Meet Aleksandra, our new Cambridge Centre Manager
June 26, 2023
We managed to have a chat with our new Cambridge Centre Manager Aleksandra on what her role consists of and what she gets up to outside of Allia.
Category: Blog
Impact ventures celebrate prize fund share at DIF Allia Accelerator Challenge demo day
March 8, 2023
Three social enterprise start-ups are celebrating the successful completion of the DIF Allia Accelerator Challenge at a demo day, which concluded with a share out of a £30,000 prize fund. For the last six months, the ventures have worked with teams from DIF Capital Partners, who have given bespoke mentoring and coaching to help them develop and grow their businesses.
Meet the small businesses at our craft fair
March 4, 2023
Looking for the perfect gift or just a nice treat for yourself!?
Head over to our Allia Future Business Centre at Guildhall, Cambridge on Saturday 4th March for our Craft Fair where we welcome you to browse the handmade crafts & sustainable gifts.
Orlene’s Kitchen – bringing soul to the heart of Cambridge
February 20, 2023
Meet the team behind Orlene’s Kitchen, the vibrant new Jamaican café that recently opened in the community space at our Cambridge Guildhall centre. We chatted to Orlene and Leon to find out more about how their business started and what their hopes are for the hottest new venture in town!
That’s a wrap! Accelerator Challenge concludes with sell out Demo Day
February 9, 2023
Last week we were excited to welcome investors, founders and interested parties from across the impact space to our packed BRAN Accelerator Challenge Demo Day, where eight inspiring ventures hit the stage to pitch for investment and shout about the amazing work they are doing to better our society and planet.
FOTOGRAF – The life of young people in Uganda, through their eyes
January 16, 2023
Last week saw the opening of award-winning photographer Julian Claxton’s latest exhibition, Fotograf, at our Future Business Centre at the Cambridge Guildhall. Established in 2015, Fotograf (previously Give a Child a Camera) is a programme of photography workshops designed to ‘enrich, inspire and empower’ young people in East Africa. The resulting exhibition is a collection of uplifting, insightful images taken by Ugandan children, capturing their authentic stories from their own perspective
Investors! Come and meet the next big things in impact innovation!
January 12, 2023
From fields such as food waste reduction, transforming plastic into low-carbon building products to building nature-related intelligence gathering – all of the ventures on our Accelerator Challenge are addressing global challenges in innovative ways. And we want you to meet them!
Female Founders accelerator – your questions answered by the Allia team
December 19, 2022
Find out about our next Impact Accelerator, which has a female founders focus as we cover your questions from our info session.
Deputy Mayor officially opens Allia’s new building on its growing Cambridge Campus
November 11, 2022
Second centre on Allia’s north Cambridge Campus provides more flexible workspace & free venture support to growing businesses
Welcoming Cambridge Cyrenians community allotment project
October 24, 2022
We recently welcomed a group from a local homelessness charity to our Future Business Centre in Cambridge who take part in a community allotment project – who came laden with a stall of fresh produce picked just that morning.
