We work with brilliant young people to bring their start-up ideas to life!
Social Ark works with talented and resilient young people from under-resourced East London communities to use their lived experiences to develop social businesses of their own.
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The Investment Ready programme has been our most successful programme to date! We're thrilled that all of our brilliant entrepreneurs got so much out of this programme, we're so proud of how far they've all come during these tough lockdowns - please take a look at what we've been up to ——>
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Our Entrepreneurs
Megan Kavanagh
Megzi Pearls Floristry
Megan has lived in East London all her life and moved to Tower Hamlets after spending several years in temporary accommodation with her young son. She used her passion for flowers to set up Megzi Pearls, a social enterprise florist, that offers professional floristry services and community workshops. A proud moment was providing floristry services for one of Her Majesty the Queen’s personal guards in the Tower of London!
Emmanuel Ebokosia
True Cadence
Manny is the founder of True Cadence, a social enterprise that fuels the passion of young people by educating them on the business side of the music industry. As a platform for artistic expression, True Cadence promotes good mental wellbeing in young people by encouraging them to be passion-driven, creative, innovative, have a sense of agency, and speak their truth.
Sandy Abdelrahman
Skaped
Sandy is the founder of Skaped, a social enterprise that encourages young people to engage with their human rights through creative arts. Skaped is on a mission to raise awareness of human rights to the future generation and encourage them to get involved in social and political matters around the world, but more importantly, what’s happening on their doorsteps!
Moses Adeyemi
The Silver Line Project
Moses is passionate about fitness and mental wellbeing, and has developed The Silver Line Project, a specialist wellbeing programme aimed at empowering people from ‘hard-to-reach’ backgrounds, which has been delivered to housing and community associations, schools and prisons. Moses also delivers corporate wellbeing workshops.
