Enterprise Week is like Christmas morning for budding entrepreneurs in London. Everywhere one looks, members are offering the budding entrepreneurs gift wrapped presents from the UK business glitterati (Martha Fox, James Caan and the Father Christmas of Enterprise himself, Alan Sugar) and a veritable feast of events and happenings sufficient to gourge the most information hungry of entrepreneurs.
Is there too much on offer for one person to fully appreciate? You bet! We probably all think by the end of the week we have over done the “Good Cheer”. But for now my guiding principle is to attend as many events and soak in as much entrepreneurial wisdom and good will as possible. So here is the selection of events held by members that I intend to blag an invite too:
For many members Enterprise Weeks Santa’s Grotto will be located at the British Library where the main event happens on Tuesday evening when Alan Sugar takes the centre stage to give us all a piece of his mind about what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
Meanwhile on the same night Martha Fox the coolest and most attractive of the UK’s enterprise glitterati will be at Floridita in the West End to appropriately launch the very cool Enternship.com.
Thursday sees the launch of the first of NCGE “Flying Start” events for Graduate Entrepreuners at London South Bank University with James Caan as the special guest. Whilst that evening I will be manning a stand at the UCL Enterprise Week celebration where what we lack on Celebrates we make up with wine and good cheer and a grant for new innovative entrepreneurs.
On Friday morning, I hope to pop down to Lambeth’s Young Entrepreneurs Market at the National Theatre to see what kind a business a young person can start for £35.
Finally on Friday evening, I will be attending as the guest of BBV the Park Royal Partnership Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony at Wembley Stadium.
As you can see a busy week but my week is not all about “ligging” on the hospitality of my members for I have meetings lined up with the Department of BIS, Job Centre Plus, the GLA about potentially exciting new developments for the enterprise movement in London. More of which I will reveal next week.
Finally the tender for the Business Link in London Successor contact is expected to be posted on the www.competefor.com website this week. I am sure we will here more about that in future weeks and months.
So to all you members, partners and entrepreneurs: have a Happy Enterprise Week!
