Mentoring programme offered by SPINNA Circle and NatWest
Mentoring programme offered by SPINNA Circle and NatWest
2015
We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in a mentoring programme offered in collaboration between SPINNA Circle and NatWest, working together to empower women in fashion and textiles businesses in the UK.
Hear it from the people in the business! A business workshop and preview of the overall programme. Don’t miss this start-up day if you are keen to benefit from the one-on-one input for FREE. Learn from those who have been working to make small businesses in fashion and textiles sustainable for years.
Draft Agenda
10:15 Registration
10:30 Welcome - Rupa Ganguli & Emma Dick (SPINNA Circle), Nick Howe (NatWest)
11:00 Delegate introductions
11:30 Personal audit
12:00 Industry panel: Q&A with panel including Charlie Ross (Offset Warehouse).
13:00 – 13:45 Lunch break
14:00 Group workshop: Building peer support networks
15:30 Action planning, sign-up for one-to-ones and next meeting
16:00 Finish
This is a unique opportunity to participate in this 6-month mentoring programme offered by NatWest for FREE.
As there are limited places, priority for the full 6-month programme will be given to SPINNA Circle Club members, although this first event on 12th October is free for everyone to attend.
(Annual SPINNA Circle Club membership is £75 per person or £7 per month.)
Sign-up by Monday 5th October 2015 to avoid disappointment.
We will confirm your place and send you the confirmed agenda via email.
Upcoming dates for SPINNA Cohort 5 are:
Monday 12 October - cohort 5 launch workshop (10:30am-4:30pm)
Monday 23 November - 1-to-1s (45 minute 1-to-1s by appointment)
Monday 11 January 2016 - group workshop (09:30am - 3:30pm)
Dates for Feb and March 2016 - TBC
Each of the sessions will require sign-up in advance and a commitment to attend.
It is free to join our online Network membership and connect virtually with other members globally, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
We will soon be launching a premium Gallery membership to promote businesses who are ready to connect to decision-makers in global markets.
Contact us to find out which membership is right for you: [email protected]
This is fifth round continuing on the collaboration between SPINNA Circle and NatWest to support women entrepreneurs and fashion and textile designers in the UK towards developing their businesses or ideas into strong and sustainable ventures. Over the first four rounds of this programme, we have invited specialists from Matthew Williamson, Conde Nast Digital, Hazlems Fenton, Brown Paper Bag Consulting, Fashion Capital, VISION-IPR, City Business Library, www.beonliest.com, Etsy, Fashion Angel, Lulugaia, Companies House covering topics from branding, accounting, web presence, business strategy to manufacturing, distribution, intellectual property protection, market research, e-commerce, costing and pricing, social network analysis and company registration. In addition to workshops from leading industry specialists, we offer our flagship custom one-to-one sessions based on your own business to help you go forward to the next level, whatever the current size of your fashion and textiles business.
SPINNA Circle is a non-profit organisation with its headquarters in London (www.spinna.org). It was founded by Rupa Ganguli of Clothing Connect B.V. originally in the Netherlands and has been launched in the UK since 2012, working together with Director of Projects & Training Emma Dick MA (Oxon) MDes PGCHE FEA who is a Lecturer in Fashion from Middlesex University, London. Our focus is on empowering women entrepreneurs in the fashion and textiles sector and in bringing unique and interesting products to the market. In doing this, we focus on building capacity and strengthening communities where our members live and work. We have a hub and spoke approach providing our network of local ‘circles’ with the opportunity to connect with each other globally both online and ‘offline’. We aim to support our members by providing them with exposure and connections to grow their businesses into profitable ventures and offer tools and support services through partners such as the United Nations, professional organisations and corporates who support our mandate and initiatives to make the fashion and textiles industries gender inclusive and sustainable.
Our three focus pillars are: Igniting Inspiration, Empowering Entrepreneurship, Furthering Fashion
Hear it from the people in the business! A business workshop and preview of the overall programme. Don’t miss this start-up day if you are keen to benefit from the one-on-one input for FREE. Learn from those who have been working to make small businesses in fashion and textiles sustainable for years.
