Fund · Elev-Eight Life CIC

Fund the system. Watch it walk on its own.

With, not for.

For grant funders and social investors. We build community-owned businesses, then step back. Your funding builds the system that makes that possible.

The talent was never missing. Access was.

Most help arrives as charity or tourism. Neither leaves a business behind.

We find communities with their own idea, build the business with them, bring the customers, and hand it over. The communities lead. We're the system behind them.

Find.

Communities with an idea and their own leaders.

Incubate.

Product, journey, shop and bookings, built together.

Accelerate.

Customers, partners and markets.

Hand over.

The business is theirs. We step back.

£120,000 over 12 months.

Two parts. Fund in full, or by component.

The system£85,000

Tech, training and team. The engine every community runs on.

Flagship · Funamos£35,000

Land, coaches and kit for the club built on a rubbish dump.

The system that holds it together.

Every journey, product and gift runs on the same three things.

Tech.

£25,000

The platform every community sells through.

Booking, shop and gift-voucher system
A web page and storefront for each community
Digital kits: phones, laptops, data
Payments that land with the community

Training.

£20,000

The School of Elevation.

Free, bilingual, built around a real product
Photography, pricing, bookings, hosting
4 cohorts across Colombia, Ecuador, Kenya
Community trainers paid to teach

Team.

£40,000

The people who hold it together.

3 part-time community coordinators
Operations and partnerships lead
Safeguarding lead and training
Reporting to funders and communities

Juan + Mónica · Funamos

Flagship: Funamos. £35,000.

A football club families built on a former rubbish dump. Now they want to own the ground it stands on.

Land deposit

£20,000

Towards a permanent home for the pitch.

Coaches paid

£10,000

Local coaches paid for every session for a year.

Kit + equipment

£5,000

Boots, balls, nets and kits for 40 players.

Meet Funamos →

What changes in 12 months.

community-led journeys run in 2027

community businesses selling online

community members trained by the School

£80k+

earned directly by communities in year one

You see every pound land.

Built to stop needing us.

Each community business has a named owner, its own income and its own customers. When it runs without our system, we step back and the funding moves to the next community.