Featured Partnerships
BEST Growth Hub Show – 27 February 2020
Back for a fourth year and building on last year’s success, the BEST Growth Hub Show is back at Chelmsford’s prestigious Hylands House on February 27th 2020. Essex’s ONLY one-stop-shop business show! Click here to book your place.
Blackhorse Workshop CIC
The Blackhorse Workshop is a public space dedicated to making and mending. It is fully equipped with both wood and metal workshops, machinery support is offered from highly skilled technicians. The Blackhorse Workshop offers the opportunity to grow your start-up with community and industry expertise.
Boathouse Barking CIC
The Boathouse Barking is a multi-purpose venue with an emphasis on supporting artists in their development. The venue offers affordable exhibition and performance studios with areas for workshops and training.
Building A Resilient Organisational Culture Workshop – 13 February 2020
How can you get your culture right as you grow your business? And why does it matter so much for long term business success? As businesses grow, they often encounter cultural pinch points which can hinder growth. This workshop helps you identify some of the pinch points before they happen and gives you advice on the...
East London Radio CIC
The East London Radio was formed in 2012 after the London Olympics. Since 2013, hundreds of volunteers have been trained and been included on the air. The radio station supports community and local councils, and is partnered with other businesses who have similar goals.
Flexible Estate and Space Transformation
When our sister company The Hive Enterprise Centre in Southend struggled to sub-let an oversized office, we worked with them to transform a large and somewhat boring four walled box designed for one business needing 20+ workstations into an exciting, safe, secure and intimate suite of single and 2-person offices. In line with our local...
Flexible Space Association
The FSA is a not-for-profit trade association representing the needs of operators, partners and customers of business centres, co-working, serviced offices, managed workspace and accommodation address and virtual officer providers. The FSA promotes the sector to Government, local authorities and the wider business community. The FSA specialises in providing support and guidance to providers of...
IR35 Compliance
IR35 Compliance provides consultancy services on managing your team through the off-payroll legislation: IR35 assessment and bespoke advice/ways of working to maintain an outside IR35 status. Substitution Service to facilitate a service driven model; enabling an outside IR35 status.
Is Your Business “Oven Ready” For Brexit Workshop – 2 April 2020
About Business Ready For Brexit Workshop If you import or export within Europe and or currently employ anyone who is an EU national or just what to get an overview of how Brexit may affect your business – this seminar is for you. We will give you some high-level general advice on the things you...
IT Recruitment Marketplace
IT Recruitment Marketplace provide IT Solutions for the recruitment industry: Recruitment Dashboard - efficiently manages your recruitment process; encouraging objective decision making and driving down costs. Tech Assist - provides objective technical evaluations of your candidates so that you can concentrate on finding the best fit.
London East Jazz Network
London East Jazz Network aims to display musical diversity and represent the creative and entrepreneurial side of music. It also offers the opportunity to enjoy and showcase Jazz music. View our case study here:
London East Jazz Network
Cultural placemaking through creativity, the arts and entrepreneurship: An innovative and successful creative, cultural and economic development programme, we wanted to showcase the underpinning innovation, inventiveness, interpretation, inclusiveness and diversity that jazz culture has always and continues to represent. We successfully conceived, designed and produced JazzEast, our inaugural community focussed live music festival, in the...
Making Money From Commercial Property – 5 March 2020
This event focuses on how to make money from commercial property. About this Event This event focuses on how to make money from commercial property – how it can be bought, sold and used. It will be of interest to business owners, investors, property professionals, accountants and solicitors. Speakers: Mark Kass (The Hive): Introduction; The Hive as a...
Making Money Using Immersive Tech (AR, VR, AI) Workshop – 18 February 2020
VINTEC use technologies including Augmented and Virtual Reality to deliver next generation experiential marketing, immersive training and design visualisation. This paced, fun and engaging workshop includes a light lunch and hands on demonstrations of technologies including Virtual Reality, Holograms, Augmented Reality and interactive displays. Understand how leading brands and local businesses are profiting as they reach wider audiences using Experiential...
Mark Kass Consulting
Project QUAD: Multi Borough business scale-up programme Often a challenge to get London and County local authorities to work together on economic growth programmes, we proudly worked with the London Borough’s of Havering and Barking & Dagenham and Essex’s Thurrock & Basildon Council’s to design, manage and successfully deliver projectQUAD, a pooled resource pilot multi-Borough...
Mode2
Mode2 offers user centered web and application development services to public and private sector organisations of all sizes.Specialities include: User Experience / User Interface design methodologies Content Management Systems deployment and customisation Visual design and brand expansion / integration into online space
Networking and Cake – 27 March 2020
Our Networking and Cake events are designed to act as a forum for you to meet new people and build your professional network. You are invited to our free business networking event in Southend-On-Sea. Networking and Cake has been established since November 2015 and has grown into the largest free regular networking event in Southend-On-Sea!...
