New Founders Programme
Our New Founders Programme offers tailored start-up support for young entrepreneurs in the creative sector. This initiative is designed to empower emerging talent by providing the resources and guidance necessary to launch and grow their creative ventures.
Financial Support
Each organisation selected for the programme receives a £3,000 grant. This funding is intended to help them develop and produce their own creative programme in collaboration with Beyond the Box.
Mentorship and Business Support
Participants benefit from comprehensive mentoring and business support. This includes:
One-on-One Mentoring: Personalised guidance from experienced mentors who understand the unique challenges and opportunities in the creative sector.
Business Development Workshops: Sessions focused on essential business skills such as marketing, financial management, and strategic planning.
Industry Connections
We facilitate valuable connections between young entrepreneurs and industry professionals. This network provides:
Collaborative Opportunities: Access to potential collaborators who can help bring their creative visions to life.
Industry Insights: Opportunities to learn from seasoned professionals and gain insights into industry trends and best practices.
Exposure and Networking: Platforms to showcase their work and build relationships that can propel their careers forward.
The New Founders Programme is committed to nurturing the next generation of creative leaders, helping them transform their innovative ideas into successful, sustainable businesses. we collaborated with three organisations for 2023, each with a clear vision for the impact they wanted to have in the industry, they were BOLD, Our Space and 1:100 Podcast.
BOLD
BOLD is a new platform designed for curious minds. Created by Founder Chun-Li Reid, the platform aims to explore innovations, ideas and concepts that inspire people to look at architecture through the sensory experience of taste.
With the understanding that architecture is made up from many elements from our surrounding environments, which come together to give each of us an unique experience, BOLD is exploring the relationship between taste and the built environment.
Through our collaboration on the New Founders Programme, we explored how food could be used to connect to the very fabric of communities, working in partnership with community kitchen’s across East London to film four special episodes of ‘Cooking with An Architect - dubbed the People’s Pavilion Edition’, with the final episode of the series being filmed live at the People’s Pavilion 2023 with RIBA President-Elect Muyiwa Oki .
Head over to BOLD’s Youtube Page to watch the episodes now.
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Idias Community Kitchen
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The Farm Community Kitchen
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People's Pavilion
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EDIT Restaurant
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Behind The Scenes
1:100 Architecture Podcast
The 1:100 Architecture Podcast features seven women of colour who are catalysts for change in the field of architecture. Their mission is to empower individuals to embrace their uniqueness, creativity, and innovation with confidence. Through the 1:100 Architecture Podcast, Youtube, and social channels, they offer authentic and relatable content, design tips, and conversations, shedding light on often overlooked topics through interviews with industry professionals, specialists, and emerging talents.
In 2023, the founders expanded their reach to the broader creative sector by collaborating with various organisations. As part of the New Founders project, the team conducted public interviewing workshops and were commissioned to create a short film titled "What's Your East London?" This project involved working with a group of young people to uncover the hidden stories of East London.
Additionally, two team members joined Beyond The Box and a collective of aspiring young architects at the La Venice Biennale who won the People's Pavilion 2023 award. During the event, the 1:100 Architecture Podcast team curated an in-depth vlog of the experiences shared by members of the cultural producers, then went onto conduct interviews with notable social architects such as Diébédo Francis Kéré (Kere Architecture), Paul Karakusevic (Karakusevic Carson Architects), Stephanie Edwards (Urban Symbiotics), Akua Danso (Co-Founder of Black Females in Architecture), , Muyiwa Oki (RIBA President-Elect) and Hanifah Sogbanmu (Multi-disciplinary Artist).
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Street Interviews - Hackney
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Street Interviews - Hackney
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British Pavilion Opening - Venice Biennale - Italy
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Venice Biennale Interviews
Our Space
Our Space is a new Social Enterprise connecting 14-21 year olds with creative industry leaders through workshops & events. Lead by Founders Daniel Poku-Davis and Max Mackay, they established Our Space to address the cutbacks to art and design from central government, leading to a reduced ability for young people to branch out into the creative industries.
Thorough our collaboration on the New Founder Programme, the team curated a programme of workshops and events aimed at building practical design skills that gave young people the ability to interact with industry leaders and explore a number of design disciplines whilst building vital support networks.
The team hosted their workshops at Morris + Company’s studio on Mare Street in Hackney, with their final workshop taking place during the People’s Pavilion Festival 2023.
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Wokshop with Morris + Company
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AI Workshop
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UX Design Workshop
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Workshop with Morris + Company
