New MD for South East Enterprise

Pauline Forrester was appointed as the new Managing Director for South East Enterprise on the 26 November 2009. Pauline brings with her a wealth of experience having worked in the public and private sector, and is very familiar with the strategic issues facing businesses in the boroughs.

Global Entrepreneurship Event at the Trafalgar Tavern

This year, to emphasise the Global nature of enterprise and entrepreneurship, SEE held an event to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship week (17-22 November). The evening event held at the Trafalgar Tavern in Greenwich gave businesses the opportunity to talk to expert advisers and discover the wide range of free support and services available. The evening also featured a presentation from the inspirational speaker Mark Shaw. Mark is an expert on the use of social networking, in particular Twitter. As an expert user of Twitter he explained how to harness the power of this new marketing tool. 

A buffet and light refreshments was provided for attendees to enjoy whilst networking with like minded business people. The successful evening culminated in a fabulous free prize draw of goods and services donated by local businesses: SBS Printing, Mondmorn, Media Basement, Mogul Restaurant, FLR Spectrum.

Lewisham Global Entrepreneurship Speed Networking Event

South East Enterprise hosted a Speed Networking Event on the 18th November, to mark the launch of the 2010 Lewisham Mayors' Business Awards and to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week in Lewisham. This provided an ideal opportunity for new Lewisham start up business and pre starts to speed network. There was also a market place offering the opportunity to view the work of some of Lewisham's newest creative businesses.