RSVP London

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RSVP London began as an initiative by Raw Nerve in 2005. The design agency, based in Deptford, identified that creative people in the local area needed opportunities for regular meetings in relaxed and informal settings. The idea was to create an environment where everyone could exchange ideas and creative energies while enabling interconnectivity between businesses, individuals and organizations.

The quarterly events brought people together in 'dead' spaces, and provided the opportunity for artists to exhibit work and musicians perform. These elements came together to create a rich social ambiance.

The RSVP London website has been carefully crafted by listening to the needs of the creative community, and aims to keeps the momentum going by bringing people together to connect and to create business opportunities.

www.raw-nerve.co.uk/

In 1999 Lewisham Council, partly in recognition of the growing and potential importance of the Creative Sector in the borough, commissioned Charles Landry to undertake the Lewisham Commission on Culture and Urban Development

Thereport catalogued the strengths of the Creative Sector in the borough and made comments on the quality of the urban realm. The report also pointedout ways in which the sector could further develop and, in the process, contribute to regeneration, environmental improvements and wealth creation in Lewisham. One of the chief practical recommendations of the report was the setting up of a “Creative Lewisham Agency” to help bring forward some of the projects and thematic developments contained in the report.

www.creativelewishamagency.org.uk/

South London is often regarded as a prosperous sub-region with a thriving business sector which does not need any help. But there are areas of deprivation which are badly in need of a helping hand.

Over the last two years, local businesses have been working in partnership with the local authority, business support agencies and the London Development Agency to draft a Strategy to stimulate business growth in the area.

This strategy has been developed under phase two of the National City Growth programme, sponsored by the Small Business Service (a department of the DTi), and includes projects in nine other areas: Thames Gateway London South, Wembley/Park Royal, Liverpool, Portsmouth, Leeds, Derby, Luton, Leicester and Manchester. In addition there are a further seven projects, developed under phase one; Heathrow, London South Central, Haringey, London City Fringe, Plymouth, St Helens and Nottingham.

www.southlondonbusiness.co.uk/