YARPN - Looking for new team members!

~ October 2016 ~

Young Anglo-Russian Professionals Network

Started in February 2016, the Young Anglo-Russian Professionals Network (YARPN) has rapidly grown online and in real life. Currently, YARPN’s LinkedIn group has over 1,500 members and Facebook page has over 300 likes. To date, we have hosted 8 Networking Socials with our 9th being on Friday, 14th October 2016. YARPN’s success has clearly demonstrated a need for an independent organisation in London that would bring together ambitious young professionals with links to Russia. Unfortunately, the experience has also shown that such organisation is unlikely to be commercially profitable in the near future and would require a lot of human time and effort to operate successfully. As a result, YARPN is at a very pivotal point in its life, as it aims to move to a new organisational structure and strategy. To ensure a stricter focus on bringing real value to YARPN’s community, instead of generating revenue, we are planning to turn YARPN into a non-profit organisation. Therefore, YARPN now requires an additional group of new volunteers ready to work as one team to make it more valuable, structured and respected to ensure its success long term. The road ahead will be long, difficult and bumpy. However, by helping out, volunteers will rapidly grow their professional and personal network and gain a broad set of skills. This experience would look amazing on CV, as it demonstrates willingness to take additional responsibility and courage to accept failure. Additionally, this is a great opportunity to leave a direct lasting impact on YARPN and members of its community. If you are willing to give around 4-8 hours a week of your time to YARPN and contribute your talents, we would love to hear from you! For further information, please email info [ at ] yarpn.co.uk Current plan for key milestones is as follows: October  Finalise new team members and new strategy for the future  Initiate the process of changing YARPN into a non-profit organisation November  Transformation online and execution of other strategies  Begin planning of 2017 events December  Continue transformations January  Kick off 2017 with a bang!