Enterprise Awards
The awards
The Santander University of Brighton Enterprise Awards aim to discover the best new business ideas with potential.
Entry to the competition is open between February until mid-April and the top ten ideas will win £250 and the chance to develop their skills and ideas through a specialist training course that takes place during April.
These finalists will then have the chance to win a further £2500 and expert business advice and support to help their business grow.
Competition Categories
The most innovative product award is for the most innovative idea for a product with commercial potential.
The most entrepreneurial service award is for the most entrepreneurial idea for a service with commercial potential.
The most enterprising community project award is for the best idea with social and/or environmental benefit.
Initial prizes
Three £250 awards will be made for the best applications in each of the three categories, with an additional prize of £250 also awarded to the best overall runner-up from all categories. All cash prizes are sponsored by Santander Universities.
The ten winners as identified above will then be invited to undertake a day’s worth of enterprise training featuring a communication masterclass courtesy of Vada Media and past Enterprise Award entrant Ben Wilding from Cameron & Wilding talk about his journey since winning and help candidates prepare for the final stage of the competition.
Secondary prizes
From here, there will be one overall winner in each category, each of whom will win a further £2500 cash prize, a business planning guide provided by My StartUp Plan, a one to one Social Media masterclass with Julian Hall, bespoke PR advice from Vada Media, a two consultation on intellectual property and legal issues with the team at Mayo Wynne Baxter and a roller banner stand and £50.00 of poster printing from Exhibit Printing Ltd, a company founded by a Brighton graduate and past recipient of an Enterprise Award in 2009!
Winners from each specific category will also receive:
Most innovative product – Marketest will provide a market research consultation worth £500.
Most entrepreneurial service – MDHUB will reward the winner of this category with a year’s membership to MDHUB – the premier business club for leading managing directors in the South East. In addition, Create will supply a years subscription to their Pro Seller website package, to get the winners selling their wares online.
Most enterprising community project – PricePie will provide a mentoring session to help move the winning project forward.
The winners will be announced at a special event on Thursday 20 June 2013 at The University of Brighton.
The sponsors
Find out more about the sponsors of the 2013 Santander University of Brighton Enterprise Awards
Sponsoring the prize fund, worth a total of £10,000. There are ten initial prizes of £250 for the best ideas across all three categories. Further prizes of £2500 will be awarded to the overall winners of each of the three categories.
The University of Brighton signed an agreement with Santander in 2008. The agreement, signed by the bank through its Santander Universities Global Division, focuses on international student exchange, entrepreneurial activities and the mobility of students and researchers to universities in one of the countries where the bank is present.
One of the activities to benefit from this funding at Brighton will be the Santander University of Brighton Enterprise Awards. Through this event Brighton wants to reward the entrepreneurial zest of its students and winners of three different categories will receive an accolade supported by Santander with cash prizes.
Through its Santander Universities Global Division, Santander has collaborated with universities for more than 15 years on a unique global initiative which distinguishes it from other banks and financial institutions. The bank supports the higher education sector in such areas as teaching and research, international cooperation, knowledge and technology transfer, entrepreneurial initiatives, student mobility and innovation.
Today Santander collaborates with nearly 1,000 academic institutions worldwide. In the UK Santander began its activity in 2007 and the bank is already collaborating with fifty-five British universities.
The university also benefits from a Santander branch on campus in the Cockcroft Building, Moulsecoomb campus which offers support and advice to the university community as well as providing preferential offers to all University of Brighton staff and students.
Please contact David Smith, Branch Manager for more information by visiting the branch, calling 05511431216 or emailing david.smith2@santander.co.uk.
Cameron and Wilding Ltd are website and software design and development specialists. Formed in January 2010 they focus on complex business process applications and work flow automation tools for various sectors, including publishing, not for profits, charities and travel.
The team of 10 have worked with many large national organisations such as Mencap, The Greater London Authority, LexisNexis and Dennis Publishing. They specialise in Open Source technology, particularly the Drupal content management system, which allows them to meet the critical business needs of their clients.
There mission is to build a large, remarkable technology company that surprises and delights clients with brilliant software and service.
info@cameronandwilding.com
www.cameronandwilding.com
Brighton based, Create is the website builder that’s been helping businesses and individuals make a splash online for over 10 years. Whoever you are and however good you are at using computers, we’ve made sure it’s a doddle to turn your ideas into reality using Create’s powerful online shop-building system.
Featuring tens of thousands of possible design combinations, a huge range of promotional tools and a legendary customer support service, Create makes it easy for you and your business to start selling online.
www.create.net
Exhibit Printing Ltd is able to offer a wide range of printing and graphic services. As a printer we pride ourselves on our in-house production and the knowledge that comes with daily hands-on work. We service a wide range of clients, offering products ranging from fine art exhibition prints through to commercial signage and banner production. We are always happy to give advice on projects and have a growing video tutorials page where we demonstrate printing and installation techniques.
www.exhibitprinting.co.uk
info@exhibitprinting.co.uk
01273 699735
Sponsoring a social media masterclass for the winners, in order to help them maximise return of their online marketing campaigns.
