Grassroots

Knights - Professionals On Hand (Immigration Law)
2024-12-19 | 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

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

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

Free Coaching Drop-in with Claudia Filsinger, Moving Maps Ltd.
2024-12-10 09:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-12 09:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-15 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | 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.

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 (Real Estate)
2024-12-05, 2024-10-31 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom

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/

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.

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/

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

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 🙂

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!

Knights - Professionals On Hand (Commercial & Corporate Law)
2024-11-12 | 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 (Regulatory)
2024-11-05 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom

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.

Taylor Wessing Free legal drop-in clinic
2024-10-30 09:00 - 17:00 | 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

Start-up Huddle Oxford Networking Event
2024-10-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Westgate Library
Come and network with Startup founders and entrepreneurs in the Business & IP Centre, Oxford Westgate Library.
Startup Huddle is designed to help one entrepreneur at a time while strengthening the local Oxfordshire ecosystem. With 1 or 2 preselected start-ups presenting their business followed by QA and plenty of time for networking.
Entrepreneurs discover solutions to the challenges they face through purposeful engagement with a broad array of voices from the Oxfordshire community.
Participants encouraged to support one another with their local links, knowledge and insights. With a great opportunity to explore all of the facilities and resources available to access for free at Oxfordshire Business & IP Centre.
Hot and cold refreshments included.

World Food Day
2024-10-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom
Join us at the Grassroots Kitchen to celebrate World Food Day.
We would love it if our members could contribute and bring along a dish from their home country!
We look forward to seeing you all there!

CAMentrepreneurs In Oxford!
2024-10-14 18:30 - 21:00 | Grassroots Workspace, 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT, United Kingdom
Grassroots Workspace are proud to be hosting CAMentrepreneurs autumn event for entrepreneurs, investors, students and others on Monday 14th October at our home.
As with other CAMentrepreneurs events the main focus will be on structured networking so you can make plenty of new connections. Past successes have included new friends, investments, finding a co-founder and just old fashioned free advice from people who have been there!
Special Guest Elliott Cooper, Global Professional Stunt Performer, Professional Gymnast, Former Captain of England, 2022 ITF Taekwondo World Champion and founder of 3 start-ups will be asking the question “Are you boring enough to be World Class?”
Sponsored by Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP and hosted by Jon Hill Linkedin and Richard Lucas Linkedin, in addition to seeing a great speaker you will have an opportunity for you to share your start-up or service as one of 15, 1 minute pitch slots. This is all part of 2 hours of organised networking over soft drinks, wine and canapés at our wonderful building on Woodstock Road.
Please register as places will go quickly.
Do you also want to do a 1-minute pitch? Request a slot here: The number of slots is limited.

If you want to help CAMentrepreneurs thrive in Oxford, please let them know via this simple form
About CAMentrepreneurs
Since its launch in 2016 CAMentrepreneurs has held more than 72 events in Boston, Cambridge, Dubai, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Helsinki, Houston, Lisbon London, Oxford, Paris, New York, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, Vancouver and Warsaw. We partner with organisations like London Business School, LSE, Imperial and Judge Business School.
The group is officially recognised by Cambridge University Alumni Association. Their aim is to bring together positive minded alumni and others who want to work together on a voluntary basis to support enterprise, whether as entrepreneurs, investors, students or service providers.
For regular updates, please feel free to join:
Linkedin group
Mighty Networks group
www.camentrepreneurs.com
www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/group/camentrepreneurs

Knights - Professionals On Hand (Regulatory Law)
2024-10-03 09:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-01 09:00 - 17:00 | 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 September and October who specialize in:

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

Mastering Innovation for Your Business - OXLEP
2024-09-25 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
If your business is based in West Oxfordshire, then you can register for this event. If you are outside of the district, then please register for other OxLEP events.
This Masterclass is delivered online.
Overview
In this Masterclass, you will discover that innovation isn’t just reserved for the select few—it’s a structured process accessible to all. Through worked examples we will explore new methods for developing processes and products, equipping you with the tools to stay ahead in today’s rapidly evolving market.
From incremental improvements to ground-breaking advancements, you’ll learn to harness the power of innovation at every stage of your business journey. Our expert will guide you through risk management, market testing, design validation and voice of the customer feedback.
Plus, gain invaluable insights into navigating the complex landscape of innovation funding, ensuring you have the resources needed to bring your boldest ideas to life.
Learning Outcomes

Innovation is a process, that anyone can follow.
Exploring new processes or new products.
Incremental Innovation through divergent thinking.
Exploring Innovation Funding.

This Masterclass is being delivered by:
Grae Laws is an experienced practitioner of innovation, lean six sigma, new product development and project management. He is also an experienced coach, facilitator and trainer who enjoys the challenge of helping people to do more, be more and get more from their ideas. He works with businesses, in an associate model, to deliver meaningful programmes of business support that get results.
Grae provides innovative, engaging content both online and in person, covering topics related to idea generation, business planning, product and process management, and business exit strategies.
