Social Enterprise
Meet Adwoa Agyemang
Founder
Ghanaian Londoners Network
Precise Marketing Solutions
Fawohodie Designs
Serial entrepreneur Adwoa Agyemang is the founder of the Women in Enterprise Awards and three London based companies – Ghanaian Londoners Network, Precise Marketing Solutions and Fawohodie Designs.
Ghanaian Londoners Network is a social enterprise with a core focus on enterprise, women empowerment, community and youth development in the UK and Ghana.
Precise Marketing Solutions provides marketing and events management services for UK based and international businesses.
Fawohodie Designs is a fashion and lifestyle company focused on exploring the beauty of African prints with the main aim of investing in Africa and creating jobs.
Adwoa’s companies employ a team of 10 in the United Kingdom and Ghana.
0Meet Lisa Nicole Bell
CEO
Inspired Life Media Group
Inspired Girls International specialises in the provision of content and programming for young women aged 14-21 years.
Founded by the award-winning filmmaker, author and entrepreneur Lisa Nicole Bell in 2008, the organisation is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and part of the Inspired Life Media Group.
Using film, television, stage and new media, Inspired Life Media Group illuminates social issues and personal development themes with thoughtful and unique angles.
Schools, churches, agencies and corporate brands turn to Inspired Girls for insight on attracting and engaging emerging feminine leaders. The organisation provides tomorrow’s successful women with their toolkits for the future.
As an entertainment professional and entrepreneur, Lisa’s projects and companies have earned various awards and nominations including the NAACP Image Award and the Small Business Administration’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
0Meet Barbara Campbell
CEO
Barb Wire Enterprises
Barb Wire Enterprises is a south west London based publishing house. The company currently produces Live Listings magazine; The Official Guide to International Women’s Month magazine and Black Heritage Today.
Founded by Barbara Campbell, the company launched in 2000 after the single mother of two cashed in cashed in her life insurance policy to use as seed money. The company is now poised to go global with a team of up to 15 employees.
Barbara also helms the youth-focused social enterprise Assist2, providing the Media Education 2 Enterprise Challenge, a publishing seminar programme for teenagers.
0Meet Vanessa Sanyauke
Director
The Rafiki Network
The Rafiki Network is a London-based leadership and mentoring social enterprise that works with young people aged 11-18 years of age.
Founded by award-winning serial entrepreneur Vanessa Sanyauke in 2008, The Rafiki Network provides a range of services from individual mentors who work with young students on a one-to-one basis to facilitating workshops and assemblies for schools and youth organisations. The company employs a team of three and mentors 25-30 young people per cycle.
In addition to running The Rafiki Network Vanessa heads the event management company Exquisite Celebrations and is the editor of her own lifestyle blog.
In 2010 Vanessa was recognised at the Spirit of London awards as a Community Champion for her sterling work at The Rafiki Network. Vanessa was also listed as one of the 100 social entrepreneurs to watch at the Future 100 awards last year.
2Meet Angela Asieba
CEO & Editor-in-Chief
Nubia Magazine
Nubia Magazine CIC is a social enterprise that aims to promote positive images of Black minority ethnic people, celebrating their success and achievements while providing a platform for engagement.
The organisation publishes two community magazines and provides young people with training opportunities within media and the creative arts.
Founded by Angela Asieba in January 2009, Nubia Magazine employs a team of five in Kent and Islington, London.
0Awards
Future 100 social enterprise award winner, 2010
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