5m+

Funding Unlocked

Why?

Jamie kept watching good things get worn down, great intentions fail, and outside interests co-opt fantastic ideas that could otherwise have made a difference. He saw communities that mattered to people slowly hollowed out, not because anyone set out to break them, but because the way we fund and own things pulls value to the centre and leaves the edges to compete for the crumbs.

For a long time he thought the answer was to do more good inside that system. It isn’t. That’s true whether you’re starting from nothing or already building something and feeling it pulled off course. This is why Make Honey Ventures works with early-stage founders, so it can help before extractive capitalism sets in.