Grassroots

Taylor Wessing Free legal drop-in clinic
2024-10-30 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom
Taylor Wessing is a recent joiner to the Grassroots and will be supporting the entrepreneurial community with free “drop-in clinic” to address any of your legal challenges.

James Homan (a partner in Corporate Technology Group) and Nicola Caton (senior associate), as well as other members of the TW team, will be running the clinic.

TW is a global law firm known for supporting technology and life science companies through the life cycle from “cradle to liquidity”, from obtaining investment funding (from seed to series D and beyond), to launching and licensing products, protecting data and IP rights, and delivering successful exits for founders and investors.

Free legal drop-in clinic

The free “drop-in clinic” is open to all companies within the Grassroots and Oxford Trust community. No booking is required and will be initially held in either Meeting Room 1 or Meeting Room 2 in Grassroots.

Given the TW sector focus, the drop-in clinic will be of most value to tech and life sciences start-ups, companies and investors, but the firm advises across four main sectors, covering:

Technology, media and communications
Life sciences and healthcare
Real Estate, infrastructure and energy
Private wealth

The clinic with run on Wednesdays in two-week cycles.

About Taylor Wessing
Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world’s most innovative people and businesses.
TW are ranked band 1 for VC capabilities (across all legal directories) and uniquely the only firm also with a band 1 ranked biotechnology practice. TW Corporate Technology team advise on 300+ venture and growth funding rounds a year as well M&A transactions for exiting founders, companies and investors.
For its early-stage companies, TW can offer a heavily discounted package of services, most of them on a fixed fee basis.
Do feel free to reach-out our Taylor Wessing “lawyers in residence” (!) should you have any queries.
j.homan@taylorwessing.com
n.caton@taylorwessing.com

Knights - Professionals On Hand (Real Estate)
2024-10-31, 2024-12-05 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom
Knights is a recent joiner to Grassroots and will be supporting the entrepreneurial community with professionals on hand to address any of your legal challenges.
Knights is a legal and professional services business with 1,000+ professionals delivering high-quality services to over 10,000 business clients from 23 office locations across the UK.
Knights will have members of the team here in Grassroots throughout November and December who specialize in:

Asset Management
Property Litigation
Dispute Resolution
Property Management
Development & Consumer Law
Regulatory Law
Commercial Law
Employment Law
Dispute Resolution
Immigration Law

Pizza & Wine Down
2024-10-31 15:00 - 17:00 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom
Join us at the end of the month for some pizza, wine, and an opportunity to mingle with the fellow Grassroots community!
We look forward to seeing you all there.

Knights - Professionals On Hand (Regulatory)
2024-11-05 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom

Knights - Professionals On Hand (Real Estate & Regulatory Law)
2024-11-07 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom

Knights - Professionals On Hand (Commercial & Corporate Law)
2024-11-12 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom

Get Support - Cyber Security Essentials: Protect Your Business
2024-11-12 | Online
Get Support are hosting a seminar on the 12th of November; Cyber Security Essentials: Protect Your Business. This will be an engaging event that will cover the critical need for a robust cyber security strategy, delve into the Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover framework, and provide practical advice on further protection measures including Phishing MFA. We’ll also explore advanced options to fortify your business against cyber threats. After the seminar, Get Support experts will be available for a face-to-face clinic with Grassroots, offering advice to help you enhance your cyber security posture. Furthermore, all businesses in attendance the opportunity to book a FREE Cyber Security GAP Analysis, worth up to £1,000!
If any of you are interested, please email, or let us know at reception and we will get you booked in!

