Update: Sophia Hub Redbridge

Ros Southern writes:

"Hi there - here's the blogs and news this week

COME TO THE LAUNCH OF THE SOPHIA HUBS NETWORK

Our Sophia Hubs launch is on Tuesday evening at 6pm by Bank Station - do come, info here

ENTREPRENEUR'S CLUB

Info on the session this week with Amanda Simpson and Excel - click here

Info on the next session, Tuesday week, 'start with the end in mind' with Celestine Ekpenyong click here

TIMEBANK NEWS

We've reached 100 members! For info on what's been happening and how to get a free haircut click here!

REDBRIDGE NEWS

We're in the Ilford Recorder this week! Click here to read all about it :)

Joining-The-Dots-Of-The-Week - big success with Nat West bank and community support for business! Read about it here

Redbridge Chamber CHRISTMAS DINNER - you are invited!! Click here

There is a continuing and fab programme of support for business at Enterprise Desk. Click here for info

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NEWS

You can buy a bike Saturday 10-3 from Ilford Recyles. Bike sale. click here for info

SOPHIA COURSE

Want to see what's going on and meet the participants? Click here

WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR US

Get your friends and contacts to Like our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter, contact me to receive this weekly email, pass on information, write a guest blog. :)

Have a good weekend,

Ros Southern

Coordinator, Sophia Hubs Redbridge
E: ros.southern@sophiahubs.com M 07707 460309 / 0208 590 2568 (answer phone)
T: @sophiahubs7k F: Sophia Hubs Seven Kings (please follow us and Like us!)"

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Michael Kiwanuka - Rest.

Update: Sophia Hub Redbridge

Ros Southern writes:

'Hi there - welcome to new people in this mailing who I met at Redbridge hub opening on Wednesday :)

News for this week:

We have a fabulous speaker at enterprise club on Tuesday 13th October - Prodeepta who gave up teaching to become a photojournalist and among other things makes children's books with Benjamin Zephaniah. Read about it here.

It's Social Saturday tomorrow - celebrating social enterprise - so if you don't know how to celebrate it, try buying a recycled bike in Ilford 10-2pm! Click here for info on Ilford Recycles.

Also Saturday/Sunday the launch of Cranbrook Centre in Valentines Park takes place - a creative collaboration with two charities and East London radio to reduce business costs. Read about it here.

To read about the fantastic launch of Redbridge hub and the 24/7 access to COBRA business database click here for info. And advance notice we are running a training on Tuesday lunchtime 27th October.

To see our Timebank SWAP OF THE WEEK, with start-ups helping each other's business, click here :)

To see the bonaza list of start-up and business events in Redbridge in October, click here

Thanks so much to Nnenna Anyanwu for being speaker at our enterprise club last week - to see her business MOT tips click here

No guest start-up blog this week folks - please do send in your news and I will promote you!!!

We are updating our Help & Support page on website - please take a look and see what's missing.

Have a good weekend,

Ros Southern
Coordinator, Sophia Hubs Redbridge
E: ros.southern@sophiahubs.com M 07707 460309 / 0208 590 2568 (answer phone)
T: @sophiahubs7k F: Sophia Hubs Seven Kings (please follow us and Like us!)'

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Bee Gees - My World.

Sophia Hub Seven Kings update

Ros Southern writes:

"Hi there - here's the news and updates for this coming week or so...

Enterprise club on Tuesday will be with Tahir Mahmud on a SWOT analysis of your business (he's been helping me to do a SWOT of the enterprise club!) click here for info.

Please vote for Keith Young of Ilford Recycles for Guardian sustainable business award - unsung hero. Click here for the link and how we helped him with this nomination!

There's ongoing fabulous workshops and support for businesses through the ECHO Timbank. You pay with your ECHOs to join in (no cost, only your hours). Info here.

For East London Small Business workshops in April/May click here and for the latest East London Radio business programme too.

For info on grants currently available for social/community/environmental businesses, click here.

The next Timebank skills swap in on Friday 24th April, day-time. We are working on the programme this week. Please let us know what you want to offer or help that you want. Info here.

Thanks to Clive for leading a deep enterprise club last week - write up by Stephanie is here.

Please do keep in touch and I hope to see many of you this week,

Best wishes,

Ros Southern, Coordinator, Sophia Hubs Seven Kings

M: 07707 460309 T: 0208 590 2568
ros.southern@sophiahubs.com
T: @sophiahubs7k FB: Sophia Hubs Seven Kings blog: https://sophiahubs7k.wordpress.com/
c/o St Johns Church, St Johns Road, Seven Kings, IG2 7BB."

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Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Old Crow Medicine Show - This Train Is Bound For Glory.

Update: Sophia Hub Seven Kings

Ros Southern writes:

'Here's the weekly news...

The speaker at the enterprise club on Tuesday is dynamic business woman Debbie Skeete who runs a childcare consultancy business and online resources. More info here.

The Chamber of Commerce are running a business networking and comedy night and I would love to get a Sophia Hubs table together. More info here.

Social enterprise Recycles Ilford have a spring sale of their refurbished bikes tomorrow (Saturday). And you can look at the re-used paint supplies. More info here

News on a new green enterprise about to start - eco decorator Bill Gallagher. Info here

Update on the Sophia course after session 2 of 4. Local start-ups attending. Info here.

