Welcome

The London Youth Support Trust (LYST) is dedicated to supporting young disadvantaged entrepreneurs who aspire to set up a business. We provide our clients with subsidised business space for a three year period, together with intensive business advice and personal support. Our business incubation centres are London based in Haringey, Deptford, Lambeth, Southwark and Hackney.

Our clients are previously unemployed or under-employed when they approach us. Our support helps them take responsibility for their own future: we help them explore the possibility of self employment as an option, especially for those that feel they face particular barriers to conventional employment. They test their business idea, write their business plan and we help them ensure they have funding in place. For those that successfully complete this phase we offer them their own workshop space. We then provide timely, relevant and on-site advice provided by our Centre Managers and volunteers.