Free Coaching Drop-in with Claudia Filsinger, Moving Maps Ltd.
2024-11-12 09:00 - 17:00, 2024-12-10 09:00 - 17:00 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom
Claudia Filsinger, executive coach and founder of Moving Maps Ltd. will support the Grassroots and Oxford Trust communities by providing a thinking space and being a sounding board with no agenda for any of your work challenges or growth opportunities.
Coaching supports you in expanding your thinking through deep listening, questions, mirroring back, exploring and challenging limiting beliefs, assumptions and potential blind spots. Coaches don’t give advice but help you to uncover the solutions you might not know yet that you know already!
You can use the coaching to reflect on current or future challenges, but also to learn from past events. Common coaching topics you could bring:

Generating and evaluating options for problem-solving or decision making

Transitioning into new roles

Increasing personal effectiveness and communication

People management & leadership

Managing the “inner critical voice” and imposter syndrome

Preparing for challenging or high-stakes conversations or meetings

Managing conflict

Supporting the people-side of change before or after restructuring or M&A

Stakeholder management

This free “Coaching drop-in” is open to all companies within the Grassroots and Oxford Trust Community. No booking is required and it will be held in Grassroots. Drop-in on the day in person or email claudia.filsinger@moving-maps.com to receive a Zoom link for an online meeting. Coaching drop-ins are usually 30-45mins long and coachees are often surprised how much can be achieved within a short, one-off coaching conversation!
About Claudia Filsinger, Executive Coach and Founder of Moving Maps Ltd.
Claudia is a highly versatile and experienced coach and facilitator, having worked with clients in a wide range of companies, industries, geographies, functions and seniority for 15 years. She founded Moving Maps LTD. to make systemic and visual self-coaching tools accessible to her clients. Her corporate background is in international sales and learning & development roles in the IT/tech and media industries. She has also lectured in business, management and coaching at Oxford Brookes Business School.

Knights - Professionals On Hand (Regulatory Law)
2024-11-14, 2024-12-03, 2024-12-17 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom

The Marketing Meetup
2024-11-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom
Grassroots is excited to host another Marketing Meetup!
The Marketing Meetup is an informal, friendly place for the marketers of Oxford to meet, learn, and share knowledge with one another. Come in ‘listen’ not ‘sell’ mode 🙂 Think of this as a community event, where the focus is very much on you meeting other people in a chilled-out friendly space. We’ll chat over food and drink, listen to an inspirational speaker or two, chat some more, and go home buzzing with new contacts and new ideas.
The format of the night:
6.00 pm – doors open – drinks, networking, and smiles
6.30 pm – introduction and talks begin
7.15 pm – talks finish, networking, listening, saying hello, and positively lovely people – a nice chilled out time 🙂
7.45 pm – end of the night – you leave with new contacts and fresh ideas
Supported by Sharp Ahead, a full service B2B digital marketing agency serving organisations with specialist B2B products and services. Check them out at https://sharpahead.com
This is a donation ticketed event. The ticket price is yours to choose, from £3 to £30 🙂
Please let your marketing friends and colleagues know about this group too, I hope to build it into a great resource for the community over the coming months and years. Attendance will be taken at this event. If you sign up but don’t show up, this has a knock on effect on event arrangements. If it happens 3 times, you’re outta here! This is simply a measure to allow appropriate respect to the organizers, speakers, sponsors, and your fellow community members 🙂

Knights - Professionals On Hand (Employment Law)
2024-11-19, 2024-11-21, 2024-12-12 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom

The Innovation Roundtable - UK Property Forums
2024-11-19 12:15 - 14:15 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom
THE INNOVATION ROUNDTABLE – OXFORDSHIRE
HOME OF THE UNICORN?
We are pleased to invite Grassroots members to a Round Table Lunch which will explore with a select group of invitees how Oxfordshire can encourage fast-growing companies to locate in the region & what these companies will require in their journey to becoming ‘Unicorn’ companies. Against the backdrop of the Government’s Budget, this will draw upon the many issues needed to encourage future growth in Oxfordshire.
RVSP: info@ukpropertyforums.com

Activating Networks for Success: Leveraging Connections in Life Sciences and BioPharma
2024-11-21 17:00 - 20:00 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom
Conexen are an independent group of healthcare executives across various disciplines and corporate cultures that value relationship and community building at all stages of people’s careers. They are driven by radical generosity, which means that their main purpose is to proactively share their collective pool of resources, where people with common backgrounds and interests can exchange information, trends, and innovative ideas to collaborate and give back in a relaxed setting.
This panel will inspire you to shift from transactional networking to creating real, transformative change in biotech and healthcare.
Tickets can be found here – https://conexen.net/conexen-events/conexen-oxford-november/

