Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs are giving students the opportunity to launch a small-scale company on campus, between the 8th March and the 15th March. Students can be as adventurous as they want, from running cleaning services, to events and cake sales and more! Groups should be no larger than 4 and are provided with a £50 budget. The aim of the event is to raise funds for The Princes Trust, a charity that gives young people a chance in life. The winner of The Apprentice will be the team to have raised the most amount of money within the week.
The launch event will be taking place on the 4th March, where further details and further company ideas will be given. During The Apprentice week, teams will be assigned a mentor, to gain further help and advice. All the money needs to be submitted to Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs on the 15th March at 9am.
A Prize Giving will take place on the 18th March, with a guest speaker to be confirmed. 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes will be awarded. This event will be followed by drinks and networking opportunities.
The Princes Trust
The Princes Trust is the Uk’s leading youth charity, helping to change young lives. They help young people aged between 14 and 30 to develop their confidence and skills, and to get children into education, training and employment. We specifically want to donate the funds towards their business start-up efforts, where The Princes Trust work to raise funds to provide start up loans, grants and mentoring to the people they help.
Please fill out this form to enter the Royal Holloway Apprentice Competition:
I hope you are all enjoying your reading week, because we all know, Reading Week is just an excuse to procrastinate even more.
But don’t fear: We’ve got our Web Workshop this week, that will pull you away from the old books, and show you how to create your online identity in the 21st century!
Following on from our incredibly popular web workshop last term, Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs will be presenting an improved version of the workshop this Thursday from 6pm to 8pm in partnership with Bold Media.
This workshop will include instructions on how to set up a basic WordPress website as well as a web shop using WordPress (a basic ecommerce platform).
With this event you will receive a domain name (registered for two years) that will be fully set up and ready to run WordPress with a two year hosting package (1.5 GB disk space, 5 GB bandwidth). This comprises a saving of about 95% on market rates.
Workshop, domain and hosting for 2 years only £25.00!
In rural Africa, poor transport costs lives. Drugs cannot be delivered, patients cannot reach health centres and medics cannot send samples to labs for analysis. Riders for Health is changing all this. But can they now set up a new medical transport network in rural Zambia in just six months? Can they meet Alvin Hall’s challenge to import the motorcycles, train the riders, negotiate with the ministry and complete all the legal and business hurdles so quickly?
BBC World News is available via satellite and cable TV (it kicks off on Saturday at 0830 GMT and is repeated Sunday 14th at 1430 and 2130 GMT). The programme is also available via the BBC World News iPhone App and online.
Make Your Mark in the Markets – the competition to give two people the opportunity to turn their entrepreneurial ideas into reality and start trading on a Market of their choice for SIX months for FREE!
What you could win:
Six months free trading! That’s right, rent free! What could you do with that extra cash?
£1,000 to support your business.
Free NMTF membership, which includes public liability insurance.
Free marketing and advertising for your business, through all partners involved.
Opportunity to network with other entrepreneurs – share ideas
Opportunity to test your business, with minimal financial cost to you.
Free business starter pack, which includes top tips from Matthew Crawford, winner of the first Make Your Mark in the Markets, funding advice, business advice and much more.
Is it for you?
Ask yourself these questions:
Do you want to start or grow a business?
Do you want to turn a hobby in to a business?
Could your idea or business benefit from a free retail space?
One lucky business wins 6 months free trading in The Mall!
The Make Your Mark in Retail competition is for any small retail business looking to grow. The hardest part of growing your business is getting in front of the right customers. This competition gives the opportunity for one lucky business to do just that and for FREE.
In partnership with Natwest, Enterprise UK and The National Skills Academy, The Mall are offering one lucky business 6 months rent FREE trading in one of their centres on a Retail Merchandising Unit. As well as this they also have a whole host of additional prizes key to ensuring your long term business success.
Make Your Mark In Retail total Prize:
6 months free trading in a shopping centre on a Retail Merchandising Unit
Free business banking for two years
Access to a business relationship manager to advise you in your financial decisions
A free place on the National Skills Academy Retail Masterclass
A free place on the exclusive BSSA Oxford Summer School where you will learn about retail in more depth
NACUE’s National Varsity Pitch Competition, in partnership with the British Library, is the UK’s premier start-up competition for university students across the country. It celebrates university enterprise by showcasing the brightest young minds and the breadth of businesses coming out of UK universities.
Young entrepreneurs will compete in one of seven industry semi-finals and seven finalists will have the opportunity to move on to the national finale on May 5th at the British Library after receiving a full day of training, one-on-one mentorship and coaching. Pitching to a panel of judges made up of some of the UK’s foremost entrepreneurs, investors, innovators and media personalities, the finalists will pitch for seedfunding, startup support and the National Title.
UCL, Lancaster University, The University of York and Queen’s Belfast have teamed up with five Chinese universities to run a competition that has two tracks: one for students and one for existing businesses working with China.
This entrepreneurship competition aims to encourage new business ventures between China and the United Kingdom and is intended to simulate the real-world process of entrepreneurs soliciting start-up funds from early-stage investors and venture capital firms. We are really looking for entrepreneurs and existing small businesses that are doing something innovative in their international links, whether the relationship is customer-supplier, joint R&D, novel marketing – anything different that shows how small companies can thrive across borders and cultures!
The competition is divided into two challenge tracks:
- Innovative Business track (for existing businesses)
- Tomorrow’s Leaders track (for students)
Thirty-two teams will be selected to participate in this competition for up to £9,500 in prizes in the national rounds, together with an investment opportunity of £250,000 for the grand international final!
The University of Texas and Dell are looking for college students from around the world who want to improve areas of critical human need through innovation.
Providing a vehicle for taking student innovations from idea to reality, Dell’s Social Innovation Competition is a real-world exercise for perfecting your skills in:
- Project/business plan development
- Pitching ideas to investors
- Building resource networks
Do you have groundbreaking idea in mind? With your fortitude and personality, can you mobilize people and resources to affect wide-ranging, scalable social change? If so, register now. Deadline 1st March.
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Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs are giving students the opportunity to launch a small-scale company on campus, between the 8th March and the 15th March. Students can be as adventurous as they want, from running cleaning services, to events and cake sales and more! Groups should be no larger than 4 and are provided with a £50 budget. The aim of the event is to raise funds for The Princes Trust, a charity that gives young people a chance in life. The winner of The Apprentice will be the team to have raised the most amount of money within the week.
Make Your Mark in the Markets – the competition to give two people the opportunity to turn their entrepreneurial ideas into reality and start trading on a Market of their choice for SIX months for FREE!
UCL, Lancaster University, The University of York and Queen’s Belfast have teamed up with five Chinese universities to run a competition that has two tracks: one for students and one for existing businesses working with China.
