Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship Legal Sports 

JOHN AMAECHI OBE: BECOMING THE PROTAGONIST OF YOUR OWN STORY

November 12, 2025November 12, 2025 NewsDesk APS Intelligence, authentic leadership, becoming the protagonist, courage and leadership, Darryl Cooke, empowerment and growth, extraordinary achievement, founder, gunnercooke, inspiring leadership, John Amaechi OBE, leadership awareness, leadership development, leadership podcast, leadership resilience, mental health in the workplace, personal growth, professional inspiration, psychological insight, Saïd Business School, self-determination, The Inspiring Leadership Podcast, University of Oxford

What does it take to achieve the extraordinary? In a truly thought-provoking episode of The Inspiring Leadership Podcast, Professor John

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Entrepreneurship Finance Funding 

NEW PUMA VCT OFFER TARGETS GROWTH-STAGE COMPANIES WITH £70M RAISE

September 24, 2025 NewsDesk capital, Investment Manager, Nicholas Hyett, PUMA, Trust, trusts, VCT, Venture, Venture Capital Trusts, Wealth Club

Puma VCT 13 has announced the launch of a new fundraising offer of up to £70 million, as it looks

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Entrepreneurship Funding 

WAYBEYOND CAPITAL BACKS WEDISSIMO IN NEXT PHASE OF GROWTH

September 19, 2025 NewsDesk capital, Co-founder Andy Bowker, Co-founder David Awad-Clark, Finance, Funding, growth, Invest, Investment, strategy, UK wedding, WayBeyond Capital Ventures, wedding, wedding planning, Wedissimo

Wedissimo, the UK’s leading online wedding services marketplace, has secured fresh investment from WayBeyond Capital Ventures to accelerate its next

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Entrepreneurship Finance Funding Sports 

VANQUISH FITNESS SECURES £1M BOOST TO DRIVE US EXPANSION

September 17, 2025 NewsDesk athleisure, Banking, E-commerce, financing, gym, gym wear, Keisha Silvera, London, Manager, Retailer, Sports, Tottenham, UK Export Finance, UKEF, Vanquish Fitness

Vanquish Fitness, the Tottenham-based e-commerce retailer specialising in athleisure and gym wear, has secured a £1 million trade loan backed

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Entrepreneurship News 

WAGWORKS TO OPEN SECOND LUXURY MEMBERS’ CLUB FOR DOGS IN ISLINGTON

September 8, 2025 NewsDesk day care, dog, dogs, enrichment, Jamie, Ollie, rest., Rhi, socialisation, Training, WagWorks

WagWorks, the canine members’ club often described as the “Soho House for dogs”, is expanding its footprint in London with

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Entrepreneurship Events Startups 

REGISTRATION OPEN FOR SME XPO 2025 – UK’s FOREMOST EVENT FOR THE SCALE-UP COMMUNITY

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 NewsDesk Axa, BT, City of London, Dr Alka Patel, EISA, Enterprise Investment Scheme, entrepreneurial tycoon, former investor on Dragon’s Den, founder, Guavapay, London, Longevity, Love Finance, Metro Bank, Octopus Energy, Piers Linney, Sam North, SME XPO, Theo Paphitis, Towergate, VenturePath, Wellbeing, Worldpay

 June 18th and 19th at ExCel London The UK’s SME XPO is back for 2025, a dynamic two day event

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Business Entrepreneurship Events Features News 

SCALING UP, NOT SLOWING DOWN: WHY SME XPO 2025 MATTERS NOW MORE THAN EVER

June 9, 2025July 8, 2025 NewsDesk Alka Patel, CEO, Christiana Stewart-Lockhart, Co-Founder, Director General, EISA, ExCeL London, Finance Networking Hub, founder, Give Your Best, investor roundtables, Irene Graham OBE, Ishveen Jolly, Jack Smith, Jessica Warch Kimai, London, Love Finance, Marine Tanguy, Matt Grech-Smith, MTArt, OpenSponsorship, Piers Linney, ScaleUp Institute, Sharmadean Reid, SME XPO, Sol Escobar, Swingers, The Stack World, Theo Paphitis, UK

By Sam North, Founder of SME XPO In a time of economic uncertainty and founder resilience, the UK’s scale-up community

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Drinks Entrepreneurship Features 

THE BRITISH ENTREPRENEUR PUTTING FIZZ INTO SUSTAINABILITY WITH CO2 YOU

May 14, 2025May 14, 2025 NewsDesk Aarke, Anthony Bolton, Billi Taps, CO2, CO2 cylinders, CO2 YOU, Dutch, Europe, Fidelity International, Fizz, founder, German, Health, Investor, Marcus O’Donovan, Quooker, Sodastream, The Bubbla, UK and Ireland, Victory, Wter, Zip Taps

In Germany and the Nordics, sparkling water isn’t just a beverage — it’s part of everyday life. With over half

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Entrepreneurship Investment Women in Business 

SNOAP SECURES £50,000 DRAGONS’ DEN DEAL AS ECO SOAP REVOLUTION TAKES OFF

February 28, 2025February 28, 2025 NewsDesk Accelerator, Deborah Meaden, Dragons' Den, Green Business, Innovation, Invest, Investment, London, Luke Pamflett, Natwest, Peter Jones, SNOAP, strategic partners, user-friendly, Welsh

Sustainable soap startup wins over all five Dragons, lands investment from Deborah Meaden and Peter Jones In a triumph for

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Charity Entrepreneurship 

LONDON CEO SLEEPOUT AIMS TO TACKLE CAPITAL’S ‘UNSUSTAINABLE’ HOMELESSNESS PROBLEM

October 23, 2024October 23, 2024 NewsDesk CEO Sleepout Bianca Robinson., Charities, Food, Funding, fundraiser, fundraisers, homeless, Homelessness, Lambeth, Lewisham Westminster, London, Poverty, shelter, UK

Charities across the city have urged Londoners to pull together and tackle the “unsustainable” levels of homelessness in the Capital.

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