Congratulations to our fifth Innovating for Growth cohort

02/04/13

Congratulations to our fifth cohort of Innovating for Growth participants who have won places on the programme and are now set to receive up to £10,000 worth of free business support. All essential areas are covered including business strategy and sustainability, branding, intellectual property, product development and market penetration.

If you're looking to grow your business, Innovating for Growth can help you take the next steps to expand. Providing expert support and tailored specifically to your needs, this programme is completely free of charge.

Interested in applying? Applications for the next Innovating for Growth cohort are open. Please send us your completed application form.

Find out which companies have made it onto our current cohort:

2E Accountants Limited

2E Accountants act as a Finance department to small businesses and are experts in online cloud based accounting. They also handle compliance work for clients including year-end accounts and tax returns. All services are provided remotely using new online technologies.

Accountagility Limited

Accountagility sells unique business process software and related services to large banks and insurance companies to streamline and automate their processes.

Brickwall

Brickwall make films for well-known organisations and brands. They produced more than 60 films for the London 2012 Olympics and have also worked with the NSPCC, Médecins Sans Frontières, Cancer Research and over 50 NHS organisations since 2005. They also have Brickwall Learning Ltd. which offers eLearning and web services to clients including London Southbank University and Guys and St. Thomas' Hospital.

Building Bloqs

Building Bloqs is building a creative community of craftspeople, designers, artists and tradespeople, hands on people, people who place value in the skill of making. It provides a workspace for designers and the level of service varies according to the customers’ needs.

Cameron & Wilding Limited

Cameron & Wilding are a website and software development company, specialising in developing business process applications and workflow automation tools. We specialise in a particular piece of technology called the Drupal content management system, which allows us to build complex systems for medium sized organisations.

CLEO B

Cleo B is a luxury London women's shoes and accessories brand. The business launches two new collections a year, one for Autumn/Winter and one for Spring/Summer.

Gatestone LTD

Gatestone LTD provides high quality security services mostly for business clients including on-site patrols and monitoring as well as front office security. All security officers working with Gatestone LTD are SIA approved with checked over 5 years of working experience and are contracted based on self-employed basis. This type of cooperation allows company to select best security officers.

Gnewt Cargo

Gnewt Cargo is an environmentally friendly logistics operation delivering parcels within city centres, the 'last-mile' on a fleet of electric vans and pedal-electric assist cargocycles.

Golden Hinde Trust

GHT is an educational charity whose primary objectives are to restore, preserve, educate and interpret the historical facts about the original Golden Hinde and Sir Francis Drake, through the medium of Golden Hinde II, an authentic reconstruction of the original vessel, to show the relevance of history to life in England today during the current Elizabethan Age.

Integrated Trackers Limited

Integrated Trackers are an electronics and software company that designs and manufactures GPS tracking devices including a GPS tracker for bicycles. These are small electronic devices that are hidden on your bicycle and if someone steals your bike, it can be tracked. Integrated Trackers are the first company to make these products.

Kids in Charge

Kids in Charge are an out of school care OFSTED registered childcare provider who work with families to provide high quality care which includes formal education opportunities. They run Breakfast Clubs, After School Clubs and Holiday Clubs as well as tuition in Maths, English and Modern Foreign languages.

MakeMyHomeGreen

MakeMyHomeGreen is a one stop shop for homeowners who wish to improve the energy effciency of their homes. We assess properties, advise clients on energy saving measures, and oversee the installation of these measures. We offer a consultancy service and have extensive knowledge on environmentally friendly products.

Moonshine Media Ltd.

Moonshine Media is a creative bespoke digital agency that offers all aspects of digital media and online marketing. Moonshine provides innovative, inspiring design and development solutions, using the latest technologies for a wide range of clients from both the public and private sectors.

Ms. Cupcake

Ms. Cupcake is London’s first entirely vegan bakery. Ms. Cupcake makes cupcakes, layer cakes, cookies, muffins, squares, doughnuts, sandwiches, savoury treats and much more. Everything is always 100% vegan and additionally lots of products are without soya, wheat or gluten.

Murad UK Limited

Murad is a wholesale skincare company which offers retailers targeted at-home skin solutions in the form of products; professional facial and body treatments, plus internal skincare in the form of dietary supplements. As a company Murad supplies spas, salons, clinics and department stores with professional and retail products, training, plus marketing and PR support.

Social Medic Recruitment Agency

Social Medic Recruitment Agency supply qualified labours and staff to the medical sector, social services and industrial organisations. There is also a training department which oversees the training needs of staff.

Southwark Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber of Commerce is a business networking organisation for the benefit of all businesses in the London Borough of Southwark.

Thabto Ltd

Thabto design, manufacture, wholesale and retail their own range of quality, design led gifts and home wares. They also license products from talented young designers and brands that are distributed through the Thabto brand.

The Hairforce - Lice Assassins

The Hairforce - Lice Assassins are a unique nit and head lice clearing service with intellectual property in the form of technology that dehydrates the nits and head lice using just controlled heated air.

Innovating for Growth is run by the British Library and part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund