Posted by John King on September 26, 2010 under Competitions | 
What is Dragons’ Den?
Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs’ Dragons’ Den is an idea pitching competition based on the hit BBC TV series of the same name. Students will pitch their ideas – for businesses, social enterprises, charities or individual projects – to a panel of ‘Dragons’ which includes:
- Jess Ratcliffe, a RHUL student who featured on the real Dragons’ Den
- Robin Bennett, author of Start-up Smart, who will be offering attendees the opportunity of up to an additional £5,000 business funding
- Rhiannon Horsley from UnLtd, the top UK social enterprise organisation.
The ‘Dragons’ play the role of potential investors in you and your idea. The competition takes place on Thursday 7th October 2010 at 7pm in the Students’ Union.
How do I enter?
The competition is now closed, but you can still attend the event for fun!
What happens next?
All entrants will be given the opportunity to attend a pitching workshop on Wednesday 6th October at 1pm in MX34. At this workshop you will learn how to pitch professionally and be given the opportunity to practise and hone your pitch. The final selection of students who will be put through to face the Dragons will be announced at the end of this workshop and emailed to any students who were unable to attend.
How do I win?
Winning ideas are likely to be those which are innovative, solve a genuine problem or meet a real need, and are likely to be achievable. Although you will not be marked on the quality of your pitch, a good pitch will help you put your idea across.
What is the format of the pitching competition?
You will pitch for just 2 minutes and will have 3 minutes to answer questions.
Who can enter?
Current students at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Posted by Alan Lee on July 26, 2010 under News |
£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.
Website: http://www.shell-livewire.org/awards
Posted by Alan Lee on July 19, 2010 under Competitions |
Do you want to travel the world for a year, all expenses paid? Well, this is their chance to win an incredible competition and the most amazing once in a lifetime experience.
‘Your Big Year’ is an official ‘Global Entrepreneurship Week’ event. It provides an opportunity for two competition winners to travel the world for one-year meeting inspirational people, entrepreneurs and leaders whilst on an incredible journey. The competition brings together the three themes of enterprise, social responsibility and creating a global perspective, and intends to fundraise for key chosen charities including Rights and Humanity.
Submit your entry at:
http://www.yourbigyear.com/
Posted by Alan Lee on July 12, 2010 under Competitions, Social Enterprise |
vcashpoint is giving away £2,500 to 16-25 year olds in England with ideas for London 2012 inspired projects in their communities. If you’ve got an idea for a London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games inspired volunteering project to improve your community, you could apply for up to £2,500 to make it happen.
To get your brains-whirring Olympic and Paralympic Games themes include: Sport, Health Culture, Education and Environment To apply for a vcashpoint grant, you must be aged 16-25, live in England, and be up for running the project yourself.
You’ll need to show how your project will help other people (not relatives), the environment or your community and how it has been inspired by London 2012.
Closing date: 6th September 2010
http://vinspired.com/vcashpoint
Posted by Florian Jensen on March 17, 2010 under Events, News |
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.
Posted by Florian Jensen on March 11, 2010 under Competitions, News |
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.
One group was even featured on the Royal Holloway Website.
How well? Well, judge for yourself:
So, bring your wallet when walking to Campus tomorrow, and keep a look out for the different teams selling goods.
Posted by Florian Jensen on February 17, 2010 under News |
Hey guys,
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!
Make It! Website Workshop
Thursday, 6pm at HITT Lab (Horton Building)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=304749083993
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!
Buy tickets: http://groupspaces.com/royalhollowayentrepreneurs/item/53375/register/
Please note: Registration is REQUIRED!
Videos
If you haven’t checked our Website recently, I strongly recommend you do.
We’ve got quite a few new videos on our website, including a short promo video from the Hotel Entrepreneurs event. You can find this here.
You can see all the other videos we’ve made available here.
Competitions
Since the last newsletter, there have been quite a few new competitions that have emerged.
Ranging from getting a spot in a mall, to 250.000£ and even a possibility to pitch to Doug Richard.
All the competitions can be found here.
So get your idea pad out, and jot down your ideas, and be one of the winners of these great competitions!
That’s it for reading week!
I hope to see you tomorrow at our Web Workshop at 6pm!
