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Brand consultant & doer. Founder of Totally Locally. International Speaker. Honorary Doctorate Staffs Uni.
Totally Locally won The Springboard Entrepreneurs Award 2024 from Octopus Group! On Monday myself & Simon Waldren had the immense privilege of being invited to Octopus HQ for a day of a full day of strategic business advice and support on how to scale up for Totally Locally with Octopus Founder, Chris Hulatt and his team with Director of Policy Justine Duggan. We were nominated for The Octopus Springboard Entrepreneur Awards by Minister for Small Business Kevin Hollinrake, and, out of hundreds of entries from around the UK judged by cross-party MPs & industry leaders, we were one of the 5 organisations to win. It was an incredible day, and the advice and ongoing support from the Octopus team was invaluable. We had a great talk from and were interviewed by Jimmy McLoughlin OBE as part of the day too. I really loved meeting the other winners, who have created superb, innovative companies, all with a purpose to make the world a better place, including a Carbon Negative Whiskey Company, a cloth company saving tonnes of material from landfill, a training group for Neurodiverse Entrepreneurs, a company making period underwear (who fought successfully to have VAT removed on women's sanitary products) and a company de-carbonising companies & buildings. You can check them out on the links below. A huge thank you to Chris Hullatt, Kevin Hollinrake, Justine Duggan, Hattie Turner and everyone who worked with us on the day. And we got a nice trophy & a big pink Octopus! Links to the other excellent winners here: Cooper King Distillery wukawear GW Power-Safe Ltd Joyfully Different @rainbowfabrickilburn #Octopus #Entrepreneur #Awards
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