Carbon Voyage meets Peter Jones

On the 22nd of July, Carbon Voyage was one of six finalists out of around 3,000 entrants in the Enterprise Business Challenge, a competition to pitch to Peter Jones of Dragons’ Den fame.

James Swanston with Peter Jones at the Enterprise Business Challenge

In the week preceding, I went from someone who had never really watched Dragons’ Den to someone who has now pretty much watched every episode in existence. Unfortunately we didn’t win, but it was still a great day (the winner was Funky Lunch which is a great idea to get kids to eat more healthy food)

It was a good day, not just in terms of getting some more pitching experience, but also to meet some of the other finalists and hear about what they are up to.

In other news, we’re working on a really exciting project at the moment which I am hoping will launch later this year up north. There is a very cool article in the National Geographic that is sort of an aspiration what we would like to achieve called ‘A Day with Less Driving’ – check it out!