Start-Up Britain
National campaign, StartUp Britain was launched early this year, now 6 months into the campaign.
For anyone not aware of the campaign, StartUp Britain aims to encourage more people to start a business and support existing businesses to grow. It does this by providing useful resources and opening up access to corporate offers. The campaign is about promoting enterprise and does not itself deliver business support. The campaign was launched with support from the Prime Minister and is run by a small team of business owners.
StartUp Britain sponsors include AXA, Barclays, Dell, MITIE, PayPal, Microsoft, Intel and Intuit. The sponsors have pledged their support to backing British startups in the UK.
StartUp Britain is independent of Government, driven by business, for business. So what has happened in those first six months?
· Experian reported a 25% rise in people searching for the term ’start up’ online
· Start-up Britain ran a week of events for start-ups around the theme of marketing and advertising. The result, reaching an estimated 3,000 people who attended events and watched live
· To date, over 1,500 hours of mentoring have been received
· One of the things available on the website at launch was a StartUp Guide, sponsored by Blackberry. Over 4,000 were downloaded
· They have been approached by over 190 Local Champions, keen to work with us on a local level around the UK
· The StartUp Britain Bus Tour travelled 1236 miles, and visited 15 cities (including Cardiff, Liverpool, Manchester and Bristol) and attracting 72 experts on board to meet local startups.
So what’s now in store for Start-up Britain?
- A second version of the website
- Inspired by the feedback from Marketing 4 StartUp Britain, they are currently running the Tech 4 StartUp Britain week.
- StartUp Britain will be hitting the road again, with a particular focus on university start-ups.
We’re looking forward to finding out what’s in store in the next six months enterprise, to find out more visit www.startupbritain.org