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TESTIMONIALS
Susan Benjamin:
This is an excellent programme for startups who face so many challenges and limited budgets
Matt Robinson:
Excellent Day, Interesting Anecdotes, Energetic Delivery
John Hynes:
It’s nice to hear from a man who has done the walk and is able to talk the talk
Clare Brynley-Jones:
Great day – great setting, really interesting and reassuring
Ross Wallin, Pitcher and Piano:
Great Venue, charismatic presenter and good time slots
Phillip Gibbs, Synergy Linx Ltd:
Doug Richard is great, open and has a great sense of humour. Phil Wilkinson was a very valuable addition
Vanessa Knight, 100 Percent Art:
Brilliant, loved the interactive approach with audience to give real on-the-spot examples
Joanna Anthony:
A positive day which I can highly recommend to others
Featured Entrepreneurs
Chester Mojay-Sinclare – Alive and Giving
A&G is an innovative charity fundraising website designed to encourage and facilitate considered, long-term giving. The site is a place where you can find a charity that suits you in three easy steps: 1 – Search, for charities that match what you are looking for based on: keywords, sector and location. 2 – Compare, the matching results based on digestible financial/operational information taken from the charities annual reports, e.g. admin and fundraising costs. 3 – Donate, online within seconds.
Please check us out at www.AliveandGiving.com for more info and to register your interest.
Sally Broom – Tripbod
A basic agency model connecting travellers (online only) to vetted local experts in theirdestination. The local experts are called Tripbods. Via a private Trip Planning page(incorporating chat, calendar and mapping functionalities) the Tripbod provides localtravel advice and tips. The company charges a fee to the traveller and splits this with thelocal ‘Tripbod’, whereby the Tripbod earns the majority portion of the revenue.
Dr. Brad Backus – Audio3 Ltd.
Audio3 Ltd. has created the world’s smallest and easiest to use noise dosimeter and the first such device aimed at the entertainment industry and musicians. There are currently more than 150,000 student orchestral musicians at 269 conservatoires and 500 music departments plus 20,000 professional classical musicians from 480 orchestras working in Europe. Studies indicate that as many as 15% of these may go on to have noise-related hearing losses that will affect their quality of life and professional career. In April 2008 noise regulations that have been in force for industry have also come into force for these musicians and the entertainment industry but current devices that measure the required noise dose are geared toward industrial uses and are not easy for individuals to use. The Audio3 soundBadge is the first device to specifically target this market, allowing musicians and people working in the entertainment industry to have a simpler and more cost effective way to comply with the new regulations. Audio3 has a comprehensive and experienced team that consolidates business acumen, access to specific sales channels, industry and technical knowledge, and design and manufacture skills. We intend to sell directly to music conservatoires at first with a textbook model.
Vinnie Morgan – Mango Creative Studio Ltd
Mango studio is a strategic digital agency that specialise in leisure management systems for the activity and experience industry. The studio has developed the best innovative technology specifically for activity centres in the UK. This includes developing mobile applications that interact with BBC big screens and online web experiences that allow thrill seeking customers to book their activity or adventure at ease.
Mango Studio started from very small beginnings and has progressed to its current position through the sheer hard work and determination of its staff. We have ambitious plans for the future of the company and behind these lies the determination to make it work and the knowledge that we can do it. We push the business forwards to greater heights by developing our technologies and improving the products and services we offer. The success of Mango Studio now, and in the future, is founded on the ambitions and passion of the people behind it who constantly aspire to drive it forwards.
We experience a high demand for our services and we believe we can become the market leader in what we do, ahead of our competition. The studio takes a very personal approach to working practices and truly value the people involved, both clients and staff. we differ from competitors by being innovative, customer focussed and introducing new exciting technologies to our clients. Clients include BBC, SphereMania and Nottinghamshire County Council.
For more information please visit our website at www.mangostudio.eu
Tom Rippin – Founder, On Purpose
On Purpose is a new leadership programme for the next generation of high-flyers who will use the power of business to make a difference in the world. Today’s talent are tomorrow’s leaders who will help solve society’s biggest problems. We believe that if we find the most inspiring people, provide them with the right experience and give them world-class training, then great things will happen. Over one year, On Purpose provides its ‘Associates’ with two full-time, paid placements and complements this with a training programme delivered on Friday afternoons by professionals from a wide range of private, social enterprise and third sector organisations.
Sue Acton, Director, Bubble and Balm
Bubble & Balm was one of the first companies in the UK to offer Fairtrade certified bath and body products. Our range is also natural and we use recycled packaging. The company is a for profit social enterprise. Our aspiration is to become a household beauty brand.
@bubbleandbalm
Darren Taylor, Owner, Eco Computer Systems
ECO Computer Systems is an innovative social enterprise created to benefit our planet and our children. We offer IT recycling and IT refurbishment facilities to householders, businesses of all sizes, local authorities, schools and not-for-profit organisations.
- offer IT hardware collection, IT refurbishment and IT recycling facilities to local businesses
- offer IT recycling drop off points for unwanted PCs, printers and scanners to local residents so that the IT can be recycled
- provide basic IT skills training to unemployed and low income families
- provide training on recycling and how to reduce CO2 emissions to local communities
- provide each person attending IT training with a refurbished PC to take home and keep
- supply recycled PCs computers to not-for-profit organisations
- help business and not-for-profit organisations to reduce CO2 emissions in the workplace
- sell on all refurbished PCs that are not required for training to enable our business to make a profit and therefore ensure our long term sustainability
- significantly reduce CO2 emissions, by reducing the number of new PCs which need to be manufactured to satisfy demand
We have also managed to make surplus profits, which we then run other community projects, We have a community radio in our shop, where we train local people and youth. All the people trained have their own shows.
