Our Partners

“It is a privilege to be a partner of the British Library. I'm only too aware that there are many gifted people out there who are running or plan to run their own business. There are a number of barriers to success including confidence, poor planning, limited business or market knowledge, through to limited financial, human and other resources. The Business & IP Centre – with its rich range of information, materials, workshops and inspirational events is probably the best physical one-stop resource available to entrepreneurs that addresses all of these factors in the UK."

Rasheed Ogunlaru, Business and Life Coach and Business & IP Centre Partner

Our Partners work in collaboration with the Business & IP Centre to help support entrepreneurs and SMEs by delivering workshops, events and advice.

For more information on our Partners, click the links below:

• Association of Community Based Business Advice (ACBBA)
• Business Link London
• Business Plan Services in association with London Business School
• Centa Business Services
• Create KX
• Dynamic Asian Women's Network (DAWN)
• GK Partners
• Halebury Ventures Limited
• ideas21
• Integra Communications Ltd
• Intellectual Property Office
• Invention Intelligence
• Leonard Cheshire Disability (including the Ready to Start programme for business)
• King's Cross Business Forum
• Red Ochre
• Rasheed Ogunlaru
• Striding Out
• The London Business Support Service
• Wandsworth Youth Enterprise Centre

Our Marketing Associates

Our Marketing Associates are organisations with which joint marketing initiatives are undertaken including cross promotion of one another's services and events.

To apply to be a Marketing Associate, please fill in the form (Adobe Acrobat format) provided and send to bipcworkshops@bl.uk.

To visit the websites of our Marketing Associates, click the links below:

3Cs ABi Associates Limited Accelerator London ACID Anti Copying In Design Action for Blind People African Caribbean Business Network Angels Den Association of Disabled Professionals Azure Insurance BANG Edutainment Barker Brettell Bizunlimited Boots Centre for Innovation British Business Angels Association Business Chinese (UK) Ltd Business Start up Community Business IT Guide BusinessZone.co.uk Campbell, Tim Capital Enterprise Centre for Creative Businesses Centre for Scientific Enterprise Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) China Innovation Centre Cmypitch.com Companies House Company Partners CompeteFor - London Business Network Connect London Cooperatives UK Cultural Industries Development Agency Designing Demand Disability awareness - Open Eyed East London Small Business Centre ECCA Everywoman

Enterprise Insight Entrepreneurial Business and Career Development Executive Solutions (Training) Ltd First Tuesday Gateway2investment GLE oneLondon GWIIN Hallam Communications Ltd Haringey Business Development Agency Harris Cartier LLP Helen Parkins HM Customs & Excise Business Support In Biz Innovation Central Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (ITMA) International Network of Asian Family Business (INAB) IP21 Knowledge Connect Knowledge Dock LaunchLab LearningHouse London Business School London Bioscience Innovation Centre London Borough of Tower Hamlets London Chamber of Commerce London First London Innovation Centre London Knowledge Innovation Centre London Libraries Development Agency London Technology Fund Make Your Mark Making Lemonade Management Advantage Marks & Clerk Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys MLA London

Mo Lurthra, Branding Consultant More to Life than Shoes Mo Lurthra, Branding Consultant More to Life than Shoes MS Business Consulting My Cake NESTA NFEA NHS Innovations Ogunte Global Tribal Network Own-it PERA Pie Finance Precious online Prime Thinkers Princes Trust Prowess QED Consulting Quorus Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) Significan't SME Academy Social Enterprise Coalition Social Firms UK Sound Delivery Synetics World TechCrunch Thames Innovation Centre The Hub The Innovatory The Raft The Rainmakers TIE UK Limited UK Trade and Investment UnLtdWorld Venturus-Associates Ltd Zestworks

The Partnership programme is run in line with the Business & IP Centre's Strategic Priorities.

Dame Anita Roddick

The British Library was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Dame Anita Roddick, which was announced on Monday 10 September. Dame Anita was a great supporter of the Library and in particular the Business & IP Centre.
Read our tribute