Studies have shown that access to finance remains a persistent barrier to female entrepreneurs. We partnered with Barclays on the Female Founders Forum – a group of some of the UK’s most successful female entrepreneurs, who’ve joined heads to come up with tangible, actionable recommendations for tackling the funding issue. The project’s first report, Untapped Unicorns, outlines how Britain can scale up female entrepreneurship.
City of Entrepreneurs
In these pithy articles, the solutions to some of London’s biggest challenges are detailed and faced head-on by experts with the aim of ensuring Britain's capital continues to flourish.
Parliamentary Snapshot 2016
Once again, this Snapshot uncovers MPs' views on policies impacting entrepreneurs as well as providing useful insights on the opinions and working knowledge of the House of Commons. This report was supported by BDB.
Female Founders Forum: Briefing Papers
The Female Founders Forum is a group of some of the UK's most successful female entrepreneurs. These briefing paper cover the four roundtables we hosted at Barclays, Octopus Investments, Parliament and the London Stock Exchange. The ideas from these roundtables formed the basis of the Untapped Unicorns report. The Female Founders Forum is run in partnership with Barclays.
Regional Voices: Yorkshire
This briefing paper is based on the edited highlights of a roundtable discussion. It took place at the Leeds office of PwC with business leaders invested in promoting Yorkshire as a hub for entrepreneurship. Our principal guest was Iain Wright MP, chair of the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee. The ideas presented were designed to feed into his work on the committee, the Northern Powerhouse initiative and wider debates on how to support entrepreneurship across the whole of the country.
Parliamentary Snapshot 2015
Parliamentary Snapshot 2015 follows up on the previous year's report, uncovering areas where MPs' views have changed towards how best to support entrepreneurship in the UK. This report was supported by BDB.
Made in the UK
Based on a ground-breaking survey of 1,599 graduate international students, this report reveals that the visa system is failing international graduate entrepreneurs who want to start a business in the UK.
Parliamentary Snapshot 2014
This is the first survey to uncover the views of MPs on policies impacting entrepreneurs, providing useful insights on the opinions and working knowledge of the House of Commons.
An Entrepreneurs' Manifesto
An Entrepreneurs’ Manifesto is a selection of seventeen ideas that the authors think would help support and promote high growth businesses in Britain.