Summer Holidays

After a fantastic year working with local businesses, culminating with the NLab Social Networks Conference in June, NLab and CreativeCoffee Club Leicester are taking a little break until September - when we'll be back, with lots more ideas and enthusiasm!

But just a word about this past year:

- we saw the inauguration of CreativeCoffee Club, an idea from Toby Moores, David Terrar and David Tebbutt, inspired by the IOCT's creativity strolls on a Thursday afternoon.

- CreativeCoffee Club garnered hundreds of members in just a few days with clubs meeting in London, Liverpool and Bangor, as well as Palo Alto and New York. Leicester has been the most consistent of these, with over sixty small businesses taking part.

- our partnership with Vijay Singh Riyait from iQubed. Vijay has been involved in all our activities, but I'd like to highlight the Facebook for Business event in November 2007, which Vijay and I put together.

- the NLab Social Networks Conference in June 2008, attended by 140 small business delegates, with a line-up of national and international speakers, plus an array of workshops from our partners and local small businesses.

- the organisations which helped us to reach diverse small businesses through the city and region, including Mainstream Partnership, Princes Trust, Leicestershire Business Voice, Federation of Small Businesses, LCB Depot, Business Link, Cattalyst, Creative Leicestershire, East Midlands Incubation Network, EM Media and UKita.

NLab has been awarded a further three years from the Higher Education Innovation Fund to continue its work with small businesses in Leicester and the East Midlands.

CreativeCoffee Club Leicester is back on Wednesday 24th September 10-12pm at The Graduate Bar, Campus Centre, Mill Lane, Leicester. Write to shani.lee@frontlinetraining.net if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

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Happy Holidays.

Shani