Draft Agenda
10:15 Registration
10:30 Welcome - Rupa Ganguli & Emma Dick (SPINNA Circle), Nick Howe (NatWest)
11:00 Delegate introductions
11:30 Personal audit
12:00 Industry panel: Q&A with panel including Charlie Ross (Offset Warehouse).
13:00 – 13:45 Lunch break
14:00 Group workshop: Building peer support networks
15:30 Action planning, sign-up for one-to-ones and next meeting
16:00 Finish
This is a unique opportunity to participate in this 6-month mentoring programme offered by NatWest for FREE.
As there are limited places, priority for the full 6-month programme will be given to SPINNA Circle Club members, although this first event on 12th October is free for everyone to attend.
(Annual SPINNA Circle Club membership is £75 per person or £7 per month.)
Sign-up by Monday 5th October 2015 to avoid disappointment.
We will confirm your place and send you the confirmed agenda via email.
Upcoming dates for SPINNA Cohort 5 are:
Monday 12 October - cohort 5 launch workshop (10:30am-4:30pm)
Monday 23 November - 1-to-1s (45 minute 1-to-1s by appointment)
Monday 11 January 2016 - group workshop (09:30am - 3:30pm)
Dates for Feb and March 2016 - TBC
Each of the sessions will require sign-up in advance and a commitment to attend.
It is free to join our online Network membership and connect virtually with other members globally, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
We will soon be launching a premium Gallery membership to promote businesses who are ready to connect to decision-makers in global markets.
Contact us to find out which membership is right for you: [email protected]
This is fifth round continuing on the collaboration between SPINNA Circle and NatWest to support women entrepreneurs and fashion and textile designers in the UK towards developing their businesses or ideas into strong and sustainable ventures. Over the first four rounds of this programme, we have invited specialists from Matthew Williamson, Conde Nast Digital, Hazlems Fenton, Brown Paper Bag Consulting, Fashion Capital, VISION-IPR, City Business Library, www.beonliest.com, Etsy, Fashion Angel, Lulugaia, Companies House covering topics from branding, accounting, web presence, business strategy to manufacturing, distribution, intellectual property protection, market research, e-commerce, costing and pricing, social network analysis and company registration. In addition to workshops from leading industry specialists, we offer our flagship custom one-to-one sessions based on your own business to help you go forward to the next level, whatever the current size of your fashion and textiles business.
SPINNA Circle is a non-profit organisation with its headquarters in London (www.spinna.org). It was founded by Rupa Ganguli of Clothing Connect B.V. originally in the Netherlands and has been launched in the UK since 2012, working together with Director of Projects & Training Emma Dick MA (Oxon) MDes PGCHE FEA who is a Lecturer in Fashion from Middlesex University, London. Our focus is on empowering women entrepreneurs in the fashion and textiles sector and in bringing unique and interesting products to the market. In doing this, we focus on building capacity and strengthening communities where our members live and work. We have a hub and spoke approach providing our network of local ‘circles’ with the opportunity to connect with each other globally both online and ‘offline’. We aim to support our members by providing them with exposure and connections to grow their businesses into profitable ventures and offer tools and support services through partners such as the United Nations, professional organisations and corporates who support our mandate and initiatives to make the fashion and textiles industries gender inclusive and sustainable.
Our three focus pillars are: Igniting Inspiration, Empowering Entrepreneurship, Furthering Fashion
2014
SPINNA Circle NatWest Business Mentoring Programme
Cohort 3 | Monday 22nd September 2014
To be held at: City Business Library, Whittington Room (lower ground floor), Guildhall, Aldermanbury, London EC2V 7HH.
We are very grateful to City Business Library for hosting this event.
Confirmed Agenda
09:45 Registration
10:00 Welcome - Rupa Ganguli & Emma Dick (SPINNA Circle), Nick Howe (NatWest)
10:15 Introduction to City Business Library - Wendy Foster
10:30 Delegate introductions
11:00 Running a business in fashion and textiles
11:30 Personal audit
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch break***
13:00 Fashion and e-commerce: Entrepreneur presentation and Q&A
– Adhrita Nowrin, Founder and Managing Director of http://www.beonliest.com
14:30 One-to-one consultations
15:15 Action planning, sign-up and next meeting
15:30 Finish
***Please note that on this occasion we are unfortunately not able to provide catering for lunch. Please do feel free to bring your own lunch. Alternatively there are several cafes and sandwich shops nearby including Pret, Eat and Apostrophe.
