Targówek District Entrepreneurs' Club
About this good practice
Targówek Municipality cooperates with entrepreneurs in organizing local meetings with dedicated company owners. There is an entrepreneurship board that cooperates with the municipality. The main aim of the meetings is to integrate local SMEs by organizing open networking meetings.
Targówek is a large district (approx. 120 000 inhabitants). Entrepreneurs didn’t cooperate with each other because they didn’t know each other. Thanks to open and free of charge networking meetings organized in Targówek District Office, they can integrate, share their knowledge and develop their businesses by contact with other business owners. They establish local cooperation and recommend their products and services.
Resources needed
Very small or even no funding required. The crucial resource is a person in the municipality who organises and coordinates local networking meetings. Small funds: refreshments and promotion. The municipality provides the space for meetings and shares information about the events.
Evidence of success
Every networking meeting gathers around 20-30 entrepreneurs and shows one of the business issues. From the beginning, we organized approx. 80 meetings. Cooperation between municipality and entrepreneurs is long-term and effective. Local business owners are engaged in this cooperation because they can promote their business, gain new clients and business partners. They also willingly share their knowledge and help each other.
Potential for learning or transfer
Targówek District Entrepreneurs' Club has a big potential to transfer because it can be done without a huge amount of money and entrepreneurs willingly join this club. A club is a good place for entrepreneurs who started their business and want to gain new business contacts or just want to develop their companies or just looking for inspiration to grow. The mechanism is very easy – connect people on the interesting meetings. The key factor is to share the responsibility with entrepreneurs and let them take care of the Club and share the networking idea among their friends and business partners.
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