LJ - London Creative Labs

Startup Brixton — Let's Get Brixton Working!

A spark of hope in dismal times — Starting Jan 2012

More about Skills Camps

Skills Camps — Where Career Coaches Are Discovered

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Info week: Undecided? Find out more in person at various local hotspots

Skills Camps are a new and unique approach to discovering unused human potential:

Training career coaches to discover local unused transferrable skills
Specifically designed courses for the hard to reach, long term unemployed/ people on benefits.
12—week long, 1/2 day per week of professional-grade life/career coaching to help people understand their personal offer in the world of work, while building up their confidence and communication skills.
Brokering work placements, helping participants to gain work experience and testimonials

What makes these courses unique is that we not only enable participants to reach the job market, but also to gain skills as career coaches. During each course, they practice coaching on each other and on members from the local community. They can also stay on and develop their coaching skills further in the next Skills Camp, following the one they attended. This is true network-based peer to peer coaching, which creates a ripple effect throughout the community, as the benefits of the workshops are experienced beyond the actual course participants. Some Skills Camps participants, may go on to participate in Social Startup Labs, but attending a Skills Camp is not a pre-requisite to participating in a Social Startup Lab.

Skills Camps Timing And Registration
When: Every Wednesday morning, from 9am to 12pm OR Wed afternoon, from 2:30pm to 5:30pm
Begin: 11th January 2012
End: 20th June 2012
Location: Loughborough Centre

Register today! Contact us on 07913088975

If you want to chat with us about any of these events, please get in touch with us here

The Skills Camps Flyer

Undecided about applying to Skills Camps? Drop in during Info Week

Come and find out more in person! Hear more about it, ask all the questions that you like, find out if it is for you, and register your interest in person.

Just show up to our short open-door intro sessions from 28th November to 2nd December, at any of the local hotspots below. Come along, bring a friend, and maybe someone else who you think this would benefit!

Please note, we are an independent organisation, not affiliated to the council or the local Job Centres.

If you would like us to come and speak at a venue local to you, just contact us here. More locations are being confirmed daily so watch this space!

More About Social Startup Labs

Social Startup Labs — Where Startups Are Born

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Social Startup Labs are standalone, monthly, 1-day workshops starting in March 2012, in which local enterprise ideas are generated and acted upon. Participants collectively identify opportunities for enterprise, based on existing local unused/underused assets (skills, resources, materials). With the support of LCL Facilitators, they explore how these unused assets can brought to bear against unmet local needs for products and services. These identified opportunities take the form of fledgling startups. The events bring together a diverse range of local actors and stakeholders from the public, private and third sector and will include some skills camps participants. The diversity of stakeholders is crucial to identifying truly new opportunities, and enabling local entrepreneurs access to valuable business and community intelligence. They give local entrepreneurs who would otherwise act alone, access to the bigger picture; thereby connecting up communities. Fledgling and accelerated ventures will emerge from each workshop, some of which will produce future jobs. This is how London Creative Labs facilitates job/work market creation.

Social Startup Labs Timing And Registration
Time: 9am to 5pm
Date: March, 2012 (exact date to be confirmed)
Location: Loughborough Centre

If you want to chat with us about any of these events, please get in touch with us here

More About The Social Startup Incubator

SocialStartup Incubator — Where Startups Grow Wings

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At the end of the Social Startup Lab, there will be a number of emerging social start-ups that will proceed to the Social Startup Incubator for a three month period where they can have access to resources required to develop into an independent trading enterprise. Social Startup Incubator will provide emerging ventures with:

Fortnightly coaching sessions where social start-ups’ business models are reviewed using the Business Model Canvas and where obstacles to progress are addressed in a peer-based learning environment.

Business Coach (a seasoned entrepreneur locally with the attributes of a deeply networked connector, business mentor and dealmaker) whose role will be to ensure the success of the social start-ups by advising them and brokering deals on their behalf.

Fortnightly business skills training sessions where guest experts will train and mentor start-ups in the essential skills they need to successfully run an enterprise.

Access to further support and seed funding.

Social Startup Incubator Timing And Registration
Programme Times Coming Soon

If you want to chat with us about any of these events, please get in touch with us here