South: Barclays announces major sponsorship with Southern Entrepreneurs

Barclays has announced a major sponsorship with Southern Entrepreneurs - the campaign run by The Business Magazine that brings together entrepreneurial owner-managers, high-net-worth individuals and business angels from across the Thames Valley and Solent region.

The announcement highlights Barclays High Growth and Entrepreneurs commitment to support scale-ups and their founders, in direct response to Britain’s scale-up gap and helping the UK to compete on the global stage, by supporting the ambitions of local high-growth businesses and entrepreneurs.

As part of the partnership Barclays will provide experts and host events to support Southern Entrepreneurs’ various programmes to provide a platform for talented, successful business founders and serial entrepreneurs to share experiences and best practice.

Juliet Rogan, co-head of Barclays High Growth & Entrepreneurs business, explains how the partnership with Southern Entrepreneurs has developed: “We share Southern Entrepreneurs ambition to support our innovative entrepreneurs, and we’ve been impressed with the impact Southern Entrepreneurs has had over recent years.

“Running any fast-moving, high-growth company takes a substantial investment, from both and emotional and financial perspective. It’s an investment we at Barclays want to be fully behind. High-growth businesses have a hugely positive impact; they create new jobs, new opportunities for investors and they help to galvanise economic growth as a whole.”

A dedicated team of 50 Barclays High Growth & Entrepreneur relationship directors has been created across the country which includes the Thames Valley and Solent area to support high-growth companies - from start-ups to scale-ups and eventual exit or IPO.

Welcoming the sponsorship Tamsin Napier-Munn at Southern Entrepreneurs said: “We know that the talent and ambition of entrepreneurs in both the Thames Valley and Solent region has the power to change the economic prosperity.  We’re joining forces with Barclays to make that happen.

“We’re delighted to have Barclays as a partner working to support entrepreneurs and helping us to achieve our vision for Thames Valley and Solent to become one of the most entrepreneurial economies of the future.”

Southern Entrepreneurs has profiled in recent years; David Brownlow of Huntswood; Matthew Hare of Gigaclear; Dilshad and Barinder Hothi of The Knowledge Academy; Mike Clare, founder of Dreams; and Jeremy Mogford, Oxford’s entrepreneurial restaurant owner.

At recent events, speakers have included Adam Hale of Fairsail (now Sage People); serial entrepreneur Kevin Gaskell; Will King, founder of King of Shaves; and Nicola Murphy, CEO of content marketing agency The River Group.

The next Southern Entrepreneurs’ event will be an exclusive late-summer drinks party, sponsored by Barclays, and hosted at Bentley Berkshire.

Anyone interested in attending this private event should contact Tamsin Napier-Munn by emailing [email protected]

For more information on how Barclays can support your business growth strategy visit https://entrepreneurs.barclays/