Inspire

Dates run:	September 2004 - March 2006
Boroughs occupied:	Pan London
Statistics:	3000 awareness raised 150 received assistance with innovation
Funder:	London Development Agency / ERDF
Partners:	African Caribbean Business Network, the Caribbean Food Emporium, Southall Regeneration Partnership, Park Royal Partnership

Do you want to be creative and grow your own food business? Would you like to have help in taking the next steps for change? Do you want to increase productivity? Do you want to scale up your business?

Delivered by GLE oneLondon, Inspire was a project designed at supporting the Capital's black, Asian and and minority ethnic food sector companies and integrating innovation into their businesses in order to expand their business.

 

Key highlights:

Participating food businesses were given the opportunity to:

• Identify business challenges and their creative potential
  
  
• To gain inspiration from meeting successful food businesses
  Meeting inspirational food businesses proved to be highly successful in demonstrating to entrepreneurs the advantages of innovation in a business.
  
  
• To access business networking and mentoring opportunities
  
  
• Access free capacity building workshops
  These workshops provided entrepreneurs information and advice about issues relevant to business growth needs. There were also demonstrations using relevant technology and equipment.

 

The results:

Over the course of the project 150 businesses received assistance with integrating innovation into their working practices, and over 3000 businesses awareness was raised.

The best practice tool, the Innovation Route Map was also created in conjunction with this project to assist in growing London’s diverse food businesses.

Download the Innovation Route Map

 

Our partners:

The project was delivered in partnership wtih African Caribbean Business Network, the Caribbean Food Emporium, Southall Regeneration Partnership, and the Park Royal Partnership.

Key expertise was provided by the London South Bank University and the London Food Centre and was funded by the London Development Agency pan-London European Regional Development Fund INSPIRE programme.

 

Contact us:

For more information about this project, please contact Irene Jeffery, irene.j@gle.co.uk