Collaboration: Business resources from the British Library
We’re collaborating with the British Library to make support more widely available for entrepreneurs and business owners, at every stage in the lifecycle of a business.
Your local Business & IP Centre can provide you with help and a range of free resources to start and run successful businesses, and a programme of regular workshops and events.
Start-Up Day 2019
Start-up Day is a day of free talks, expert workshops and tailored advice designed to get your business idea off to a flying start.
Start-Up Day 2019 opening address
The opening address was given by Susan Davies, Managing Director of Santander Business.
How to start-up your business on a shoestring
This panel is about How to start-up on a shoestring, with Alice Mayor, founder of We Built This City, Sam Colwill, founder of BathroomsByDesign and Pip Murray, founder of Pip & Nut, moderated panel with Santander.
How to build your business without burning yourself out
This panel is about How to build your business without burning yourself out, presented by Dane Krambergar from Mind (Mental Health at Work Campaign) and Julie Deane OBE, Business & IP Centre Entrepreneur in Residence and founder of Cambridge Satchel Company.
How to use networks to build your business
This panel is about How to use networks to build your business, with Alison Cork, founder of Make It Your Business and Alison at Home, Naudia Salmon, founder and inventor of We Drifters and Ken Davey, founder and MD of the Smarter Group of Companies™, moderated by Lisa Bent.
At every stage in the lifecycle of a business, entrepreneurs and business owners will have times when they need support and guidance. We’ve been providing some of this support through Breakthrough since 2011, and now we’re working with the British Library’s network of Business & IP (intellectual property) Centres to make that support even more widely available.
The British Library Business & IP Centre National Network provides entrepreneurs and SMEs across the UK with free access to databases, market research, journals, directories and reports worth thousands of pounds. There’s a programme of free and low-cost events and workshops on a range of topics including business planning, marketing and intellectual property, all delivered in the familiar surroundings of city libraries.
Business & IP Centres are physical hubs, providing shared workspace in existing library buildings, with manned reception desks and friendly staff on hand to guide people to the help and resources that they need to start and run successful businesses. The centres are uniquely placed to help people to protect and commercialise their ideas by giving them the skills, knowledge and confidence to do so in a trusted and accessible place, and anyone can walk into a centre to seek help or use the resources.
Through our collaboration with the Business & IP Centre network we’ll be able to help even more people and businesses prosper at the times that matter most to them and from the minute they have that first spark of an idea.
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