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A ready-to-use Excel template to help you project revenues, costs, overheads, and cashflow over a three-year period. This tool is ideal for startups building business plans, preparing for investors, or tracking long-term financial performance. Pre-set categories make it easy to input your own figures and see gross margin, EBITDA, and forecasts at a glance.

A powerful framework to map out your entire business model on a single page. The Business Model Canvas helps you define key partners, activities, resources, value propositions, customer relationships, channels, customer segments, cost structure, and revenue streams. Perfect for startup planning, strategy sessions, or pitching to investors.

A visual framework to help you understand your customers more deeply. The Empathy Map Canvas guides you through what your audience thinks, feels, sees, hears, says, and does—alongside their pains and gains. Use it to build stronger customer personas, design better products, and create value propositions that truly resonate.

A structured financial planning spreadsheet designed to support entrepreneurs through the King’s Trust programme. This workbook includes tools for calculating your Personal Survival Budget, projecting costs and pricing, creating sales and cashflow forecasts, and breaking down funding requirements. Ideal for business planning, grant applications, or managing your startup finances with clarity and confidence.

A practical checklist from Strategyzer to help you design or evaluate your startup’s value proposition. It highlights the ten key traits that make a value proposition strong, differentiated, and hard to copy. Use it to refine your offering, focus on real customer jobs and pains, and stand out from the competition.

This interactive template makes it easy to shape your startup story. By filling in a few simple blanks, you’ll create a clear one-sentence pitch that explains what your company does, who it helps, and why it’s unique. A great tool for workshops, brainstorming sessions, or preparing for investors.

A simple and fun worksheet to help you quickly define your startup’s pitch. Fill in the blanks to clearly describe your company, offering, target audience, and unique advantage. Perfect for brainstorming, refining your elevator pitch, or sharing with your team.

This Business Plan Pack has been created to support entrepreneurs and founders within the Reed in Partnership network as they begin to shape, structure, and grow their ideas into sustainable businesses.
Inside you’ll find:
Step-by-step guidance on how to build a business plan from scratch.
Practical templates covering executive summaries, market research, sales forecasts, and funding requirements.
Tips and examples tailored for startups at different stages of growth.
Investor-ready structures to help you present your vision with clarity and confidence.
This pack is designed to save you time, give you structure, and ensure you have the essential foundations in place to attract support, funding, and customers.
💡 How to use it:
Download the file, work through each section at your own pace, and adapt the templates to suit your business. You can then share your draft plan in the club discussions for feedback from mentors and peers.

Event: Startup Events London – Networking, Investor Relations & Fireside Chat
Date: 15th July 2025 | Location: Somerset House, Lancaster Room, London
Relive one of the most insightful and energising startup events of the summer with this exclusive collection of high-resolution photographs, expertly captured by the incredibly talented Claire D from Corporate London Photography.
From candid networking moments and bold startup pitches to the wisdom shared during our Fireside Chats, this photo set documents the essence of Startup Networks’ Summer Special at Somerset House — an evening filled with ambition, connection, and authentic conversations.
This gallery includes:
🔥 Fireside Chat panels with top investors and ecosystem leaders
🚀 Entrepreneur pitches during our “Entrepreneur Therapy” segment
💬 Candid Q&As and live audience interaction
🎤 Behind-the-scenes shots and the electric atmosphere of the night
🤝 Open networking between 150+ founders, investors & startup operators
Whether you’re looking to reflect, reshare, or simply treasure the experience, this download is for you.
If you post photos on social media, please tag and credit:
📸 Claire D – Corporate London Photography
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About the Event:
Held at the iconic Somerset House, this Startup Networks Summer Special brought together London’s startup ecosystem for an evening of funding insights, founder storytelling, live pitching, and high-value networking.
With speakers including John Mathers (British Design Fund), Sam Simpson (FounderCatalyst), Munder Shuhumi (Pearl Capital), Jem Bahaijoub, Jurgen Vleminckx, and Varun Aggarwal, and expertly moderated by Dean Williams (Goldsmiths University) — the event gave attendees real tools, ideas, and connections to fuel their next stage.
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Click below to download the full event photo pack and relive the moments that made this night so special.
👉 If sharing online, don’t forget to tag @startupnetworksuk and give Claire the credit she deserves!