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Hub Westminster is for all inventors, makers, doers, activists, changemakers, venturists, investors & entrepreneurs.

Let's come together to do the unreasonable - to make today's "business as unusual" the everyday of tomorrow.

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A few members of our community

  • Eugenie Teasley, Spark+Mettle

    A young startup that began in 2011 by Eugenie Teasley, Spark+Mettle is an aspirations agency focused on preparing young people who do not have the connections or resources themselves to map and launch a career that they will love by helping them develop the personal and professional competencies they'll need. Their pilot project called Star Track offers 13 less privileged young people aged 16-24 a free year-long launchpad programme incorporating part-time training, career-focused networking and funded summer work placements.

  • Lisa Warner, Fink Cards

    Fink's mission is to enable better conversations across generations for families, schools, organisations and communities. Conversations that improve relationships solve community's problems, nurture the next generation and have an impact on society. Fink was founded by Lisa Warner, mum of four, to make products that get people talking. She was quickly joined by Sarah Newton, the UK's leading family and youth expert and together the dynamic duo set about changing the way people talk to each other.

    Lisa is one of 2 award winners of the Hub's Village Capital London accelerator programme awarded with £50,000 investment.

  • Chris Busch, Sandbox

    Chris is a co-founder of Sandbox, the leading global network for the most inspiring innovators below 30. Sandbox identifies exceptional people worldwide that already have an impressive impact at a very young age, no matter in what field or industry. The growing community counts 550 young leaders in 45 different countries. Sandbox incubates these talents in an environment where they can build meaningful relationships with like-minded peers, learn from senior leaders and gain access to opportunities that will help them grow.

    Chris is also a Special Advisor for Social Entrepreneurship at the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE), a TEDster, and teaches entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics.

  • Alejandro Litovsky, Earth Security Initiative

    Alejandro Litovsky is the founder and director of the Earth Security Initiative, an organization promoting actionable and creative ideas to increase how financial markets, industry, government and civil society collaborate to keep our civilization within ecological limits. He was recently awarded the BMW World Young Leader Award 2012 by the BMW Foundation in Germany. He is a Board Member of LEAD International, a global organisation inspiring leadership for a sustainable world; and a member of the Steering Committee of the Natural Value Initiative, a program led by institutional investors to benchmark corporate, industrial and financial risks associated with the loss of biodiversity and ecosystems.

    For the last ten years Alejandro held senior positions at business and sustainability think tank in London. In 2004 he was awarded the Hobhouse Memorial Prize by the London School of Economics where he obtained his MSc in Political Sociology. Prior to that was an investment manager with the AVINA Foundation in Latin America.

    Click here to watch a video by the BMW Foundation of the ESI.

  • Uttama Patel, South Asian Parent

    Uttama is editor and founder of SouthAsianParent.com, the world's first parenting magazine for South Asian families, targeted at those who face a conflict between their own cultural values and those of the country they're living in. South Asian Parent aims to be a catalyst for change in the Asian family system, and provides a platform to get people talking about things they might otherwise avoid--so they don't have to hide their true identities, or lead conflicted lives.

  • Ifung Lu, Guanxin Design

    Dr Ifung Lu is an award winning product designer and mechanical engineer. Having come from a background in product innovation in the healthcare sector, first at MIT Media Lab then at Johnson & Johnson, Ifung is now a partner of Guanxin, a design & development collective focused on tackling issues in healthcare and education through social, mobile and the maker movement.

    He is currently working as one of 5 successful teams selected to develop solutions to the Design Council Living Well with Dementia challenge.

  • Fiona Marshall, Not Mass Produced

    Fiona established notmassproduced.com as an online marketplace dedicated to promoting artisans and individual makers of small businesses to redistribute wealth in favour of the artisans with ethical and eco-friendly practices. Notmassproduced.com's ambition is to reduce carbon footprints and help the economy by helping shoppers to buy local and encourage creativity, contributing to making the world a better place.

    Fiona is one of 2 award winners of the Hub's Village Capital London accelerator programme and where she was awarded a £50,000 investment.

  • Imogen Martineau, Martineau & Co.

    Imogen is an expert in the field of communications and sustainability, with a particular interest in behaviour change and low-budget communications. Martineau & Co provides communications services to organisations committed to social and environmental change, including the Fairtrade Foundation, the Climate Group and the United Nations.

    Prior to launching Martineau & Co, Imogen was Head of Communications at Forum for the Future for three years where she set up the communications team, re-branded the organisation and launched its new website.