Surinder Arora, Founder of the Arora Group of Hotels and one of the UK’s most successful businessmen, has become a Patron of Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs.
Surinder founded Arora Hotels in 1999 which has since become one of the fastest growing independent hotel companies in the UK and the largest hotel company at Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The primary focus of Arora Hotels is the design, construction and operation of luxury hotels.
At The Kia Oval, Arora is currently working in partnership with Surrey County Cricket Club on the development of a 168-bedroom luxury hotel and is also preferred partner for the new 212-bedroom Royal Ascot Hotel opposite the world famous racecourse.
Surinder has supported Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs since its inception in 2009 and has featured in our events several times. He will join Sir Alec Reed CBE as a Patron of our organisation and we gladly welcome him on board.
Jess Ratcliffe, Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs Events Coordinator 2009-10, features alongside Prime Minister David Cameron and top global entrepreneur Richard Branson in a new campaign, announced during the 2011 Budget speech.
Startup Britain (click the middle dot on the right hand side to see Jess) is a high profile scheme aimed at aimed at boosting entrepreneurship which is backed by the Government, successful businesses and more than 50 large businesses. It will be publicly launched by David Cameron at 10.30am on Monday 28th April 2011.
Jess first came to the public’s attention via BBC TV’s Dragons’ Den, where she presented GaBoom, her game exchange website. GaBoom is now successfully helping thousands of users to swap their used computer games.
Jess developed GaBoom during her time at Royal Holloway, where she acted as Events Co-ordinator for Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs, helping to inspire other students to launch their own businesses.
Environment YES (Young Entrepreneurs Scheme) is an innovative scheme for researchers working in natural environmental sciences. Its aim is to increase the level of entrepreneurial awareness in the environmental science community.
Closing date for applications: 27 May 2011
Eligibility
Environment YES is aimed at individuals who are in the early stages of their research career, for example PhD students or those working on their first or second post-doctoral research appointment. They should be working in the environmental sciences.
This presentation by Ogilvy PR explains that marketing has changed from the four P’s (Product, Place, Price and Promotion) to the four E’s (Experience, Everyplace, Exchange, Evangelism).
The New Entrepreneurs Foundation has been established to give 25 of the UK’s brightest entrepreneurially minded young people the opportunity to work for a year with some of the country’s leading entrepreneurs.For more information please click here to download the ebrochure. To apply, visit the New Entrepreneurs Foundation website.
Spend a year working with a successful entrepreneur and their senior management team, supporting them on many different initiatives and gaining valuable insight into how business works.
The programme will enable you to learn about the challenges of business from some of the most outstanding entrepreneurs in this country, such as Sir Nigel Rudd, Luke Johnson, Brent Hoberman and Charles Dunstone. Receive training in business, strategy and finance from the senior executives of McKinsey, Diageo, Deloitte and a number of leading business schools.
Everyone on the programme will be entitled to receive support depending on their specific needs. The standard scholarship will amount to £20,000 for those in London and £14,000 a year if placed outside London. Additional scholarship funding to assist with living costs may be available on a case-by-case basis.
Sir Alec Reed CBE, founder of Reed Recruitment and The Big Give and founding patron of Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs, awarded this year’s Enterprise Minigrants at a truly special ceremony at Royal Holloway’s Founder’s Building.
Giving a hilarious and insightful speech, Sir Alec told an avid audience about his early days as an 8 year old ‘slave’ to his elder brother’s business ideas, his strong and supportive mother, his early passion for business and the confidence that was the key to his success.
He awarded the 2011 Enterprise Minigrants to:
Overall Winners – £2,000 Opera Holloway
Student Shops (Anna Bruce)
Winners – £1,000 Terrho (Nathan Nasrallah & Crystal Ho)
Paulius Satkauskas
Passengerfilms
Patricia Perez
Potters Lane (Anna Bruce)
Runners-up – £500 Neda Milanova & Elizabeth Nalumansi
Lauren McIlroy
Sir Alec was thanked by the Principal of Royal Holloway, Professor Paul Layzell, for the support he has given to the College over the years, and was presented with ‘Paintings from the Reign of Victoria’, the book which accompanied the Royal Holloway Collection tour.
Crowdcube aims to boost University Entrepreneursby connecting them with a ‘crowd’ of potential investors
Crowdcube is the first crowdfunding website in the world to offer ordinary people equity in exchange for investment in start-up and growing businesses. It aims to make access to finance easier for entrepreneurs of newly formed and growing small businesses. Instead of competing for limited business angel, government grants or venture capital funding, start-ups can use Crowdcube as a platform to connect with a nation of ‘armchair dragons’ to find investment.
Entrepreneurs can showcase their business and investment potential to thousands of micro-investors by uploading a ‘dragons’ den’ style video pitch, images and supporting documents. Spreading the word about a pitch is made easy via Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter sharing links on their dedicated Crowdcube webpage. People can support an idea, person or business by investing small amounts of money – from as little as £10 – in exchange for shares in the business.
Crowdcube is searching for grassroots entrepreneurs from student campuses to drive the growth of entrepreneurship and enterprise across the UK. There is no cost for entrepreneurs to sign up to Crowdcube. Entrepreneurs can register their business idea or company at www.crowdcube.com.
Could You Be the National Champion? £10k up for Grabs + incubation space, mentorship, market research package & Golden ticket to Global Awards in USA
The 2011 National Varsity Pitch Competition showcases the brightest young talent via Britain’s very own student business plan competition!
Contestants will first compete for an Industry Award at the Semi-Finals in April, 7 winners will then receive pitching training at boot camp and then go on to pitch at the Grand Final in May, in front of esteemed judges and VIP audience of over 150 entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, public figures and members of the national media.
The National Champion will get £10k, national exposure, in-kind support from sponsors and more!
Deadline: March 20, 2011. But places maybe be given away sooner, so apply now!
Are you the National Champion? Apply at: http://nacue.com/nvpc
Good luck!
The NACUE Team
Kick Start - the largest ever seed investment programme supported by university entrepreneurial societies – is back for 2011. Kick Start is a seed investment programme for entrepreneurs, run by entrepreneurs.
Entrants can earn an investment of up to £30,000 in their business as well as gaining invaluable advice, support and mentoring.
The Kick Start programme is looking for the very best and brightest entrepreneurs.
- Do you have a well thought through idea that you feel passionately about and are ready to throw yourself into?
- Have you developed a product or service that you are ready to launch?
- Are you already running a business and need help to really take it to next level?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes – Kick Start is for you.
Elance is a website which helps companies hire and manage staff online.
For businesses that hire people with specific skills on an hourly or project basis, Elance offers access to online workers and provides the tools to hire, view work in progress, and pay for results.
For skilled professionals who want to work online, Elance offers access to qualified clients and a virtual workplace.
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