Shop local and everyone’s a winner. Avoid the crowds and beat the recession this Christmas with Camden’s handy personal shopper gift guide
While you stock up on some original gifts, you and Camden’s local shops, will have a happier Christmas. And you can win £1000! See www.lovecamden.org for how you could win the Golden Ticket
FROM 16th to 20th November, Camden and Islington are throbbing with entrepreneurial events and opportunities to learn, network and be inspired! So why don’t you dive in and take advantage of some, great (often free) events?
KXBF – full listing of events here
Islington Enterprise Week – full details at www.islington.gov.uk/enterpriseweek
British Library Global Entrepreneurship Week – full detail at www.bl.uk/bipc/global
Knowledge Connect – (Camden and London-wide) – full details at www.knowledgeconnect.org.uk
CreateKX – www.createkx.org
AS part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, UCL Advances, in association with the London Borough of Camden,is inviting local business owners and entrepreneurs to A Celebration of Business Support in Camden and the Capital.
Come and see how UCL and Camden are working together to deliver a range of support activities for new entrepreneurs and existing small businesses in Camden and across London, made all the more important by the economic downturn. This event will bring together entrepreneurs, small business managers, support providers and funding agencies! Do you run a small business? Are you thinking of starting one? Just starting out with a new idea? In need of support? Want help with funding, business advice, technical problems or office space? Then this event is for you! The hosts will also mark the official launch of two new business support projects managed by UCL Advances!
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Thursday 19 November at UCL – RSVP by 17 November by registering at www.supportcelebration.eventbrite.com
Venue: Engineering Café , University College London , Malet Place (off Torrington Place) , London, WC1E 6BT
BRITISH Sausage Week is being celebrated in style at Kings Place’s Rotunda Bar and Restaurant from 2nd-8th of November. Every day Rotunda will proudly feature delicious British sausage dishes for under a tenner! Their chef Ian Green has created a hearty menu full of mouth-watering British sausage dishes, and customers will have the opportunity to try a different sausage dish every day. They are also running a competition to guess the length of Rotunda’s very special sausage, and if you’re the winner, you get to take it home! To participate, just come to rotunda and take a guess.
The Rotunda Bar & Restaurant, Kings Place, 90 York Way N1
GLOBAL Entrepreneurship Week starts on 16th November and the team at the Business and IP Centre at the British Library have a full schedule of seminars, breakfast presentations, workshops and networking events to keep you inspired and connected. For full details and to book go to www.bl.uk/bipc/global
BEN Kinsella was knifed to death on Sunday 29th June 2008. He was out celebrating the end of his GCSEs when he was murdered but never got to find out that he had passed the exams with a string of A-grades including an ‘A’ for art, providing him with the springboard he needed to realise his ambition of becoming a graphic designer
Copenhagen Youth Project (CYP) were asked by his grieving family to mount a show featuring the outstandingly talented work produced by Ben, who was a CYP member. The show forms part of CYP’s ongoing programme of exhibitions and social education for over 400 local young people in the King’s Cross/Copenhagen area every year, including those who are disadvantaged and vulnerable. CYP uses creative work to examine and challenge the culture that gives rise to knife crime. This cultural programme is part-funded by the City Bridge Trust, Central St Martin’s School of Art and the Home Office, and needs further funds for CYP to build on and progress the work
You are invited to visit the Ben Kinsella: Sketchbook Show, on Tuesday 17th November between 6pm and 8pm. RSVP info@cyproject.org
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