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Eventbrite Training Sessions in London
Free Enterprise Training

 
London is absolutely packed with public, commercial and third sector training providers. Prices in the formal sector range up to £17,814 per year and include free courses in very basic Levels 1 to 3 in English and Maths. To find formal and informal courses in London is easiest using the National Careers Service course catalogue which does list out of date content but is still the best tool available. There is also a listing for a non-certificated 1-day course on Joomla at the University of Westminster for £350.

For students and alumni of the capital’s higher education (HE) providers there is the added benefit of a passably serious commitment by Universities and Colleges to enterprise. There is lots of extra-curricular support and informal education available, complimented by entrepreneurs-in-residence such as University College London’s Dan Brown. Many higher and further education providers also have student-led support networks such as the UCL Enterprise Society offering numerous to engage in ‘networking events, mentoring, competitions and workshops’. Many of these enterprise networks provide awards and grants to ‘start-ups’, as do many Students’ Unions. The broader Widening Participation/Continuing Adult Education sector, do the same and are also actively broadening their formal offer, especially now that the higher education sector proper is charging their students over £200 per 3-hour lecture.

For a much, much wider offer of free and affordable education, the informal tradition in London, listed on Eventbrite and Meetup provides a packed schedule of seminars, workshops, lectures and conferences covering a great range of subjects. The quality isn’t assured but judicious selection minimises disappointment. Meetup listed events are run by more intellectual and consistent organisations but then less frequently vocational and free to attend than those of listed on Eventbrite.

cbl218Two of the best resources for commercial, and to a lesser extent social enterprises are the British Library hosted Business & Intellectual Property Centre and the City Business Library located around the corner from the Guildhall. Both host hundreds of free or affordable advice and training events annually and maintain a fantastic selection of resources, such as a great collection of specialised books and free to access online research databases. The staff at both are really helpful but then their list of ‘partner organisations’ is not particularly quality assured. For instance UK2 offers cPanel hosting for almost twice the price of other cPanel hosting providers £59.40 per year instead of £29.99.

There are thousands of free public lectures and seminars organised by the Capital's 30+ higher education schools of management and business, as well as the schools with a focus on social enterprise, the third sector more generally, political enterprise and public policy. Some, but not many of the organisers create Eventbrite listing for their events. An interesting trend in outreach is for higher education providers to organise for a short period a facility, such as pop-up Universities and Colleges for lectures on a broad range of subjects. Additionally HE providers host a wide range of informal clubs and societies and the official London Joomla Users Group meets every month in the Engineering Building of University College London in Bloomsbury. There are also a huge number of research institutes, think tanks, lobbying and campaigning organisations, and thousands of representative organisations, including Foreign Embassies that all organise events with an educational purpose.

There is so much happening in London that it is impossible to maintain a listing of it all. We maintain lists of enterprise agenciesfurther education providerslocal government adult education serviceshigher education careers services, and higher education enterprise sections. There is also a list of London and the surrounding Counties' Councils for Voluntary Service who offer a very good range of enterprise training for social enterprises. Additionally below are the formal enterprise and website building courses in Greater London:

Below are pages detailing the social and commercial support providers in the 33 local authority areas in Greater London:



Civic Enterprise Clubs Sales Co-operative

Chambers of Commerce

Civic Enterprise Clubs Sales Co-operative

Local Authority Enterprise Support

Civic Enterprise Clubs Sales Co-operative

Enterprise Support Agencies

Civic Enterprise Clubs Sales Co-operative

Local Authority Commercial Property

Civic Enterprise Clubs Sales Co-operative

Local Authority Street Markets

Civic Enterprise Clubs Sales Co-operative

Councils for Voluntary Services

Civic Enterprise Clubs Sales Co-operative

NOMIS Data

Civic Enterprise Clubs Sales Co-operative

Office for National Statistics Data

Civic Enterprise Clubs Sales Co-operative

Local Authority Data

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