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Social Enterprise 78 DEVELOPING IDEAS How the University shaped new ways of thinking Ketso ® Ketso ® is the first spin-out founded by a female entrepreneur from the University's humanities faculty, as well as being the first spin-out from research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). In the four years since the company was launched, the hands-on toolkit has proved a huge success with organisations, ranging from the Scottish Government Equality and Diversity team, to MerseyCare NHS, to local authorities and over half of the UK's universities. Described as a 'workshop in a bag', Ketso ® provides a range of tools for participants that are designed to ease the exchange of ideas and build a clear picture of the group's thinking on a particular issue. These include coloured shapes that can be built into 'thought-trees' and free workshop plans, making creative engagement available to more people without the need for expensive facilitators. www.ketso.com STORM ® In 2003, Professor Linda Gask and Dr Gill Green created the STORM ® Project with two aims: to research, develop and evaluate STORM ® training packages, and to run a not-for-profit venture that offered STORM ® training packages commercially, nationally and internationally. It was necessary to develop a sustainable business model to allow STORM ® to trade independently of the University and be in-keeping with the Project's philosophy-that 'no one should profit from another person's distress'. Developed as a project in the mid-1990s at the University in response to frontline workers' lack of skills to effectively assess and manage a suicide crisis, STORM ® Skills Training (Community Interest Company) was created in 2012. STORM ® is a social enterprise which provides skills-based self-harm mitigation and suicide postvention training packages to health care, social care, education, criminal justice services and defence forces. It also helps staff develop a postvention strategy; supporting those bereaved by suicide. www.stormskillstraining.com