My campaign site, thecreativecrip.com (and my nom de plume) was borne of the frustration in trying to become self-employed having become disabled and exhausted my redundancy savings. The of aim this project has always been to chronicle my thoughts and experiences as an entrepreneur trying to successfully grow a business despite the limitations of physical, mental and invisible disabilities. I don’t want to carry on living my life as it is now – becoming disabled and needing benefits is not a lifestyle choice, especially given the not insignificant skills and experience I’ve gained from nearly 25 years working on Wall Street and in The City of London. The reality is proving to be quite different to the idea. I have spent the better part of two years floundering, barely keeping my head above water as I begged for help and fought to not be forced into the usual dead-end workfare schemes. I have received very little in the way of factual, practical help.

Lisa - 03/08/2012

Konnekt aims to help young people 'konnekt' with the right opportunities regarding their aims and plans for the future through people and contacts, this can relate to all fields through education, employment and training.

Mohammed - 01/26/2012

The Crowd will be a platform to tap into the untapped agency of NEETS, engage young people and assemble ad-hoc teams, with support and mentors, to drive change in their communities and work with public services. This will provide valuable experience for project working, build soft-skills, peer-peer and community interaction, and boost the confidence and aspirations of young people.

Jonathan - 01/25/2012

MeshDays offers a unique opportunity for young people to ‘taste’ their potential careers. These employer-led insight days will give individuals the chance to learn, be inspired and network.

Megan - 01/24/2012

Blastbeat in a Box creates and gameifies the existing Blastbeat programme and develops an online tool kit, built around the Blastbeat programme. Blastbeat wraps the learning experience in music, dance or sport, that leverages young peoples interests and passions to engage NEETs back in the learning process and enhances their positive learning experience teaching business and life skills in a very compelling way. Blastbeat in a Box helps to empower young people to be event creators and social entrepreneurs, programming and selling out live events and creating performance opportunities for other young people that are intense yet cool and FUN. Blastbeat has a programme and an expertise that has proven very successful at engaging these young people, NEET's in particular will benefit young people NEET

Robert - 01/24/2012

Jeff - 01/23/2012

NOISE Passion Finder is a free online aggregator of existing social platforms, presented with a mix of bespoke input from insiders, celebs and those in the know; to curate and create tailored, purely relevant content to answer the unique, specific needs and requests of each young user. All in one central place. Created by the award-winning national charity NOISEfestival.com

Victoria - 01/21/2012

EntrepreneurFinder is a free interactive resource designed around the needs of entrepreneurs, students, skilled individuals, professionals and investors. The idea behind the site, is to give our users the ability to take control of their professional and entrepreneurial careers from start to finish. And, provide them with tools to find employment or create ways to become self employed. The site assists everyone from students looking for mentors to recruiters and entrepreneurs looking for professionals to investors looking for the next great company in search of funding. By bringing these people together, EntrepreneurFinder will start to act as an online feeder system for entrepreneurship, funneling all the key resources needed to a single freely accessible platform. 20% of new jobs come from start-ups. We need to do all we can to give motivated individuals the tools that they need to build a successful company and employ others.

Luke - 01/19/2012

Finding the people with the skills needed to help realise ideas can be extremely difficult, especially when you lack the necessary network of contacts. The Creative Co-Op is an enabler for all young creatives, allowing them to source collaboration from amongst their peer group.

Max - 01/14/2012

YourPosition enables young people to locate places that have current job positions available, these are sent as a notification alert on their mobile device. As soon as the user enters into a certain location, the app searches for vacancies over a certain mileage of radius from their current position. As well as sending vacancy alerts it also rates them in urgency or importance, for example it would be of a bigger brighter alert if the application date was near or after setting up the app with your dream job specification it will also search for aspects of your spec that will relate to sending urgent attention alerts that are related exactly to the users needs.

Rebecca - 01/13/2012

Enter to win a FREE Hub King's Cross Membership for all of 2012.

Rachel - 11/09/2011

Do you have an idea on how to improve your neighbourhood or your local services? Do you want to win the chance of getting people to turn your idea into reality?

Noel - 09/29/2011

We at the Local Government Information Unit have spare office space for two years in a central London location (near Euston). We are interested in providing a flexible place where social enterprises would get together and share ideas. In particular, current or past local government employees who are developing mutuals or cooperatives to provide public services.If any organisations or individuals would like to bid for the space please contact us.

Andy - 09/15/2011

We are looking for applicants for the Big Venture Challenge: a new programme of funding and support from UnLtd

Dan - 04/04/2011