#1 Best?selling author and award winning serial entrepreneur, Julian Hall is behind some of the UK’s hottest start?ups. Mentoring entrepreneurs who have gone on to win awards in their own right, Julian has a passion for entrepreneurship and technology and lectures at Universities in London and the Caribbean. He also coaches entrepreneurs, executives, and CEO's at his Genius Academy.
An international speaker, Julian travels the globe delivering talks and seminars on innovation, entrepreneurship, dot com and mobile technologies and Ultrapreneurship. He has delivered these talks to audiences in the UK, Europe, USA and the Caribbean.
www.julianhall.co.uk
Sponsoring ‘Most Innovative Idea’ category with £500.00 worth of bespoke market research.
Marketest is a leading online market research company for business start-ups. We primarily work with start-up entrepreneurs and companies launching a new product or service. We provide a full range of market research services, testing the way people will react to a product or service. We use online questionnaires to examine the buying habits and needs of specially selected sample groups of potential customers.
We have more than 10 years’ experience in helping start-ups test their target markets. We provide local, national and international market research using more than 950,000 targeted panellists. Our cost-effective and rapid services (2 weeks after questionnaire validation) are ideal for new business start-ups and can play a vital role in obtaining financial support for your company.
Costs vary depending upon the number of people in the panel and their profile. Other possibilities exist for even more cost-effective market research, such as intellectual property rights transfer and partner support. Email contact@marketest.co.uk for a free quote today.
As a leading firm of Sussex solicitors, Mayo Wynne Baxter provides a comprehensive and personal service to a broad spectrum of local, national and international clients. We employ nearly 200 staff across our five offices.
Clients expect expertise and today, more than ever, specialisation is essential as the law becomes ever more complex. Because of our size, Mayo Wynne Baxter is able to specialise and yet still provide a full range of legal services.
In addition to the wide range of legal services we offer for individuals and businesses, we have specialist knowledge of working with clients from the following industries: leisure & licensing law; media & creative industries; public sector & regulatory; rural business & property; travel; professional practises; and insurance.
Each sector team benefits from the specialist knowledge of a team of experts who understand and regularly advise on the issues affecting clients in these sectors.
We have built up strong links with a number of external organisations, including patent agents, travel organisations, hotel associations and land agents, to ensure that we are up to date with the changes and challenges facing clients within these industries.
www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk
Sponsoring ‘Most entrepreneurial service’ and providing the winner with one years’ membership to their premier peer to peer business growth network for Managing Directors and Senior Board Directors in the South of England.
Solve your problems, lift the pressure, find ways through the blocks and grow your business with the support of the only people who really understand what you are going through - your own peer group of like-minded entrepreneurial Managing Directors.
Our skilled facilitators make sure that the groups are a confidential, open and honest environment that supports you and gets you the help you need, whether that is problem solving or testing new ideas.
We get to know you and your businesses extremely well, which means we can connect you with the right individuals or group but also, when needed, specialists from our network of fantastic advisors.
Our hubacademy programme backs up your business instinct with a breadth of management training for you and develops your less experienced management team to support you.
Providing copies of their just released business planning tool, to help the winners further examine the key issues that will affect them whilst trying to develop, establish and grow their new ventures.
My StartUp Plan is a new practical tool which can help aspiring entrepreneurs and start-ups get their ideas down on paper quickly and easily.
This jargon-free guide is broken down into nine manageable chunks, reflecting the key areas you need to consider when planning and developing a new or existing venture. It will not only help you to analyse your ideas, but will also encourage you to think through your idea more completely.
My StartUp Plan offers small businesses the simple and smart way to build a business plan, and can help you avoid making fundamental mistakes typical of new ventures.
mystartupplan.wordpress.com
mystartupplan@gmail.com
Will provide a unique mentoring opportunity with their Founder and MD, Sam Zubaidi in order to assist the ‘Most enterprising community project’ category winner develop their idea and move their project forward.
As a consumer, PricePie helps you see where your money goes when you buy things from businesses. As a business owner, we help you show your customers where their money goes when they shop with you, to convey your ethical credentials and build trust.
sam@pricepie.co.uk
www.pricepie.co.uk
Sponsoring a one hour workshop for all shortlisted entrants on communicating and presenting with confidence, the organisation will also offer each of the three winners a one-to-one PR masterclass to help maximise winners’ personal and professional profiles and discuss the role that media coverage could play in helping to attract investors, distributors or customers.
Vada Media Ltd is a PR consultancy based in Brighton and working nationwide. Headed by former BBC journalist Steve Bustin, Vada Media works with individuals, businesses and other organisations looking to communicate, raise their profile and make their message heard through editorial coverage in the media.
The company also provides a wide range of communication training courses, from PR Skills for SMEs to social media for business, presentation skills and storytelling for business.
Having interviewed everyone from Prime Ministers to Hollywood stars through his work as a journalist, Steve Bustin also provides high level media interview training, working with those appearing on TV, radio and in print and those looking to establish themselves as media experts. Vada Media is shortly to utilise Steve’s experience by launching a specialist training service for those working in the medical, health and surgical sectors, called Medical Media Training.
For more information about Vada Media or to contact Steve Bustin please visit www.vadamedia.co.uk.
