Why not take advantage of the quietest month of the year and enter the Shell Springboard Awards?
The deadline for Shell Springboard is 5pm on the 5th November, but as we all know things tend to get busy again when the world returns from its holiday so now is a good time to get your application sorted.
Submit your entry online at www.shellspringboard.org for one of eight awards of £40,000 on offer this year. (more…)
When are the best things in business free?
When it’s a free website that reaches new customers
While you’re working hard to build your business, wouldn’t it be great if you could be in lots of different places at once? Well, with a website you can. While you’re occupied with stocks and suppliers, new customers can still find your company, view your products, email you, and place orders through your site. (more…)
Great new business support scheme for recent graduates from Make It Happen (MIH). This is a new national programme to support graduates setting up in business. It’s free to all those accepted onto the programme and is funded by the UK Government and delivered by National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship, HSBC and Business Link.
12 month programmes for graduates to go into self employment or start a business (more…)
HE Social Entrepreneurship Development Awards competition dates have been announced. Development Awards of up to £15000 are available, and open to staff and students at Univeristies.
Speaker: Jai Cozzi, Graduate Recruitment Manager, dunnhumby
Date: 25 March 2010 13:00 – 14:00
Canterbury Campus – Lecture Theatre 2, Grimond Building
“Understanding data is one thing; knowing what to do with it is another.”
Dunnhumby is a world leading market research organisation famous for its groundbreaking work with the Tesco Clubcard. www.dunnhumby.com
If you are interested in a career in marketing or data analysis after you graduate, this session is not to be missed.
Allow us to introduce ourselves, our blog, and what we’ll be talking about in it. First and foremost, we are Polina and Alexandra. We are the new Marketing Assistants/Ambassadors for Kent Round One – the UoK student enterprise centre that provides you with all the great opportunities to help you get the most from your time at Kent.
We are both second year students at the University of Kent, working towards a BBA in Business Administration. After being involved in a variety of events, competitions, challenges, summer placements, business enterprises, charities and societies we have decided that it is a great time to start sharing all our knowledge and experience gained so far with YOU.
Our initial plans are to keep a schedule that keeps you informed about all the enterprise events happening at Kent and beyond and raise awareness about the new, emerging student businesses:
So, we hope that you will read. We hope that you will comment. We hope that you will send us some of your ideas about your business hopes and dreams, likes and dislikes and things that you think should be featured in this blog. And also, while you’re at it, please take the time to read our fellow blogger: Andrew Davison.
We’ll be talking to you soon,
Alexandra and Polina
The UK’s premier student enterprise conference.
From March 27-28, 2010, UCL Entrepreneurs Society, UCL Enterprise Society and UCL Advances partner with the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE) to host the UK’s premier conference for student entrepreneurs and enterprising student. This conference brings together 200 of the most promising student entrepreneurs and enterprising students in the UK.
