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Darina from Suklaa is over the moon at having recently become part of the Sandbox Network. We first heard about this brilliant organisation a couple of months ago when we read about TED X Volcano. Some of the TED X Volcano organisers are part of Sandbox.

So what is Sandbox?

Sandbox is a global community of hand-selected young achievers and innovators under 30. We help inspiring young leaders from all fields build meaningful relationships and realize their next big idea. What do you want to achieve next?

Kristian and Darina attended their first London Sandbox dinner last week where they met young entrepreneurs from all over the world. Great to connect with and to keep us on our toes! One of the attendees at the dinner was the very inspiring Fraser Doherty who started his company Superjam at the ripe(!) old age of just 14. Watch this space for more about our Sandbox connections.

Links:
Sandbox Network

We tendered and we got it! -NESTA idiscover

Suklaa have a fantastic network of people that we work with and Claudia Barwell is an example of someone who quite simply makes our lives better. Claudia is a project and events manager extraordinaire, she’s organised, inspiring and a master of charm. (She’s also quite posh.)

Darina (Co-Director of Suklaa) and Claudia recently teamed up and put together a tender for the idiscover Programme Manager post for Nesta (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts). We are very excited to say that we were successful!

The idiscover programme is happening in London and Manchester- over the next two years- and we are working with the London Schools who are all part of The Harris Federation in South East London. idiscover is all about developing the innovative capacity of young people by giving them access to a vast range of experiences produced by dynamic learning providers. The programme will put power into the hands of young people and aims to foster some of the skills essential for innovation such as creativity, self-belief, energy, leadership and risk-taking within the cohort of students.

We’re expecting great things!

Links:
Nesta
The Harris Federation
idiscover -website

About Nesta:

NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts – a unique body with a mission to make the UK more innovative. We invest in early-stage companies, inform and shape policy, and deliver practical programmes that inspire others to solve the big challenges of the future.