Places for the event are limited, so if you can no longer make it, please do email [email protected] - or cancel your ticket on eventbrite.
If you have any questions about Monday - please email or feel free to call Emma Dick on 07979 571 647. We really look forward to meeting you on Monday morning at 09:45am at the City Business Library.
This is third round continuing on the collaboration between SPINNA Circle and NatWest to support women entrepreneurs and fashion and textiles designers in the UK towards developing their businesses or ideas into strong and sustainable ventures. During the sucessful first and second rounds of this programme, we have invited specialists from Matthew Williamson, Conde Nast Digital, Hazlems Fenton, Brown Paper Bag Consulting, Fashion Capital and VISION-IPR covering topics from branding, accounting, web presence, business strategy to manufacturing, distribution and intellectual property protection. In addition to workshops from leading industry specialists, we offer our flagship custom one-to-one sessions based on your own business to help you go forward to the next level, whatever the current size of your fashion and textiles business.
This is a unique opportunity to sign up and participate in this 6-month mentoring programme offered by NatWest for FREE!! This programme is free to attend, but as there are limited seats, we would like to request that you sign-up by Monday 15th September 2014. We will confirm your place and send you the confirmed agenda and location details via email by 12noon on Friday 19th September 2014, at the latest.
Priority will be given to SPINNA Circle Club members. It is completely free to join our online Network membership and connect virtually with other members globally, subject to meeting eligibility criteria. To benefit from the overall SPINNA Circle programme and to access a range of bespoke events and collaborative projects, please do join us as a Club member of SPINNA Circle. (Annual Club membership is £75 per person or £7 per month). We will soon be launching a premium Gallery membership to promote businesses who are ready to connect to decision-makers in global markets. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are keen to join and find out which membership is right for you: [email protected]
SPINNA Circle is a non-profit organisation with its headquarters in London (www.spinna.org). It was founded by Rupa Ganguli of Clothing Connect B.V. originally in the Netherlands and has been launched in the UK in 2012 together with David Eaton of Eyefix International UK Ltd and Emma Dick, Lecturer in Fashion from Middlesex University, London. Our focus is on empowering women entrepreneurs in the fashion and textiles sector and in bringing unique and interesting products to the market. In doing this, we focus on building capacity and strengthening communities where our members live and work. We have a hub and spoke approach providing our network of local ‘circles’ with the opportunity to connect with each other globally both online and ‘offline’. We aim to support our members by providing them with exposure and connections to grow their businesses into profitable ventures and offer tools and support services through partners such as the United Nations, professional organisations and corporates who support our mandate and initiatives to make the fashion and textiles industries gender inclusive and sustainable.
Our three focus pillars are: Igniting Inspiration, Empowering Entrepreneurship, Furthering Fashion
Cohort 3 | Monday 22nd September 2014
To be held at: City Business Library, Whittington Room (lower ground floor), Guildhall, Aldermanbury, London EC2V 7HH.
We are very grateful to City Business Library for hosting this event.
Confirmed Agenda
09:45 Registration
10:00 Welcome - Rupa Ganguli & Emma Dick (SPINNA Circle), Nick Howe (NatWest)
10:15 Introduction to City Business Library - Wendy Foster
10:30 Delegate introductions
11:00 Running a business in fashion and textiles
11:30 Personal audit
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch break***
13:00 Fashion and e-commerce: Entrepreneur presentation and Q&A
– Adhrita Nowrin, Founder and Managing Director of http://www.beonliest.com
14:30 One-to-one consultations
15:15 Action planning, sign-up and next meeting
15:30 Finish
***Please note that on this occasion we are unfortunately not able to provide catering for lunch. Please do feel free to bring your own lunch. Alternatively there are several cafes and sandwich shops nearby including Pret, Eat and Apostrophe.
Places for the event are limited, so if you can no longer make it, please do email [email protected] - or cancel your ticket on eventbrite.