Developing Intelligent Solutions with AI and Unlocking GPT’s Power
2024-11-28 09:30 - 11:00 | Online
Thursday 28th of November from 9:30am – 11am, Microsoft Teams
A new initiative designed to bring industry-leading insights to local businesses has officially launched. The Oxford Innovation Sessions, a series of six exclusive talks, will feature experts from top companies including Microsoft, Barclays, and Oxford Innovation Finance, covering cutting-edge topics in Artificial Intelligence, Business Development, Marketing, and more.
The Oxford Innovation Sessions aim to address some of the most pressing challenges faced by businesses today, from securing financing and leveraging new technologies, to navigating the evolving digital marketing landscape.
The Oxford Innovation Sessions will run from now until March 2025, with events exclusively available to Oxford Innovation Space customers.
Each session will feature a 30-minute talk from a leading expert followed by interactive Q&A, all streamed live online. The first event, “Developing Intelligent Solutions with AI and Unlocking GPT’s Power”, will be led by Michael Gillett & Paul Veck from Microsoft on Thursday.

Investor Showcase - The Hill
2024-11-28 10:00 - 14:00 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom
Are you looking to gain investment in your digital health innovation or business? You might be interested in pitching to investors as part of our upcoming Investor Showcase event.
Taking place this November in Oxford City Centre, The Hill are offering companies with digital innovations the opportunity to pitch to their investor panel on the 28 November 2024.
TheHill’s mission is to help, support and scale innovative technologies which can improve on patient care and reduce the pressure on frontline staff.
Register here and find more details here: https://www.thehilloxford.org/events/investor-showcase-2/

Adapt. Improvise. Grow. Your Powerful Playbook for Workplace Excellence.
2024-12-05 17:00 - 18:00
Adapt. Improvise. Grow.
Your Powerful Playbook for Workplace Excellence.
Thurs 5th Dec | 5-6pm | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road | FREE

A one-hour demo & networking event where you’ll have the opportunity to join in our engaging skill-building activities that will help grow your business.

For leaders and teams, here’s something game-changing: learn transformational improv techniques. It’s a secret weapon for building a more adaptable, creative and connected workplace that you can apply in work immediately.

When Google & Disney wanted innovation & storytelling workshops, they came to us.

Now you too can learn the skills needed to navigate uncertainty + co-create with ease. Crack how to make meetings matter + re-energise your time together.

We love that moment when the penny drops and our clients see the value of the LIFEPASS improvisation principles.

We start with refreshments at 5pm in the Grassroots Workspace at 46 Woodstock Road. Free pizza included. Places are limited to only 20 spots, so sign up now to secure yours and see for yourself.
https://impro.org.uk/services-products/training/oxford-demo/

Details
Date:
Thursday 5th December
Time:
5pm-6pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Members Only
Event Tags:
Grassroots
Organiser
Paul Jackson Associates
Phone
+44 (0) 7973 953 586
Email
ed@impro.org.uk
View Organiser Website
Venue
Grassroots Workspace

Knights - Professionals On Hand (Immigration Law)
2024-12-19 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom

It’s time to celebrate! Join us at our Jingle & Mingle Party!!!
2024-12-20 15:00 - 17:00
It’s time to celebrate! Join us at our Jingle & Mingle Party!!!
Join us for a festive Christmas Party with all the Grassroots members alongside some snacks, drinks, and holiday fun! 😊
We will meet around 3pm in the kitchen area where we can all share our highlights of 2024 and what the future will bring in 2025.
All members are welcome, and please, do wear your favourite Christmas jumper! 😊
On this occasion we want to thank you for all the support throughout the year and we are looking forward to another year, with each and all of you, here at Grassroots!

