The Bright Futures is back and will be holding another fantastic enterprise skills programme.
Bright Futures is an intensive, challenging and fun 2- 3 day programme to help you develop your entrepreneurial skills. It features entrepreneurs, inspiring speakers, games and simulations.
You will meet new people from all courses and backgrounds with a passion for enterprise, and develop your personal network and skills.
Where and When is it?
The two day programme will be held on the 14th – 15th September at the Brunel University.
Why should I Apply
• If you applied for Bright Ideas then you will most certainly gain from the Bright Futures experience – build your idea, get feedback, find support.
• start communicating more effectively
• build your networking skills to help you find jobs and support for your ideas
• meet like-minded students and entrepreneurs to inspire you
• add more to your CV and build your career
• Have fun while developing your employability, skills and developing your enterprising spirit.
This highly successful programme for students has been running for five years. It provides a high quality and high value experience for all students from any course, background and level.
Louis Mech, a social entrepreneur and member of Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs, had the opportunity of meeting Richard Branson at the Virgin entrepreneur’s expansive estate, as part of the Fast Track 100 conference.
The event began with an afternoon conference where guests heard from a range of speakers including Mike Clare, founder and president of Dreams, Keith Abel, co-founder and chief executive of organic vegetable delivery company Abel & Cole, Nick Jenkins, founder and chairman of personalised greeting card company Moonpig.com, as well as meeting Richard Branson himself.
Louis said, “Getting to meet Richard Branson was a major high point. He was an incredibly down to earth guy that just loves any new fun business idea, he is very inspirational. The reason that I joined Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs was because I had a passion for a business – however I was not sure how to take the next step. RHE have provided me with a safe environment to talk about my business ideas and, after winning the RHE Dragons Den, provided me with enough start-up capital to transform my idea into reality. My company, VEO Eyewear is a social enterprise glasses company. Every time someone purchases a pair of VEO glasses, VEO donates a pair of prescription glasses to a person in need.”
Big Venture Challenge is a national competition to find the 25 most ambitious social entrepreneurs in England.
Winners of Big Venture Challenge will get an initial £25K grant and the chance to access up to £150K of seed funding if matched by loans or equity from co-investors, plus first class business support and mentoring designed to keep pace with high growth social entrepreneurs.
They are looking for social entrepreneurs with vision, talent and determination. In other words:
people with big ideas to transform disadvantaged communities across England
people who have got what it takes to build credible ventures
people who have the ambition to scale up impact fast
It is with great pleasure that we can announce our first official sponsor of Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs, Surinder Arora. Here’s a quick bio so you can get to know him a little better…
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. The company has a consistent track record of delivering superlative quality, service and hospitality combined with quantum revenue and profit growth.
The portfolio currently comprises of 6 directly managed hotels with over 2,200 bedrooms and 1,500 employees. Prime locations include the award-winning Sofitel London Heathrow, Terminal 5.
At The Kia Oval, Arora is currently working in partnership with Surrey County Cricket Club on the development of a 190-bedroom luxury hotel and is also preferred partner for the new 212-bedroom Royal Ascot Hotel opposite the world famous racecourse.
The property arm of the Arora Group – Arora Management Services – is involved in property asset management of a portfolio of landmark office buildings. The company recently announced that it had secured an agreement to design and construct four new budget hotels at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports.
Surinder is a keen golfer – so much so that he holds a minority interest in Wentworth Golf Club.
Seedups is a crowdfunding platform formed to help innovative companies get that all important early stage funding. The wisdom of crowd methodology behind Seedups means that investors have to make blind bids for equity stakes of companies, so investors asking for too much equity are cut out of deals, and the best possible deal is presented to the entrepreneur. The all-or-nothing funding model is one of the cheapest funding models available to entrepreneurs, with a charge of only 2% for successfully funded businesses, and legal fees being handled by Seedups.
The company launched its UK and Ireland service in February before launching the US service at the prestigious SxSW festival in March. To date over 500 entrepreneurs have signed up, and there are currently over 100 projects seeking funding.
For more information and start seeking investment visit www.seedups.com.
If you have a sound business idea and are looking for help and guidance, LSE are offering a 2 day programme to help you.
Get mentored and trained in 2 days on LSE campus with the help of experienced entrepreneurs like Jon Bradford and hans Eriksson. LSE Student Business Incubator will be organizing an intense speed mentoring and pitch training workshoop to foster your business idea. If your start up in already running, this is your opportunity to raise seed funding and find business partners by connecting with their speakers.
Thursday 16th June from 4pm to Friday 17th June
To apply email LSE.incubator@gmail.com asap with a twitter style description of your business. Places are limited so apply now!
Download a presentation given by John Spindler of Capital Enterprise, the membership body for deliverers of enterprise support services in London, detailing sources of help including government grants that are presently on offer from over 50 enterprise support organisations operating in the London.
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Download a presentation given by John Spindler of Capital Enterprise, the membership body for deliverers of enterprise support services in London, detailing sources of help including government grants that are presently on offer from over 50 enterprise support organisations operating in the London.