Networking and Cake – 28 February 2020
Our Networking and Cake events are designed to act as a forum for you to meet new people and build your professional network. You are invited to our free business networking event in Southend-On-Sea. Networking and Cake has been established since November 2015 and has grown into the largest free regular networking event in Southend-On-Sea!...
New Trustee of The Jazz Centre UK
Mark Kass has been offered and accepted the role of Trustee at The Jazz Centre UK. The Jazz Centre UK are based in The Beecroft Gallery in Southend-on-Sea. As a Trustee of the board, Mark will work and collaborate with other members to fundraise, maintain and promote the artefact and memorabilia heritage collection. The board...
Perfectly Simple IT Solutions
Perfectly Simple IT Solutions (PSIT) specialise in: Digital Transformation – using technology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your business processes. Systems Integration – deriving maximum business value from your existing systems, then increasing business value by improving/replacing those systems; without disrupting your business. Cloud Migrations – providing migration strategies, planning and execution to...
Small Flex Space Firms Drive Sector
They sign up fast-growing corporates and exciting tech and creative start-ups, the sector appears to be maturing nicely – and hopefully without the cultish hype seen in recent years. But I would like to remind the property world of us ‘Davids’ out here in the sticks. There are hundreds of independent single and low-number site...
South East Local Enterprise Partnership
The South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP) is 1 of 38 Local Enterprise Partnerships established to provide vision and leadership to drive sustainable growth and job creation. The Local Enterprise Partnerships are the key bodies determining economic priorities for investments and creating growth and jobs.
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council
Southend-on-Sea Council is the local authority for Southend, Thorpe Bay and Shoeburyness. It is primarily responsible for business and council tax, housing, jobs, social care, education and health and well being
Tech City on Sea
Endorsed by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Southend Borough Council, our TechCityOnSea initiative is a privately sponsored community engagement programme designed to bring together public, private and voluntary sector organisations and individual residents and others interested in local digital transformation. In line with their pan-Essex “Green” Business programme, LoCase, a publicly...
The 5 Most Common Mistakes Made By Start Ups Workshop – 31 March 2020
About The 5 Most Common Mistakes Made By Start-Ups Workshop A workshop exploring the 5 most common mistakes we all make when starting a business. Ideal for people thinking about starting a business but also for owners of businesses in their first 5 years of trading and ready to make the step to the next...
The 7 Habits Of Successful Entrepreneur’s Workshop – 25 February 2020
About the workshop: In this workshop, learn about the seven most common habits that successful entrepreneurs exhibit. Based on research from leading publications and close up observations of having worked with a number of very successful entrepreneurs, Paul Durrant from PDT Sales Consultancy will take you through these seven entrepreneurial habits and show you how...
The Essential Components of an Exit Strategy Workshop – 4 March 2020
A successful exit is often seen as ‘payback’ for the investment you’ve made in successfully running your business. But what is a successful exit and, how do you achieve one? An exit can take many forms, from an outright sale to a senior team buyout, from a merger to a transfer within the family, or...
The Essex & East London Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Learning Business Education Hub (eel2 ACADEMY)
EEL2 : Bike dock solutions - turning bright sparks into an Olympic flame Starting life as a theoretical cycle parking themed university project, young enthusiastic bike enthusiasts keen to turn theory into practice, Directors James & Josh worked with one of our independent, confidential and experienced business counsellors and our wide range of training courses, workshops, seminars...
The Hive Buzz ‘Be Your Own Boss’ Workshop – 2 April 2020
Our sister company, Enterprise4Good, are proud to launch EELsquared, an exciting new service aimed to help boost entrepreneurship here in Southend. EELsquared – the Essex & East London Enterprise & Entrepreneuership & Learning Academy – is E4G’s innovative training and development hub for business learning and will be hosting the first of its “HiveBuzz” business...
The Hive Enterprise Centre
Our flagship economic, social and physical regeneration project, The Hive Enterprise Centre in Southend-on-Sea, Essex is an exciting affordable, flexible workspace hub operated on a not-for-profit basis and in partnership with Southend Borough Council. Following a successful public tender, we were appointed to develop a ten-year strategy for The Hive and to manage the day-to-day...
The Premier League
The Premier League is the top level of English Football. It is contested by 20 clubs and operates on a system of promotion and relegation.
Vintec
Vintec use immersive technologies to create compelling content and thrilling experiences used for: Experiential Marketing - engaging consumers with their favourite brands in far more interactive ways. Immersive Training - fully engage, challenge & reinforce vital learning to your team; through 'task based' and 'scenario based' technologies such as Virtual Reality. Design Visualisation - Virtual, Mixed & Augmented...
West Ham United Football Club
West Ham United Football Club are an English professional club based in Stratford, East London. The club compete in the Premier League and play at the London Olympic Stadium.
West Ham United Foundation
The West Ham Foundation’s goal is to be the leading social and community outreach organisation. The Foundation aims to provide inclusive opportunities for residents in East London and Essex.