MEMBERS OLD

Meet some of MeWe360’s current and past members

CURRENT MEMBERS

Ibukun Baldwin, founder of Bukky Baldwin
Ibukun Baldwin, founder of Bukky Baldwin: an ethical fashion and textiles company based in Manchester aiming to empower marginalised communities.
Cassie Quarless & Usayd Younis, co-founders of black & brown
Cassie Quarless & Usayd Younis, co-founders of black & brown: a London-based production company that centres people of colour through challenging and exciting films.
Karen Jelenje, founder of Activate The City!
Karen Jelenje, founder of Activate The City!: a youth-led social enterprise that empowers young people by helping them activate vacant and underused spaces to drive social change in the communities that need it the most.
Simon Butler, founder of Migrate Art: a social enterprise that supports displaced communities by raising money for grassroots charities through contemporary art.
Simon Butler, founder of Migrate Art: a social enterprise that supports displaced communities by raising money for grassroots charities through contemporary art.
Bola Obileye, founder of Jitterbug: a brand that creates products to celebrate and support your vitality, giving you the feel-good energy you need to find your natural rhythm and turn your day around.
Bola Obileye, founder of Jitterbug: a brand that creates products to celebrate and support your vitality, giving you the feel-good energy you need to find your natural rhythm and turn your day around.
Zeina Ashour, founder of WonderJunkie:
an immersive theatre company which explores the magic and mystery of the world.
Zeina Ashour, founder of WonderJunkie: an immersive theatre company which explores the magic and mystery of the world.
Ryan Mario Yasin, founder of Petit Pli
Ryan Mario Yasin, founder of Petit Pli: a fashion brand that designs out waste across the entire garment value chain by engineering versatile garments that grow with the wearer.
Karla Williams, co-founder of Ms Mono Productions: an award-winning production company that tells bold and original female centred stories with a goal to increase female representation within the film and TV Industry.
Karla Williams, co-founder of Ms Mono Productions: an award-winning production company that tells bold and original female centred stories with a goal to increase female representation within the film and TV Industry.
Petra Akinsiku, co-founder of S.C.R.E.A.M: a not-for-profit collective dedicated to generating content specifically targeted toward raising awareness for Sickle Cell Disease.
Petra Akinsiku, co-founder of S.C.R.E.A.M: a not-for-profit collective dedicated to generating content specifically targeted toward raising awareness for Sickle Cell Disease.
Tunde Adekoya, founder of Big People Music: a Manchester based creative agency curating and producing art innovation projects worldwide, utilising a network of established and emerging creatives.
Tunde Adekoya, founder of Big People Music: a Manchester based creative agency curating and producing art innovation projects worldwide, utilising a network of established and emerging creatives.
Bola Awoniyi & Tobi Oredein, co-founders of Black Ballad
Bola Awoniyi & Tobi Oredein, co-founders of Black Ballad: a UK-based lifestyle platform that seeks to tell the human experience through eyes of black British women.
Akin Akinsiku is a co- founder of Five Apples, creators of BAFTA nominated and ‘Broadcast award’ winning Apple Treehouse drama series on the BBC.
Akin Akinsiku is a co- founder of Five Apples, creators of BAFTA nominated and ‘Broadcast award’ winning Apple Treehouse drama series on the BBC.
Angela Awuah, founder of Mental Health The Arts: an early intervention creative arts academy for young people between the ages of 13 and 25 with direct and indirect experience of mental illness.
Angela Awuah, founder of Mental Health The Arts: an early intervention creative arts academy for young people between the ages of 13 and 25 with direct and indirect experience of mental illness.
Edward Brial, John Bertolaso, & Edward Hill, co-founders of hydroCotton
Edward Brial, John Bertolaso, & Edward Hill, co-founders of hydroCotton: a startup helping fashion companies reduce their environmental impact by growing radically sustainable cotton in a transparent way.
Rachael Perrin, co-founder of Soundcastle
Rachael Perrin, co-founder of Soundcastle: a organisation that connects communities through expressive music-making and promotes broader imaginative thinking through coaching for creative practitioners, social entrepreneurs and training for arts facilitators.

MeWe Alumni

Over the past 7 years, MeWe has supported over 3,500 creative entrepreneurs across the UK through tailored business support, coaching, access to space, networks and finance.

