Got a great idea for a Students’ Union business? Get £60,000 funding to make it happen!
Posted by John King on November 22, 2010 under Competitions | 
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Want to start a new commercial or social enterprise venture but don’t know how? Want to enhance your ‘employability’? Then read on to find out about £60k of funding…
The ‘Innovation & Social Enterprise Academy’ is a new national initiative of the commercial division of National Union of Students (NUSSL). It encourages and supports individual students and students’ unions and their staff members in their efforts to build new commercial and social enterprises for the Students’ Union through the availability of seed funding to the Students’ Union. In addition, it offers additional excellent development opportunity for all participants through attendance at free skills workshops and personal tutoring in business proposals.
You are invited to apply for funding for ‘ideas that are ethical, legal and that demonstrate a clear long term commercial benefit to students’ unions’. The ideas could be completely new to our union or ideas that build on or enhance our existing services and activities. Funding of up to 60k is available for the successful proposals and will be distributed to the selected Students’ Unions (N.B. not to individuals) to help launch their ideas. Successful applicants will also be invited to attend a 2 day development course on 8 & 9 February in Cheltenham and will be supported throughout the process by the Students’ Union.
For more information and to apply visit the Royal Holloway Students’ Union website.
Entries are now closed for Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs’ Dragons’ Den competition, but you still have a chance to win. On Wednesday we are running an innovation workshop called Dragon Teams. Teams will compete to generate solutions to problems and the best teams could win £250 in the Den. Register in Careers to enter, and good luck!