MERRY CHRISTAMS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR – from all the Grassroots team!

Norbert, LLiwen & Giulia ❤

NATIONAL CLEAN OFF YOUR DESK DAY
2025-01-13
NATIONAL CLEAN OFF YOUR DESK DAY

The second Monday of January each year recognizes National Clean Off Your Desk Day.
#CleanOffYourDeskDay
This day is an opportunity to begin your new year with a clean and organized workspace. Whether your desk is in a private or shared office, cubicle, home or a make-shift desk on the counter, having your workspace uncluttered and organized will help you work more efficiently. A clean workspace improves productivity and inspires us, too. It often gives us a sense of serenity.
Happy #CleanOffYourDeskDay to all our members! 🙂
All the best,
GR Team

"Unlock Funding Opportunities with Barclays Demo Directory" with Mark Walker and Alistair Drew-yeates from Barclays Eagle Labs.
2025-01-22 11:00 - 13:00
Hello,
We are pleased to invite you to the next Oxford Innovation Space Sessions event.
“Unlock Funding Opportunities with Barclays Demo Directory” with Mark Walker and Alistair Drew-yeates from Barclays Eagle Labs.
This exclusive session will teach you how to showcase your business to attractive investors and introduce you to Demo Directly. You will get to hear success stories from founders who have used the platform, and discover key insights about investor engagement and funding trends.
Date: 22nd Jan
Time: 11:00am – 1:00pm
Location: Live stream via LinkedIn & YouTube
Please register your place using the button below, and we look forward to seeing you there.

Unlock Funding Opportunities with Barclays Demo Directory Tickets, Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM | Eventbrite

All the best,
GR team

NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CAKE DAY in Grassroots
2025-01-27 13:00 - 15:30
NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CAKE DAY
Celebrating the cake more people favor. And more often than not, we celebrate our special occasions like anniversaries, birthdays and weddings with cake. Why not enjoy chocolate cake on January 27th every year?
#ChocolateCakeDay
All over the world, chocolate was consumed primarily as a beverage until the 1830s or 40s. Chocolate cakes, as we think of them today, mostly did not exist then. According to the Dover Post, the chocolate cake was born in 1765 when a doctor and a chocolate maker teamed up in an old mill. They ground up cocoa beans between huge millstones to make a thick syrup. The liquid was poured into molds shaped like cakes, which were meant to be transformed into a beverage. A popular Philadelphia cookbook author, Eliza Leslie, published the earliest chocolate cake recipe in 1847 in The Lady’s Receipt Book. Unlike chocolate cakes we know today, this recipe used chopped chocolate. Other cooks of the time such as Sarah Tyson Rorer and Maria Parloa all made contributions to the development of the chocolate cake and were prolific authors of cookbooks.
All members are free to join us in the kitchen area at lunchtime, where we will be sharing different sorts of chocolate cakes!
#ChocolateCakeDay
All the best,
GR team

The Leadership Legacy: Passing the Torch - Conexen
2025-01-29 18:00 - 20:30
Welcome to CONEXEN Oxford – a warm and welcoming hub for professionals in pharma, biotech, life sciences, and health tech in Oxford! Here, we invite you to join us for an informal and friendly gathering where connections are made, knowledge is shared, and friendships are formed. Come with an open heart and a willingness to “listen” rather than “sell.”

We will be hosting our next Oxford event at Grassroots Workspace. Our events are run in a casual setting where we can come together, exchange greetings, engage in conversation and simply enjoy a pleasant time.
Picture this as more than just an event—it’s a community gathering. Our focus is on providing you with an opportunity to meet fellow professionals in a relaxed and amiable environment. We’ll share conversations over delicious food and drinks, and leave with a sense of excitement and a pocketful of new contacts and ideas.
Join us for an evening surrounded by incredible people, and let’s make it a night to remember. Looking forward to sharing good company and creating memorable connections!
Panel: The Leadership Legacy: Passing the Torch Moderated by Helen Bligh (Helen Bligh Consulting & Coaching) – Panellists: To be announced

The format of the night:
Wednesday 29th January 2025
18.00 – doors open – drinks, networking, and meeting great people
18.30 Panel and talks start
19.15 – Drinks, food and networking
20.30 – end of the night – you leave with new contacts and fresh ideas
Venue: Grassroots Workspace – 46 Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6HT
This event is proudly supported by FINN Partners, Johnsons Laboratory Logistics, Oxford Technology Park (Life Science REIT), Source Bioscience and Weatherden.
And finally…
This is a ticketed event (£15). Food and drinks included.