If you have any questions about Monday - please email or feel free to call Emma Dick on 07979 571 647. We really look forward to meeting you on Monday morning at 09:45am at the City Business Library.
This is third round continuing on the collaboration between SPINNA Circle and NatWest to support women entrepreneurs and fashion and textiles designers in the UK towards developing their businesses or ideas into strong and sustainable ventures. During the sucessful first and second rounds of this programme, we have invited specialists from Matthew Williamson, Conde Nast Digital, Hazlems Fenton, Brown Paper Bag Consulting, Fashion Capital and VISION-IPR covering topics from branding, accounting, web presence, business strategy to manufacturing, distribution and intellectual property protection. In addition to workshops from leading industry specialists, we offer our flagship custom one-to-one sessions based on your own business to help you go forward to the next level, whatever the current size of your fashion and textiles business.
This is a unique opportunity to sign up and participate in this 6-month mentoring programme offered by NatWest for FREE!! This programme is free to attend, but as there are limited seats, we would like to request that you sign-up by Monday 15th September 2014. We will confirm your place and send you the confirmed agenda and location details via email by 12noon on Friday 19th September 2014, at the latest.
Priority will be given to SPINNA Circle Club members. It is completely free to join our online Network membership and connect virtually with other members globally, subject to meeting eligibility criteria. To benefit from the overall SPINNA Circle programme and to access a range of bespoke events and collaborative projects, please do join us as a Club member of SPINNA Circle. (Annual Club membership is £75 per person or £7 per month). We will soon be launching a premium Gallery membership to promote businesses who are ready to connect to decision-makers in global markets. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are keen to join and find out which membership is right for you: [email protected]
SPINNA Circle is a non-profit organisation with its headquarters in London (www.spinna.org). It was founded by Rupa Ganguli of Clothing Connect B.V. originally in the Netherlands and has been launched in the UK in 2012 together with David Eaton of Eyefix International UK Ltd and Emma Dick, Lecturer in Fashion from Middlesex University, London. Our focus is on empowering women entrepreneurs in the fashion and textiles sector and in bringing unique and interesting products to the market. In doing this, we focus on building capacity and strengthening communities where our members live and work. We have a hub and spoke approach providing our network of local ‘circles’ with the opportunity to connect with each other globally both online and ‘offline’. We aim to support our members by providing them with exposure and connections to grow their businesses into profitable ventures and offer tools and support services through partners such as the United Nations, professional organisations and corporates who support our mandate and initiatives to make the fashion and textiles industries gender inclusive and sustainable.
Our three focus pillars are: Igniting Inspiration, Empowering Entrepreneurship, Furthering Fashion
2014
We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in a programme offered in collaboration between SPINNA Circle and NatWest, UK.
Hear it from the people in the business! A business workshop and preview of the overall programme. Don’t miss this start up day if you are keen to benefit from the one on one input for FREE. Learn from those who have been working to make small businesses sustainable for years
After the overwhelming success of our first cohort from September 2013 to January 2014, we are opening the application for a second round starting March 2014. Existing participants are welcome to continue as we will continue to add elements to the programme and invite even more speakers and provide futher one on one sessions.
Agenda
0930 start with coffee / tea
0945 intro NatWest programme with SPINNA Circle and purpose of the day
1000 delegates to pitch and introduce themselves to the other group members
1030 Speaker - NatWest (session 1)
1115 break
1130 Guest Speaker
12.00 Speaker - NatWest (session 2)
1300 lunch
1330 Guest Speaker
14.00 Speaker - NatWest (session 3)
1430 one to one consulting
15.45 closing and next steps, signing up and dates
This is the second round continuing on from the collaboration between SPINNA Circle and NatWest to support women entrepreneurs and designers in the UK towards developing their businesses or ideas into strong and sustainable ventures. Through the course of the programme during the first cohort we had speclialitsts from Mathew Williamsons, Vogue, Hazlems Fenton and Brown Paper Bag covering topics from branding, accounting, web presence, business strategy and distribution.
In addition we offer our flagship customised three one on one sessionseach with you, based on your business to help you go forward.
