Over the summer we were preparing for the opening of the Sophia Hub pilot at St John's Seven Kings with our office space being redecorated and refitted as well as new office equipment arriving in order to create incubation space plus training and drop-in areas.
The Sophia Hub pilot is open and is beginning to deliver the following:
BUSINESS MENTORING and ENTREPRENEUR TRAINING & COACHING
This would be through free or subsidised coaching offered from business schools and local business people as well as entrepreneur training courses.
INVESTOR CONNECTION
There is a real need for businesses and social enterprises to find investment capital to support growth and be sustainable. One core function of Sophia Hubs is to connect investors with new enterprises. This can be by setting up Dragons Den type "pitch sessions" where several new enterprises pitch their needs to several prospective investors, or by arranging one-to-one meetings between enterprises and investors.
THE SOPHIA COURSE
This reflective and applied developmental course will help young people in particular develop the wisdom perspectives and frameworks which help form the conditions for developing new projects. Topics might include leadership and mentoring, healthy living, compassion, collaboration, self-discipline, personal responsibility, humility, listening, creativity, personal transformation and sustainability.
LOCAL BUSINESS HUB
We want to work with existing local businesses to help improve the environment and communication with other parts of the community for local enterprise.
TIMEBANKS
We see the importance of non-monetary value exchange both to build community and to encourage people to develop their business offer. This has already been seen to work well through Timebanking and we are part of Timebanking UK.
SOPHIA IDEAS EXCHANGE
Ideas exchange may happen through an online community, and through organising seminars and workshops exploring the connections between wisdom and work: Invited speakers will come from various belief systems to dig deeper into the resource of faith and with a range of entrepreneurial approaches.
For more information:
sophiahubs@yahoo.com
020 8590 2568
stjohns7kings.org.uk for the Seven Kings pilot
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