Co Working Keighley offering graduates a solution to employment problems

Feb. 11, 2011 - PRLog -- Co Working Keighley is a scheme designed to provide gradautes the chance to start their own business and was established by Sean Gilligan Director of WebAnywhere Limited. The scheme offers you the chance to develop your business idea in the perfect environment with each member being provided free office space at Sean’s office in Keighley, a free website and perhaps most importantly free mentoring from already successful entrepreneurs. We run an intense program during which we provide you with seed funding, mentors, office space, a startup community, great contacts to potential investors and partners and many other benefits. Our goal is to not only support your efforts but to challenge you to identify and reduce key risks and to identify and prove out customers segments, revenue models, customer acquisition strategies and the like. Therefore the scheme offers you the perfect chance to develop your business whilst also increasing your employability.

THE JOURNEY SO FAR . . .

June

Sean Gilligan meets Cabinet Ministers following their cabinet meeting in Bradford. Sean pitches the idea past Arthur Francis Dean of Bradford School of Management. Upon a request for comment Sean's pitch for co-working in Bradford is endorsed by George Osbourne (Chancellor) with positive reply from Eric Pickles (Communities Secretary) and Vince Cable (Business Secretary).

July

Sean visits Broadstone Mill in Stockport to see how they have developed co-working in south Manchester. A proposal is submitted to Bradford Council to get the green light on some disused office space. Sean has a positive conversation with CEO of Bradford Council Tony Reeves. Nigel Lockett meets Sean and shows his support for Bradford Network and phase 2 of the Big Society project which will be Leeds Network.

August

Sean talks to Teresa Hull who manages Think Business and the business support programme for Bradford University.

September

Sean meets Leader of Bradford Council Ian Greenwood to discuss the project. Following this a meeting with Keighley and Ilkley local MP Kris Hopkins is arranged. Mentoring and coaching of new start up business starts in vein with monthly review meeting against sales quotas and business objectives. Partnering of businesses within the co-working space.

Co-working Keighley goes live in Sean's office with expansion plans to the Old Keighley College in the pipeline.

October

Sean meets with Martin Edmondson, Managing Director of Graduates Yorkshire to discuss advertising Co-working Keighley from the popular website portal. Kris Hopkins MP (Keighley and Ilkley) meet at WebAnywhere HQ to discuss future plans.


For more information

Tom Griggs

Associate

Co-Working Keighley

Aire Valley Business Centre

Lawkholme Lane

Keighley

BD21 3BB

Web

www.coworkingkeighley.com

www.bradfordnetwork.com

Phone

Tom Griggs on 01535 604026 extension 224 to arrange an appointment with Sean Gilligan Founder of Co-Working Keighley.