Allia opens new business centre for entrepreneurs in East London
Over 100 entrepreneurs, investors and mentors joined guest speaker Peter Cowley to celebrate the launch of the Allia Future Business Centre East London
Allia is the UK’s leading provider of spaces for impact entrepreneurs, and its new centre on London Lane, Hackney is a bespoke co-working facility which combines co-working, event and meeting space with free business incubator and accelerator programmes.
At the buzzing launch event, Cowley underlined the aspiration of the new centre to support existing businesses based or operating in East London to scale and create local employment – whilst engaging the audience with advice, experience and lessons learnt around the challenges of growing and scaling a business. Cowley, a serial tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as a huge supporter of charities creating social change, spoke of the important role that Allia Future Business centres were already playing in Cambridge and Peterborough.
Allia focuses on working with entrepreneurs and ventures who are creating change – from working on a local level to address global challenges. For East London this means understanding the particular challenges faced and providing the right resources and support to help such ventures to effectively grow their business.
Amongst the many guests last night were 26 ventures who have just moved into the centre as part of Allia’s Serious Impact Incubator, an equity-free programme to help entrepreneurs innovate, grow and scale. Allia will be launching a Growth Accelerator programme in the Autumn – to support and advise more established local businesses who wish to grow.
Tim Jones, chief executive of Allia said: “Allia is dedicated to helping impact organisations and initiatives to grow, that will benefit people, place and planet. We are really excited to be joining the evolving ecosystem in London Fields and want our new centre to be the home for East London’s impact entrepreneurs.”
Allia’s work in East London is being supported by the JP Morgan Chase Foundation, as part of their philanthropic work to support small business and create jobs.