Please register here for the event: CONEXEN Oxford January – Conexen
Please let your colleagues and industry friends know about us, we hope to build it into a great resource for the Oxford community over the coming months and years. Attendance will be taken at this event. If you register but don’t show up, this has a knock on effect on event arrangements. If it happens 3 times, we may need to reconsider your participation. This is simply a measure to allow appropriate respect to the organisers, speakers, sponsors, and your fellow Conexers.
See you there!

Oxford Organisers

World Cancer Day Awareness
2025-02-04
World Cancer Day is an international day observed every 4 February to raise awareness about cancer, encourage its prevention, and mobilise action to address the global cancer epidemic.

The day is led by the  Union for International Cancer Control  (UICC) and was established in the year 2000.
By catalysing personal, collective and government action, we are all working together to reimagine a world where millions of cancer deaths are prevented and access to life-saving cancer treatment and care is equitable for all no matter who you are and where you live.
Each year, hundreds of activities and events take place around the world, gathering communities, organisations and individuals in schools, businesses, hospitals, marketplaces, parks, community halls, places of worship – in the streets and online – acting as a powerful reminder  that we all have a role to play in reducing the global impact of cancer.

UICC runs World Cancer Day campaigns in three-year cycles to allow for a deeper exploration of a particular theme and achieve greater impact.

The World Cancer Day theme 2025-2027, “United by Unique” places people at the centre of care and explores new ways of making a difference.
Cancer is more than just a medical diagnosis—it’s a deeply personal matter. Behind every diagnosis lies a unique human story – stories of grief, pain, healing, resilience, love and more.

That’s why a people-centred approach to cancer care that fully integrates each individual’s unique needs, with compassion and empathy, leads to the best health outcomes.
Every experience with cancer is unique and it will take all of us, united, to create a world where we look beyond the disease and see the person before the patient. A world where the needs of people and communities are at the centre of health systems.
We are spreading awareness to all our members about this special day and for more information about this day , we recommend to see more at : https://www.worldcancerday.org/about

Adapt. Improvise. Grow. Your Powerful Playbook for Workplace Excellence.
2025-02-13 17:00 - 18:00
Adapt. Improvise. Grow.
Your Powerful Playbook for Workplace Excellence.
Thursday 13th February | 5-6pm | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road | FREE

A one-hour demo & networking event where you’ll have the opportunity to join in our engaging skill-building activities that will help grow your business.

For leaders and teams, here’s something game-changing: learn transformational improv techniques. It’s a secret weapon for building a more adaptable, creative and connected workplace that you can apply in work immediately.

When Google & Disney wanted innovation & storytelling workshops, they came to us.

Now you too can learn the skills needed to navigate uncertainty + co-create with ease. Crack how to make meetings matter + re-energise your time together.

We love that moment when the penny drops and our clients see the value of the LIFEPASS improvisation principles.

We start with refreshments at 5pm in the Grassroots Workspace at 46 Woodstock Road. Free pizza included. Places are limited to only 20 spots, so sign up now to secure yours and see for yourself.

Button: <Yes, I want to come!>
Link for button: https://impro.org.uk/services-products/training/oxford-demo/

Details
Date:
Thursday 13th February
Time:
5pm-6pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Members Only
Event Tags:
Grassroots
Organiser
Paul Jackson Associates
Phone
+44 (0) 7973 953 586
Email
ed@impro.org.uk
View Organiser Website
Venue
Grassroots Workspace
