World Entrepreneurship Summit 2009, London - 20th March 2009

 

Following the success of the first WES, January 2008, Rebecca Harding and her team organise the 2009 Summit   This one-day event focuses on the key issues keeping entrepreneurs awake at night in the current climate.  From access to finance to mentoring and coaching, managing a growing business, managing cashflow and profitability as the climate tightens, managing people through uncertain times.  The focus is on promoting the role of entrepreneurs in stimulating sustainable economic development.  At no time in recent economic history has the entrepreneur been more important in helping the world address the economic, social and environmental challenges that it faces.  From the smallest social enterprise in sub-Saharan Africa through to global corporations, entrepreneurs are the world's change agents and will enable us to pull through.
This inspiring and international event puts entrepreneurs of all types together with investors, business support professionals and agencies, large and small companies, coaches, mentors and policy and academic experts with a view, creating the financial and network support that will provide entrepreneurs with platforms to change the world. 

 

Kelly Palmer - winner of the emda sponsored Prince's Trust 2008 Young Achiever of the Year at the PT Celebrate Success Awards. Following difficulties in her teenage years Kelly found The Prince's Trust 'Team' programme and turned her life around. She is now helping other young people to do the same.Prince's Trust East Midlands

 

Gwen Cottrell - Regional Director of RIBA - Royal Institute of British Architects-  for Hospice Care Kenya
Having worked with Gwen to help shape thinking and devise the EM Low Carbon Award for Environmental Initiative a couple of years ago, I met up with her again to present this emda sponsored award to the 2008 winners - Marsh:Grochowski Architects, for the Icon Office Building. It was through this that I discovered Gwen's other passion. She helped found the first Kenyan hospice service (similar to Macmillan) in Nairobi in 1990 whilst living there. Since then Hospice Care Kenya, a small UK charity where she is one of the Trustees, has been supporting and developing the 8 fledgling services. The support is geared to meeting medical needs, providing services and training, although Gwen's personal ambition (not unexpectedly!) is to encourage improvements to the quality of design of the premises and interiors. She knows that pleasant, bright, well thought out places and spaces can exponentially improve patient and staff wellbeing. At the moment all aspects of design of the premises in Kenya are, inevitably, a low priority. visit Hospice Care Kenya

 

EM Media co-financed features in Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah - 15th-25th January 2009
The 25th Sundance Film Festival includes premieres of two films made and financed in the East Midlands. They were selected for the highly contested World Cinema Dramatic Competition strand and join 16 films,chosen from a record 1,012 entries. Bronson, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and Unmade Beds, directed by Alexis Dos Santos, received �250,000 of European Regional Development Funds through EM Media and join a strong slate of other co-financed award winning British independent films including Control, This Is England and Summer. Bronson and Unmade Beds also received Lottery Funds from the UK Film Council via EM Media to support trainees who worked on the productions.
Bronson traces the transformation of Mickey Peterson into Britain's most notorious, dangerous and charismatic prisoner, Charles Bronson. Taking the title role of Bronson will be Tom Hardy (Black Hawk Down, WΔZ, RocknRolla, Stuart: A Life Backwards) who is cited by critics as one of the UK's most promising young actors. The film shot in the East Midlands region from a Nottinghamshire base over six weeks during 2007, using a range of locations including Great Central Railway and Stanford Hall in Loughborough and created jobs for twenty-two highly skilled crew from the East Midlands. The film will receive its North American Premiere at Sundance. Unmade Beds tells the story of two young foreigners who find romance in the vibrant, artistic underground of London's East End. The film features a cast of exciting young international acting and creative talent in front of, and behind the camera, and cutting edge music by UK-based independent bands. The diverse architecture and streets of Nottingham stood in for London during a four week shoot in and around the city during last year. The film also used the talented crew based in the East Midlands, with trainees being employed on the production with support from Lottery Funds from the UK Film Council via EM Media. The film will receive its World Premiere at Sundance. Sundance Festival 2009 Contact Emily Lappin  or visit www.em-media.org.uk              
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