Business events
05/11/2025
D1: Kickstart Your Business - Business Research & Information (IN PERSON)
Day 1: This all-day workshop will help you understand the multiple areas of intellectual property and their relevance to your business, as well as provide you with practical tips on how to utilise the BIPC’s resources to protect, research and develop your business idea. By the end of the session you will understand and identify the importance of intellectual property in your own business and know the next steps to protect it.
05/11/2025
Introducing The Great British Pitch
We're looking for businesses in the following sectors:
• Food & Drink
• Creative Industries
• Digital & Tech
As well as having the chance to pitch your business across the world, via livestream to buyers specific to your industry niche, you'll have chance to network with other small business owners, all keen to find exciting, new, global markets for their products and services.
06/11/2025
Day 2: Kickstart Your Business - Get Started (IN PERSON)
Learn how to set up your business and avoid common start-up pitfalls in this interactive and practical all-day workshop. The topics discussed will include marketing, sales and finance, providing you with a start-up survival kit. By the end of the session, you will have the skills, knowledge and confidence to complete a one-page business plan.
10/11/2025
Start Up Bootcamp - 3 Day Accelerator
10th - 12th November
Starting and growing a business is a rewarding challenge. There is so much to learn. This 3-day event is designed to show you how to get started quickly without wasting time, resources and money.
Learn the real practical steps to growing your business without needing a business plan and without needing any business knowledge.
Our simple 3-day Start Up Bootcamp will show you exactly what to do and when. This training is aimed at both new business owners and those who are yet to start. Learn everything you need to know to get started on the right foot.
Day 1 - The Start Up Foundations
Day 2 - Learning to Sell
Day 3 - Finance, Funding & Operations
12/11/2025
Heathrow Business Summit - Gateway to Growth
The 27th edition the Heathrow Business Summit will take place on Wednesday 12th November, bringing together SMEs, suppliers, and its strategic partners under the theme “Gateway to Growth.”
The event continues to drive local economic growth and partnership opportunities, enabling SMEs to connect with Heathrow’s extensive supply chain network.
Held in collaboration with local Chambers of Commerce and Business Groups, the Summit remains a vital platform for suppliers to gain insights into working with Heathrow and playing a central role in its future.`
14/11/2025
CoCreate, hosted by Alibaba.com
The event, taking place at the Intercontinental hotel at the O2, London will also host the final of the Alibaba.com CoCreate Pitch, the world's leading product-driven start-up competition, where bold entrepreneurs pitch their vision, connect with top investors and compete for a share of $1 million in prizes.
You can find out more about how to apply for the CoCreate Pitch here (deadline 15 October).
18/11/2025
Look the Part: Build Your Visual Brand Vibe In Canva
Your brand’s look speaks before you do. In this hands-on Canva workshop, you’ll design a visual moodboard that reflects your business’s unique vibe or revisit your existing branding to make sure it still feels like you.
Even if you already have a logo or colour palette, this session helps you step back, refine your visual direction, and ensure your brand feels aligned with where your business is today.
We’ll walk through how to choose colours, fonts, and imagery that feel authentic and consistent, all without needing a design degree.
You’ll leave with a refreshed moodboard and a renewed sense of confidence in your brand’s visual story.
20/11/2025
Starting a Photography Business
Introduction to camera controls and settings, composition techniques for professional-looking images, capturing product shots, office spaces, and team portraits. - Visual Storytelling for Brands. - Product Photography and E-Commerce. - Portraits and Personal Branding. - Marketing Your Photography Business.
20/11/2025
South London Skills Summit 2025
Join us for the South London Skills Summit 2025, a pivotal event shaping the future of the South London annex to the London Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP). This is your opportunity to be at the heart of South London's evolving skills agenda - whether you're an employer, educator, training provider, policymaker, or community leader.
You will gain valuable insights into progress made so far and influence the strategy to ensure South London has the skilled, adaptable workforce needed to drive future economic growth.
21/11/2025
Celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week
As the UK's largest bank for businesses, we have always been supporters of Ethnic Minority businesses and communities and will continue to build strong relationships and contribute to positive change wherever we can.
We’re proud of the results we’re achieving to level the playing field for Ethnic Minority owned businesses. We have also developed partnerships with key stakeholders such as Aston University’s Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship where our focus is to break down barriers to enterprise during the pre-revenue, startup and scale up stages of Ethnic Minority entrepreneurs.
24/11/2025
Greater London Women in Business and Enterprise
Quarterly networking that includes inspiring stories from women in business and enterprise, learning together through sharing knowledge, all in a relaxed and informal setting online.
These quarterly events are designed to bring women in business and enterprise together and to learn from the best in a relaxed and informal way, with a platform to learn, share, network and build vital relationships.
24/11/2025
Power Plan: Achieve More in Less Time
It's time to stop guessing and start planning with purpose. This is your space to pause, plan, and create a roadmap that makes running your business feel easier, more intentional, and a lot more exciting.
Join us for a practical, energising Business Clinic. Take the stress out of “business planning” and turn your big goals into a clear, doable roadmap for success.
25/11/2025
Empowering Business Growth for Disabled Entrepreneurs - with Sarah Berthon
Join Small Business Britain, ARU Peterborough and Lloyds for an online webinar with Sarah Berthon, founder of Excel Against the Odds, improving the work life of people living with chronic illness and disability.
BSL interpretation will be available, and attendees cameras will all be switched off.
25/11/2025
Network & Learn Event
This event is for any artists, creative freelancers or creative entrepreneurs in the London boroughs of Richmond and Wandsworth or current participants of the Re:Create programme.
28/11/2025
Breaking Down the Budget for Small Business Owners
To help explain the Budget’s impact on the UK’s small businesses, Small Business Britain and Lloyds Bank Academy are hosting two free webinars on Friday 28th November.
In the first 10am session Small Business Britain's founder Michelle Ovens CBE will break down the Autumn Budget, explaining what the key announcements mean for you, highlighting changes you need to be aware of, and sharing ideas on how to make the most of any new opportunities.
28/11/2025
The Autumn Budget: Q&A
To help explain the Budget’s impact on the UK’s small businesses, Small Business Britain and Lloyds Bank Academy are hosting two free webinars on Friday 28th November.
In the live Q&A clinic at 12pm, a panel of experts share their insight, with Michelle Ovens sharing key points from the Budget and how they affect small businesses, and Faye Watts and Lisa Conway-Hughes sharing a financial perspective to help you plan ahead.
05/12/2025
Richmond Christmas Ball: 2025 Business Awards, Reception, Dinner, DJ, Dance
Your business celebrations start here with a drinks reception, cash bar, 3 course fine dining, half a bottle of wine per person, DJ, dancing, networking and Richmond Business Awards ceremony with TV Presenter, MP Sarah Olney for Richmond Park, Munira Wilson MP for Twickenham, former Twickenham MP Sir Vince Cable, sponsors and the Richmond Chamber of Commerce.
Also, in attendance are: the Leader of Richmond Council and GLA Member SW London Gareth Roberts and directors of businesses global, large and small. Charities and non-profits too are competing for their Award and networking with the region's business community.