Philippa White, T.I.E
The International Exchange (TIE) specialises in providing transformational learning and development opportunities for communications professionals so that they can build the necessary skills and competencies for advancement. This is achieved through a short-term assignment with a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) or social business in the developing world. The assignment is custom designed to develop the professional’s leadership skills whilst simultaneously leveraging their business experience for the benefit of the NGO and its local community.
Through a TIE placement:
- communications companies are able to prepare corporate managers with the competencies for advancement and the interpersonal realities of global business, as well as increase morale, recruitment, retention and motivation of employees.
- NGOs are able improve their communication practices which in turn help increase the voices of target groups, raise awareness of their organisation and the services they provide, help change the behaviour of people within the local communities and assist in raising future finances.
- communication professionals get an exposure to and a better understanding of bigger picture communication problems, build confidence to take on new roles and responsibilities within communications, build cross-cultural and cross-discipline understanding and sensitivity, learn more about a BRIC country, and learn how to use creativity and communications with limited resources.
www.theinternationalexchange.co.uk
Henry Buckley, Managing Director & JJ Harding, Business Development Director, JogPost
JogPost is a media distribution company that delivers leaflets and all sorts of other media door to door and business to business all over London and the surrounding areas. They employ personal trainers, ex-military personnel, semi professional athletes, and other extremely fit and healthy individuals to jog around the streets delivering their clients marketing materials. JogPost is the only company that has it’s distribution people jog, this means they can deliver twice as quickly as any other company in the industry. This in turn means their margins are higher and they can provide a much better service than anyone else. There are many ways in which they provide a much better service, these include; full time supervisors for the distributors (they are the only company to provide this service), use of the most expensive mapping and report building software on the market, they are the only company to pay their staff more than minimum wage so have a much higher calibre of worker who are motivated to do a good job and do, vigorous back checking systems, pedometers to measure speed of distributors, and for every 1000 leaflets the deliver they even plant a tree. JogPost is the new age of leaflet distribution, they are quite simply the only choice for your media distribution
@JogPost
Kevin Matthew. Founder, Fitness For Your Future
FFF are an organisation that provide accessible and affordable mind and body programmes to all age groups.
Our extremely successful programmes were developed in 2005 as a result of research conducted on various populations of people, with the sole aim of improving the quality of life people experience.
We hope you will agree that our programmes lead the way as the most innovative and impact driven programmes that are out there today!
Thanks to the backing of our partners in the public and private sector our programmes are reaching more and more people and are continually expanding.
If you wish to know more, whether you are a parent, child, health professional or potential partner (funding or delivery), please contact us by email or phone to speak to one of our professionals.
Our FFF programmes cater for all age groups and address the issues of increased obesity and mental health. We work in schools, colleges, hospitals and local facilities and with many professional bodies including the National Health Service (NHS) and Primary Care Trusts (PCT).
www.fitnessforyourfuture.co.uk
Mark Davies, Founder, Solar Legacy
Solar Legacy C.I.C. is a not for profit members organisation.
The organisation has been set up to find ways of fighting climate change by introducing people to clean renewable energy both in the United Kingdom and in countries in the developing world.
We are setting up an electricity co-operative in the United Kingdom and we are developing plans to build a large scale solar / wind, power generating facility. The profits from this facility will be used to provide free solar power generating equipment to our members (as decided by a board of our volunteers)
We are currently working on projects to plant millions of trees across the developing world. We are working closely with other organisations and are benefitting these projects by raising the funds for tree planting and by providing free solar powered equipment to the people in these developing world countries who are planting the trees. We like to take a hands-on approach and prefer to work on self-help projects where we are not simply handing over money to other people but giving them training and providing them with seeds and equipment and support while they grow the trees. The solar powered equipment benefits the people directly who are helping to plant the trees and helps with education and agriculture amongst other things.
As part of our projects to raise public awareness of climate change and to raise funds for tree planting projects, we have partnered with a number of other companies to bring you products and services which are related to energy saving or tackling climate change. We attach some kind of tree planting initiative to all of these products and services. For example if you purchase a commercial air conditioning system from one of our partners, we will be given the funds to plant enough trees to absorb at least the equivalent amount of annual CO2 emissions as those emitted from the building to which it is attached.
We are committed to running projects for the community and we are open to all members who wish to become involved in running the organisation or forming and implementing its policies. To find out more about the benefits of joining our organisation, how to become involved in our work or in running the organisation, and how to subscribe to our annual membership, please visit:
Samantha Kelly
Samantha Kelly has the intention to start a Social Enterprise in Entrepreneurship for Ex-Offenders. Having worked within prison as a Registered Nurse and applied certain tools and techniques from her own personal development journey, Samantha has witnessed that introducing a change of perception, is the beginning of transforming a limited mindset and therefore the thoughts and actions that create the results in our lives.
Philippa Frankl, Founder Street Kids International
Street Kids International is a charity which develops and disseminates innovative training and tools to give street kids around the world the knowledge, skills and opportunities to make a better life for themselves. We work with a global network of partners to deliver locally relevant, innovative workshops using award winning animations that engage kids about entrepreneurship and support them to build better lives for themselves and contribute to their local economy. For more information visit:
