NBBF Youth Business Club
Destination 2037
A twenty-year road map for building a generation of Nigerian-British entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs — from a Youth Club launch in 2017 to a defined destination in 2037.
"African entrepreneurship is central to Africa's future prosperity. The biggest business opportunities in the coming decade will be created by Africans who start businesses, generate jobs and wealth, and capture growth opportunities. African entrepreneurs can change the world; it is time that we give them the platform to do so." — Wiebe Boer, CEO of the Tony Elumelu Foundation
An untapped gold mine
As a young Nigerian entrepreneur, you have unrivalled access to one of the most fertile, untapped and profitable business grounds in the world — and you're a key stakeholder in what's rightly described as a mixed, emerging economy.
Any entrepreneur knows beyond doubt that opportunity abounds in a country that is not yet fully developed. Entrepreneurship is a focus for your passion and a springboard to your wealth — but most of all, it's the primary catalyst for the economic renaissance of Nigeria and her ailing economy.
Research consistently shows that younger adults are more likely to start a business, especially college and university graduates or those in higher education. Because we believe in the concept of the Nigerian entrepreneur, NBBF has taken the bold step of creating a forum tasked with developing and nurturing UK-based young adults of Nigerian origin, aged between 18 and 35: the Nigerian-British Business Forum Youth Business Club (NBBF+Y).
What is Destination 2037?
The implementation of a 20-year road map aimed at creating a significant number of hugely successful entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs of Nigerian origin within our membership. By 17 March 2037, we want the NBBF Youth Club membership to include:
Nigerians as CEOs of 20 Fortune 500 companies
Nigerians as major global infrastructural investors
Nigerian-owned, Nigerian-led quoted companies
Nigerian UK millionaires
The strategy: how?
Nine commitments that make up the Youth Club's programme of work between now and 2037.
Create an enabling platform for the incubation, birth and growth of entrepreneurship.
Provide guidance on how to start, sustain and grow a business.
Share experience from successful business owners.
Share business ideas and advice across the membership.
Identify key UK sectors into which to launch our young entrepreneurs.
Research funding groups and investors, in the UK and abroad, for members' businesses.
Run seminars, workshops, courses and mentorship — in the UK and Nigeria — with a two-pronged focus: business entrepreneurship, and Nigeria's history, people, potential and opportunities.
Equip members to evaluate opportunities, pitch to investors, manage cash flow, win their first 10, 100 and 1,000 customers, test ideas with real customers, market for growth, and build a sustainable, profitable model.
Host the annual NBBF+Y National Conference — the highlight of the Youth Club's year.
What we want to do
Ring-fence and connect young British-Nigerian entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs — mentoring and supporting them to take advantage of the current global economy and their exposure to it.
Gather young British-Nigerian entrepreneurs into a formidable voice, representing Nigerian youth at international platforms, projects and fora.
Ignite and champion passion for innovation, business, education, progressive thinking, responsibility and entrepreneurship within our membership.
Encourage entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial activity within the group, for maximum impact and clout in society.
Who should join?
Entrepreneurs
Do you currently own your own business?
Growing entrepreneurs
Do you wish to take your business to a new level of growth?
Intrapreneurs
Do you wish to learn critical entrepreneurial skills to support innovation within your organisation?
Would-be entrepreneurs
Do you want to own your own business?
What's in it for you as a young adult?
Twenty years starts with one step
Join the NBBF Youth Business Club and become part of the membership working toward Destination 2037.
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