For the fourth year, StartUp Britain is touring Britain with a bus full of startup experts and champions, to provide inspiration and support to tens of thousands of aspiring and earlystage entrepreneurs, with the overall aim to help boost the number of businesses started in 2015 to a record 600,000.
The bus is decked out with laptops, giveaways, startup packs and information on starting and running a business from the experts, including access to finance, accounting solutions and tips on how to get started.
Partners in Cambridge include NatWest, Sage, StartUp Loans, UpWork, British Library, Intellectual Property Office, UnLtd, National Enterprise Network, ideaSpace, Future Business Centre / Social Incubator East, Cambridge University's Judge Business School and more.
The bus will arrive at 10am and leave at 4pm with 30 minute workshops taking place throughout the day run by local and national partners, with entrepreneurs on board providing mentoring.
About Startup Britain
StartUp Britain is a national campaign by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, harnessing the expertise and passion of Britain’s leading businesspeople to unleash entrepreneurship across the UK. The campaign is run by the Centre for Entrepreneurs think tank and supported by Sage, RBS and Upwork.
Founded by eight entrepreneurs and launched in March 2011 by the Prime Minister, StartUp Britain is completely private sector funded. It was launched in response to the government’s call for an ‘enterprise led’ recovery.
Over the campaign’s duration, Startup Britain has pioneered a range of innovative initiatives to boost public awareness of entrepreneurship and support the growth of early-stage entrepreneurs. Since the campaign launched, startup rates have increased from 440,600 in 2011 to a record-breaking 581,173 in 2014. Notable initiatives from StartUp Britain include three bus tours of Britain, engaging over 17,500 aspiring entrepreneurs in 60 towns and cities; popup shops; and PitchUp schemes through which entrepreneurs pitched their products to Britain's argest high street stores.
StartUp Britain bus tour arrives in Cambridge
19 June 2015
StartUp Britain's Summer Bus tour - which aims to unleash entrepreneurship across the country by providing inspiration, resources and advice to aspiring and early stage entrepreneurs - arrives in Cambridge on Wednesday (24th June) on Sydney Street.