This is a unique opportunity to sign up and participate in this 6-month mentoring programme offered by NatWest for FREE!! This event is free to attend, but as there are limited seats, we would like to request an early confirmation by end of business, Wednesday, 6 March. Priority will be given to SPINNA Circle members. If you are not a SPINNA Circle member, you are welcome to attend this 1st event.
To benefit from the overall SPINNA Circle programme and to access special events and exclusive meetings through the platform, please do join us as a London paid member of SPINNA Circle. (Annual membership is £75 per person)
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are keen to become a member and find out next steps.
SPINNA Circle is a non-profit organisation with its headquarters in London (www.spinna.org). It was founded by Rupa Ganguli of Clothing Connect B.V. originally in the Netherlands and has been launched in the UK in 2012 together with David Eaton of Eyefix International UK ltd. Our focus is on empowering women entrepreneurs in the fashion and textiles sector and in bringing unique and interesting products to the market. In doing this, we focus on building capacity and strengthening communities where our members live and work. We have a hub and spoke approach providing our ‘circles’ with the opportunity to connect with each other both online and ‘offline’. We aim to support our members by providing them with exposure and connections to grow their businesses into profitable ventures and offer tools and support services through partners such as the United Nations, professional organisations and corporates who support our mandate and initiatives to make this industry inclusive and sustainable.
Our core areas of work: connecting and collaborating, training and mentoring, marketing and sales
Hear it from the people in the business! A business workshop and preview of the overall programme. Don’t miss this start up day if you are keen to benefit from the one on one input for FREE. Learn from those who have been working to make small businesses sustainable for years
After the overwhelming success of our first cohort from September 2013 to January 2014, we are opening the application for a second round starting March 2014. Existing participants are welcome to continue as we will continue to add elements to the programme and invite even more speakers and provide futher one on one sessions.
Agenda
0930 start with coffee / tea
0945 intro NatWest programme with SPINNA Circle and purpose of the day
1000 delegates to pitch and introduce themselves to the other group members
1030 Speaker - NatWest (session 1)
1115 break
1130 Guest Speaker
12.00 Speaker - NatWest (session 2)
1300 lunch
1330 Guest Speaker
14.00 Speaker - NatWest (session 3)
1430 one to one consulting
15.45 closing and next steps, signing up and dates
This is the second round continuing on from the collaboration between SPINNA Circle and NatWest to support women entrepreneurs and designers in the UK towards developing their businesses or ideas into strong and sustainable ventures. Through the course of the programme during the first cohort we had speclialitsts from Mathew Williamsons, Vogue, Hazlems Fenton and Brown Paper Bag covering topics from branding, accounting, web presence, business strategy and distribution.
In addition we offer our flagship customised three one on one sessionseach with you, based on your business to help you go forward.
This is a unique opportunity to sign up and participate in this 6-month mentoring programme offered by NatWest for FREE!! This event is free to attend, but as there are limited seats, we would like to request an early confirmation by end of business, Wednesday, 6 March. Priority will be given to SPINNA Circle members. If you are not a SPINNA Circle member, you are welcome to attend this 1st event.
To benefit from the overall SPINNA Circle programme and to access special events and exclusive meetings through the platform, please do join us as a London paid member of SPINNA Circle. (Annual membership is £75 per person)
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are keen to become a member and find out next steps.
SPINNA Circle is a non-profit organisation with its headquarters in London (www.spinna.org). It was founded by Rupa Ganguli of Clothing Connect B.V. originally in the Netherlands and has been launched in the UK in 2012 together with David Eaton of Eyefix International UK ltd. Our focus is on empowering women entrepreneurs in the fashion and textiles sector and in bringing unique and interesting products to the market. In doing this, we focus on building capacity and strengthening communities where our members live and work. We have a hub and spoke approach providing our ‘circles’ with the opportunity to connect with each other both online and ‘offline’. We aim to support our members by providing them with exposure and connections to grow their businesses into profitable ventures and offer tools and support services through partners such as the United Nations, professional organisations and corporates who support our mandate and initiatives to make this industry inclusive and sustainable.
Our core areas of work: connecting and collaborating, training and mentoring, marketing and sales