Teen Mentoring Evening Recap
On Tuesday May 31 the Twenty Ten Club and St Matthew Academy in Lewisham hosted a speed-mentoring evening connecting just over seventy girls with a panel of 18 Black female entrepreneurs.
Special guests in attendance included Jennette Arnold OBE, Chair of the Greater London Assembly; Foluke Akinlose of Precious; Vanessa Sanyauke of The Rafiki Network; Jessica Huie of JH Public Relations and Colorblind Cards, Jessica Elliott of J’s Dance Factory and Leila Thomas of Urban Synergy.
Highlights included a warm welcome address from Barbara Lindsay MBE, Senior Policy Advisor for the Government’s Equalities Office.
The Twenty Ten Club also formally announced our new school programme – Interview an Entrepreneur on-stage at the event. The programme invites schools to nominate pupils of all ages to interview Black female entrepreneurs they admire.
I had the pleasure of presenting certificates of achievement to St Matthew Academy’s Year 6 press gang team – Kia-Miami, India-Rose, Jennifer, Kyra-Jade, Candice and Zoe – who are currently taking part in our Interview an Entrepreneur programme.
It was a memorable evening but none of it would have been possible without the support of our fantastic mentor panel of Twenty Ten Club members who did an amazing job sharing insights on their career paths and answering lots and lots of questions! Special thanks to:
- Annika Allen of Flavour magazine
- Viv Oyolu of Divine Communications Trust
- Lola Atkins of EWAV Works
- Fatima Wesson of LoveBrown.com
- Deborah Millington of RedBorder
- Lyande Kaikai of Jewel Clothing
- Andrea Ilaka of Attention UK
- Juliet Jackman of Juliet Jackman Illustrations
- Natalie Lawrence of Natalie Lawrence Photography
- Sharon Gaisie of SAG Media
- Henrietta Lampkin of Elsa’s
- Amma Rose of Amzie’s Design
- Minna Salami of MsAfropolitan
- Vanessa Wallace of Lovely Gorgeous Things
- Chi-Chi Oriaku of Adoravel Hair and Website Flipping Cash Machine
- Cay Moore of Cay Moore Associates and Cay Moore Events Management
- Freccia Williams of Facial Aesthetic
Here are more photos from the night:
Photo credits: Jon Barlow
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For more information on St Matthew Academy visit www.stmatthewcademy.co.uk
The Twenty Ten Club is currently inviting schools to apply to take part in the 2011-2012 Interview an Entrepreneur programme. To find out more please contact the Twenty Ten Club office on 0207 193 4615 or via email on info@twentytenclub.com
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This post was authored by Octavia Goredema, founder of the Twenty Ten Club.
The Twenty Ten Club is an award-winning networking organisation for Black female entrepreneurs. You can also find Twenty Ten Club on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Future 100 social enterprise award winner, 2010
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Teen Mentoring is very important in initial stages