We are organising fun social events for Londoners in there 20s and 30s allowing them to mingle and make new friends. Our events will help us fund our August 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Production.

IMPROVING BUSINESS IN NORTH LONDON Do you want to grow your business in North London? The NLCC could help you.Our aim and purpose is: “To improve business performance in North London”. The North London Chamber of Commerce (NLCC) works for businesses’ in North London. The NLCC offers a support service to local businesses by providing them with access to training and development opportunities, up to date business information, marketing opportunities and much more. With over 3500 business contacts currently, we aim to grow this in the following year. Working with businesses from all sectors, of all sizes we ensure that we have regular contact with the business community. To enable you to access this support, we invite you to join the North London Chamber of Commerce as a member. The opportunities and benefits that membership offers’ to businesses is invaluable. Don’t worry if you can’t commit at present, you can start by signing up to our e-newsletter the ‘Business Leader’ where you will receive useful updates about issues that may affect your business. Alternatively, you can book to come along to one of our events and meet with us in person, where you will not only receive some useful information, …

Just Networking is a networking group established in 2004 to help business people connect with other business people. No membership is required and anyone can attend the small networking focussed events.

www.londonb2b.net provides a network to develop business and business contacts as well as a range of seminars and workshops based on subjects asked for by its members. Previous seminars have been on marketing, IT, book keeping and increasing profits. www.londonb2b.net put on 9 successful events in 2007 after its inception in September, all were well attended, visit the website to register or for more information. www.LondonB2B.net is a not for profit cluster association made up of businesses located in London South Central (Wandsworth, Lambeth and Southwark) that operate in the business to business (B2B) market. Our key goal is to deliver a range of support services to the B2B cluster in London South Central that results in job growth, new firms being set up and increased prosperity.

The London Networking Live event series will give you the chance to network on a regular basis at venues across London. Our format is simple, it’s no-nonsense networking without gimmicks. Our marketing attracts a large number of business professionals, committed to growing their businesses through networking. More about the format: London Networking Live is pure networking. After a brief introduction from our event manager the networking begins. London Networking Live events are all standing to enable effective networking. Once the event starts people will approach you or vice-versa. We advise you bring a ready supply of business cards or leaflets and have a pre-prepared description of your business to keep the networking flowing smoothly. Every 15 minutes or so our hosts will remind participants to move on to the next person to keep the networking momentum. Because the format is very relaxed there are not formal breaks and you can stop at any point if you require refreshments etc. Events are designed to last for around 2 hours by which time you will have met and publicised your business to most of the other participants.

The Real Business Women’s Network (RBWN) offers networking in a supportive, non-competitive environment where business women can not only promote their businesses but learn from and inspire each other. There are currently three groups running in South London - Wimbledon, Kingston & Richmond and Clapham & Wandsworth which hold bi-monthly meetings for members and guests. Please visit our website to find out all our meeting dates.

Entrepreneurs World Ltd was established in 2007 to provide a forum where owners of mid-sized companies (the MEs in SMEs), can make connections with other like-minded business- people and entrepreneurs, to exchange ideas, seek and give advice and support, and collectively develop and promote a spirit of entrepreneurialism amongst the UK business community. From our experience in networking over many years, the directors of Entrepreneurs World have identified a gap in the market nationally and internationally for a networking organisation that delivers high quality services directed specifically at business owners and decision makers of medium-sized companies, where they can be certain that they will be able to meet and interact with their peers.

The Precious network is a network aimed at Women of Colour in the UK and beyond! This is the only network of its kind, bringing together exceptional women of colour, who are making waves as independent, entrepreneurial, dynamic ground-breakers. Our aim is to profile and celebrate the professional and entrepreneurial achievements of women of colour in the UK. We host a number of business and social events throughout the year and we host The Precious Awards, an annual awards event that celebrates businesswomen. We also work with a range of corporate partners on various projects be it recruitment, events or helping them to showcase their products to our diverse audience. Positive people doing their own thing inspire us. There is so much entrepreneurial talent out there, we want to play our part in exposing it and we hope that people see Precious as a vehicle to global success. If you want to talk to Precious contact me, the Founder, Foluke Akinlose: foluke@preciousonline.co.uk or visit us at www.preciousonline.co.uk

Mosaic offers a different and informal approach to business and social networking enabling like-minded people from different industries the chance to meet once a month in different bars in London. People who have attended the mosaic drinks have always described it as a friendly way to meet new people. Networking is daunting at the best of times, so it’s important to create a space where people feel relaxed and open to meet new people and where they feel they can come on their own. Meeting new people should be fun not a chore! There is a £20 annual membership but come and check it out for free before you chose to join.

patchwork has been set up by Christopher Gavin (director & producer) and Christine Hartland (event/video producer and founder of mosaic). It was launched at the first informal corporate video xmas drinks party on 7th December 2004 at Adam Street. We felt that there hadn’t until now been a suitable forum to catch up with old friends and to meet new contacts within the corporate and film, TV, music videos industries. So enter the world of patchwork…