The History - The Enterprise Story So Far...

Across the UK, homeworkers are gathering in hotel lobbies, airline lounges and coffee shops, this trend of entrepreneurs meeting in discreet locations is nothing very new.

This 21st century "business coffee culture" is just a hark back to the so-called Penny Universities of 17th century England, where for one penny customers could sit and join in the stimulating conversation with the great thinkers of the day and it was this interaction that produced an Industrial Revolution that shook the world.

STAND BY FOR THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION...
...as it comes to life again in Shropshire AND SHAKES THE WORLD FROM the Birthplace of Industry - for the SECOND time!

The UK's new economic pioneers are now to be found in both Shropshire ENTERPRISE HQ's, the first centres custom-designed for home based entrepreneurs and commercial nomads to gather since 1688!  Here the focus is on MASS INNOVATION and not MASS INDUSTRIALISATION.  A message of HOPE in the economic gloom descending upon the world.

1688
In 1688 Edward Lloyd opened a coffee house encouraging a clientele of sea captains, merchants and ship owners, this enterprise gave birth to Lloyds of London. At the same time, entrepreneurs and merchants also frequented Jonathon's Coffee House in nearby "Change Alley" and this was the beginning of the London Stock Exchange.

2007
The first ENTERPRISE HQ is launched in Shrewsbury and is the first venue of its kind in Europe, designed exclusively for homeworkers. This flagship business destination has attracted national interest and the LANDMARK ENTERPRISE HQ to be opened on 30th March 2009 IN Ironbridge - a World Heritage Site and the Birthplace of Industry - there could not be a more appropriate location in the whole of Europe!

More ENTERPRISE HQ's are planned for entrepreneurial areas across the West Midlands.