Here is a selection of some of our alumni:

David Newell, Founder of Newell Bespoke
David Newell, Founder of Newell Bespoke

“With MeWe you are literally skipping over months, or even years, of trial and error. I’m light years ahead of where I used to be.”

newellbespoke.com

Amman Ahmed, founder of Music for Pets
Amman Ahmed, founder of Music for Pets

“MeWe has had such a huge impact on me. It allowed me to establish a lot of clarity. In terms of the growth of my business, my MeWe mentor has been the most valuable person I have spoken to in the whole of 2016 and so far, in 2017.”

http://musicforpets.co

Ahmed Faid, founder and CEO of Dose of Society: a socially powered video platform for fresh, unheard voices with a mission to share amazing stories from ‘real’ people with real stories’; talk about challenging subjects & take conversations out of the usual silos.
Ahmed Faid, founder and CEO of Dose of Society: a socially powered video platform for fresh, unheard voices with a mission to share amazing stories from ‘real’ people with real stories’; talk about challenging subjects & take conversations out of the usual silos.

“Being at MeWe has been an amazing experience. It has helped us hone our business and ourselves as individuals.”

doseofsociety.co

Michael Asante, co-founder of Boy Blue
Michael Asante, co-founder of Boy Blue

“As part of the work done at MeWe our organisational structures have been defined and simplified really well.”

boyblueent.com

Bola Marquis, Founder of ÒKUN
Bola Marquis, Founder of ÒKUN

“The incubator programme was a no brainer. What I got was a consultant from my industry who could fine tune my business plan very specifically for my sector.”

welcome.okunlife.com

Sharlayne Flanders, founder of Project Noir
Sharlayne Flanders, founder of Project Noir

“Being at MeWe360 has given me the discipline to pursue things, given me structure and allowed myself to set goals.”

projectnoirhub.com

Skanda Skabbagh, co-founder of Everyone’s Climbing Tree
Skanda Skabbagh, co-founder of Everyone’s Climbing Tree

“The clarity MeWe has given is big.  The business plan influenced our work. Lots of our services were informal and it helped give it a structure. My MeWe mentor was amazing at breaking down a complex problem into something minimal. At flash points it made a big difference.”

everyonesclimbingtree.co.uk/

Ben Ryan, Co-Founder and Director of Signifier
Ben Ryan, Co-Founder and Director of Signifier

“It’s a pivotal moment for what it symbolises in terms of different worlds that might not have met without an organisation like MeWe.”

signifier.org

Nii Lartey, COO of Dose of Society
Nii Lartey, COO of Dose of Society

“We are now in LA California, in the last few weeks at the SnapChat Incubator having received investment. MeWe has been extremely helpful in the whole process. We are excited to come back to London, to come back to MeWe and take things to the next level.”

doseofsociety.co

The Triforce Creative Network
The Triforce Creative Network

“The relationship with the mentors has been the main benefit – including advice on HR and managing our team.”

thetcn.com

Nadine Marsh Edwards, co-founder of Greenacre
Nadine Marsh Edwards, co-founder of Greenacre

“MeWe provides us with fantastic people to talk to – having that third party has been invaluable to us as a business”.

greenacrefilms.com/

Melanie Keen, Iniva
Melanie Keen, Iniva

“The 1-1 mentoring has already been incredibly enriching for us as we investigate one new income stream in particular. Working with a mentor who has experience of the both the not for profit / publicly funded arts and culture world as well as hard-nosed commercialism of consultancy, has been very beneficial.”

iniva.org

Rachel Drummond Hay, co-founder of Drummer TV
Rachel Drummond Hay, co-founder of Drummer TV

“It has been invaluable to have a space where I’m not firefighting with the daily challenges of running our company, but am able to think about the bigger picture and better ways to address this. Also, to share experiences and learn from others in the group.”

www.drummertelevision.com

Rukhsana Mosam, Creative Director of Ten66
Rukhsana Mosam, Creative Director of Ten66

“Being part of the MeWe Incubator has enabled me to understand the financial side of our business.  Plus, there is the chance to form permanent working relationships with other MeWe members which we have already done, forging a potential co-production with other content producers who specialise in drama.”

www.ten66.tv

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