£10,000 Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2010
If you’re aged 16-30 and have been running your own business for more than 3 months but less than 18 months, this annual competition could see you walk away with a £10,000 cash injection plus support from top PR agency Blue Rubicon at our Shell LiveWIRE LIVE! award final taking place in London on 13th October 2010.
So, if you think you’ve got what it takes to be our Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2010, simply login at the bottom of this page to apply.
Deadline for entries is 5pm on 6th September 2010.
£1,000 Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards
If you’re aged 16-30 and need funding to get your new business idea or project off the ground, the Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards offers up to to 5 x £1,000 prizes each month to the most innovative or unusual ideas submitted by new businesses in their first 12 months of trading. (See our section about previous Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Award winners).
You’ve got until the last day of each month to apply for the £1,000 Awards – simply login below to access the application form.
Jack Lenox, our founding President, has done a fantastic job of creating Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs. But it is soon approaching the time for him to hand over the reins to the next President, to take the organization to the next level.
Could you be our next President?
It is a fantastic opportunity to lead the NACUE New Society of the Year 2010. The job involves everything from running events, hobnobbing with famous entrepreneurs, managing a budget to buying late night pizza and inspiring a team of amazing students. Can you do all of this?
Read the job description and take a look at the advert which includes details of how to apply. You must be a Royal Holloway student or recent graduate.
If you were at our Start It! University Entrepreneurs talk with Hermione Way, you probably remember the video she showed titled: Social Media Revolution.
Now, the original one dates back to 2008, however, these numbers have obviously changed.
We’ve been working really hard this year to put together some innovative entrepreneurial activities – from running Dragons’ Den and The Apprentice inspired competitions to one to one business guidance and talks from fantastic entrepreneurs.
Now we’d like you to give something back – and you could win a £20 Amazon voucher too!
Simply complete this 5 minute survey and tell us about your experience of our activities. The information you give will be used to improve our programme, and will help us to secure funding for the future.
PlinkArt, a company run by two Oxford PhD students and incubated by Oxford Entrepreneurs, have become the first UK company to be purchased by US tech giants Google. Their technology, a mobile visual search system, will be integrated into Google Goggles.
Here at Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs, we are hard at work building our very own incubation centre, so that Royal Holloway students can be the next Google purchase! Check out this video to see Florian & Anil helping to paint the new centre…
We are pleased to announce that the Royal Holloway Apprentice teams raised a grand total of £1276 in aid of The Prince’s Trust last week. Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs ran an Apprentice style competition on campus for one week, giving six teams a £50 budget and the opportunity to run small-scale companies. The winning team Dynasti Entertainment successfully raised a total of £447.45 making more than third of the total profits. They engaged in different fund raising activities from kick up competitions to wet sponge throwing!
When asked about their biggest challenge, Dynasti said that they would’ve wished a better co-operation of the SU. However, they were surprised to find a student body that was willing to help Charity. “… when they heard this was for charity, their pockets opened up, greatly.”
When we asked the team leader about his main motivation for raising money, he said that he hopes that the money raised “would help someone to achieve something, a better lifestyle.”
“We learned that there are a lot of challenges, and a lot of setbacks, which can hinder you from achieving your goal, but if you’re persistent enough, you can achieve what you set out to do.”
Dynasti also would like to thank all of the students for their support and all the other teams for their help in raising money for the Princes Trust.
Team Veritas proposed an unusual business concept based on a model featured in the best-selling Freakonomics, enabling consumers to pay the price they wish to pay. Veritas set up a stall selling bags of sweets and left a voluntary moneybox requesting for £1 per bag.
After encountering difficulties team Enigma successfully ran an event on Saturday evening taking on the challenge to mimic Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. The Chocolate Makers looked to provide campus with an endless supply of chocolate fountain and an assortment of marshmallows and strawberries. Team MATT-MC-ABE took it on them-selves to establish a company that had an ethical stances selling RHUL student’s unwanted clothing. There was such a great response to this company that students are requesting Team MATT-MC-ABE to continue selling second hand clothing on campus. We will have to watch this space! Last but by no means least, team Universal came second closely following Dynasti making £350 selling Krispy Kremes around campus.
The “Margaret and Nick” mentors from Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs, Francesca Chant and Jess Ratcliffe want to thank all the teams for working so hard for the society and the Prince’s Trust.
Although the week is over The Apprentice prize giving event will be held during Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs’ closing event in Founders’ Main Lecture Theatre (MLT) on the 25th of March. The guest speaker is the society’s Founding Patron Sir Alec Reed CBE. Also attending will be Enterprise Rent-a-Car, the event sponsor, and a representative from The Prince’s Trust. Along with awarding our winners with their prizes, a further team will be awarded for the most original and creative idea, which will be announced on the night. This event should be a really great evening also offering networking opportunities with everyone involved.
The Apprentice launched by the Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs has been a great success raising a grand total of £1276 for the Princes Trust Charity.
I would like to congratulate all the teams for their hard work and commitment to the competition.
So, now the thing you all have been waiting for…. the results!
Dynasti with a total of £447.45
Dynasti decided to create different fun daily projects from wet sponge throwing to football and fashions quiz’s.
Universal
Universal sold a variety of products on campus catering to all students needs.
Matt-MC-ABE
This team sold second hand clothes on campus.
ENIGMA
Ran an entertainment event on campus.
VERITAS
Veritas sold small bags of sweets around campus and provided honesty boxes inviting students to pay what they wanted for the sweet packets. This team wanted to test the honesty of Royal Holloway Students.
The Chocolate Makers
The Chocolate Makers ran a chocolate fountain in the Bedford Library.
Congratulations again to Dynasti, and to all the other teams too, you all at least DOUBLED! your investment in just a week! That’s some real entrepreneurial spirit!
I would also like to thank Francesca and Jess for mentoring and organizing most of the event.
We hope to see all of the teams, and everyone else who has been following our events, for our big end of the year event / ceremony next Thursday (25th of March) with Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs’ Founding Patron Professor Alec Reed CBE.
Nepal is one of the 5 poorest countries in the world. The average annual income per family is about £116 but falls to just £22 for an “untouchable” family. Out of 100 untouchable women 97 are illiterate. Of its approximately 5.5 million “untouchable” population, 90% live below poverty line.
To support Comolongmo, you can buy their great products via their website or by visiting their stall at Spitalfields market.
Monday was the big day. We kicked off the Royal Holloway Apprentice challenge, and the 6 participating teams have been active on campus every day so far.
Getting British Business Online is a joint initiative between Enterprise UK, Google, BT and E Skills to help small businesses create their first websites and help them understand the opportunities offered by the Internet. The campaign has set a target of helping 100,000 UK small businesses get their first websites easily and for free by the end of 2010.
If you want your own website, for free, visit gbbo.co.uk to register your domain and to get a basic Google website.
You can then transform your basic website into an advanced, all singing, all dancing Wordpress site by coming to one of our workshops! Email web@royalhollowayentrepreneurs.com to book a date.
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PlinkArt, a company run by two Oxford PhD students and incubated by Oxford Entrepreneurs, have become the first UK company to be purchased by US tech giants Google. Their technology, a mobile visual search system, will be integrated into Google Goggles.
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Getting British Business Online is a joint initiative between Enterprise UK, Google, BT and E Skills to help small businesses create their first websites and help them understand the opportunities offered by the Internet. The campaign has set a target of helping 100,000 UK small businesses get their first websites easily and for free by the end of 2010.