Interesting and practical session at enterprise club last Tuesday on business canvas model. Info here

Finally, an exciting new enterprise is on its way in Ilford - East London Radio, Redbridge Music Lounge and Asnet are taking over the bowling green in Valentines Park(near the Melbourne Road entrance) as a community space. There is a fundraising quiz and curry night on Monday 23rd March. Shall we have a Sophia Hubs table if so contact me. Otherwise contact Diane on 07969 341943

As always, please spread the word about our Facebook page and Twitter address (see below)

Best wishes,

Ros Southern, Coordinator, Sophia Hubs Seven Kings
M: 07707 460309 T: 0208 590 2568
ros.southern@sophiahubs.com
T: @sophiahubs7k FB: Sophia Hubs Seven Kings blog: https://sophiahubs7k.wordpress.com/
c/o St Johns Church, St Johns Road, Seven Kings, IG2 7BB'

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77s - Not A Pretty Picture.

Sophia Hub update

Ros Southern writes:

Our speaker at the enterprise club tomorrow (Tuesday 16th December) at 12.45 is the inspiring entrepreneur Nicky Das of Sathguru Plumbing supplies, just a few paces from St Johns. See what she is going to be talking about and how it will help your start-up business. The shop has been running for 4 years and has a community heart.

Our speaker last week was Rakesh Rootsman Rak. See the 3 big challenges he set start-ups for a sustainable and future-proofed business.

Good news about an expanding green enterprise - Recycles Ilford now added paint to bikes and more expansions being discussed. Read about it here.

Just finished our last 2014 Sophia ACE course (Active Citizens and Entrepreneurs) and its getting better and better. Read about it here. More courses will take place in 2015.

We are proud to have had such a great range of volunteer business speakers in 2014. See the list and their contact details. Thank you all so much.

Don't forget there is a market in Ilford Town Centre on 23rd December. Info here.

Just to let you know there will not be an enterprise club on 23rd but there will be one on 30th. Aidan Ward (Sophia Hubs director) will be presenting a business model that we will be encouraging start-ups to use in 2015 - the business canvas model.

Finally, please pass on the word for Rashida (due to change in business direction) that vastly reduced massage chairs are on offer.

Oh, and if you want some delicious. home made chutneys and Caribbean sauces for Christmas pressies, Lynette will have supplies at the enterprise club tomorrow. :-)

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The Jam - In The City.

Sophia Hub update

Ros Southern writes:

I had a holiday last week and it was great that things continued so well without me - thanks Stephanie and Aidan!

At the Tuesday Enterprise lunchtime club tomorrow we have Seven Kings start-up Angelique Parvez speaking. D-Style, a dance fitness and Bollywood startup started trading 2 years ago and has created a new dance product with impressive contracts with Vison and major gyms. Angelque is also a lecturer at UEL on business strategy. Find out more about what she will talk about and her big Bollywood contract here.

The Sophia enterpreneur course is running twice before Christmas and the next course starts this coming Friday. Please consider people that you think would benefit from an uplifting community course with a start-your-own-business and active citizen twist. It's free. Please help us fill all 12 seats! More info here.

Interest is mounting for our anniversary event on Tuesday 30th September at 5.45-8.30 next week! We expect a wide range of start ups, local business and local community members to be there for an inspirational meeting with plenty of networking opportunities. More info here;

Please get in touch if you want to present your start-up in some way at the Pop Up Business Hub shop in the Ilford Exchange in October. This is a very exciting pilot and more info here. 5 of our start-ups have offered to run sessions so far - we have space for plenty more!

Thanks so much to Keith Young of Ilford Recycles for a useful enterprise session last week.

If the links don't work, all the information is on my blog at this address: http://sophiahubs7k.wordpress.com/.

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Alice Cooper - Cleansed by Fire.

Sophia Hub update

Ros Southern writes:

"Firstly there is a fabulous pilot business hub on the top floor of the Exchange in Ilford in the month of October and Sophia Hubs, Seven Kings, is a partner. This has been spearheaded by Work Redbridge and Vision with other partners including Chamber of Commerce, Redbridge Insitute, Redbridge College and the Volunteer Centre. Tuesday is Sophia Hubs day! We will run our lunch time enterprise club there plus offer a range of taster sessions and promotinal opportunities for our start-ups. More information here.

Our first anniversary celebration event on Tuesday 30th September is also an important date for your diaries. We will bring together the start-ups we have been working with, the business community and speakers that have been supporting us and community/faith groups. There will be rich conversation, important networking and a time to reflect on the needs of the community. 5.45 - 8.30. Flyer here - please pass on.

Our enterprise club speaker on Tuesday next week (16th September) will be Keith Young of Ilford Recycles. This is a project that brings in most income through trading but also relies on grant funding. Keith will share his knowledge gained from 1 year of operation, his problems of getting organised with paper work and finding premises. Photo and more info here.

Thanks so much to our speaker this week - Atacan Mercer - whose advice was to keep a beginners mind. A very successful design start-up which was inspiring to hear about and helpful. Followed by networking as always and more deals were brokered! Photo and info here

Timebank update: There are 40 people registered and lots of interest. 17 hours have been officially traded but it is taking a while to sort out quick and effective registration and following up of references. It will be a vibrant economy very soon. Thank you for your patience and interest.

And finally, the first big delivery of re-used paint has gone to .... Parkside Community Association. This is part of a partnership with Forest Recycling Project in Waltham Forest to promote recycling and kick start green businesses in Redbridge. There's lots more free paint going. Please contact me or or find out more information here."

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Jon Foreman - Broken From The Start.