Enterprise Awards
The awards
The Santander University of Brighton Enterprise Awards are open to students and graduates and aim to discover the best new business ideas with potential.
Entry to the 2012 competition closed on Friday 2 March. The top ten initial ideas win £250 and the chance to develop their skills and ideas through a specialist training course.
These selected finalists will then have the chance to win a further £2500 and expert business advice to help their idea 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 and all prize winners will also receive 50 free business cards from MOO.
Secondary prizes
The ten winners as identified above will then be invited to undertake a day’s worth of enterprise training to help them develop their product and prepare them for the final stage of the competition.
From here, there will be one overall winner in each category, each of whom will win a further £2500 cash prize, a website courtesy of Mr Site and a roller banner stand and £50.00 of poster printing from Exhibit Printing Ltd, a company founded by a Brighton graduate and past recipients of an Enterprise Award in 2009! Winners from each specific category will also get:
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.
Most enterprising community project – UnLtd will provide a mentor to help move the winning project forward.
The winners will be announced at a special event on Thursday, 7 June 2012 at which all shortlisted entrants are expected to attend.
The sponsors
Find out more about the sponsors of the 2012 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 Holly Price, Branch Manager for more information by visiting the branch, calling 05511431216 or emailing holly.price@santander.co.uk
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 ‘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.
Sponsoring ‘Most entrepreneurial service’ and providing the winner with one years’ membership to their premier business club for leading MDs in the South East.
Offering all winners 50 free Business Cards from MOO.
MOO is a new kind of printing business. We're an online stationer helping both individuals and businesses to stand out in an over-crowded world. With our unique printing technology - which we call 'Printfinity' - we help customers to celebrate themselves and their brand. Printfinity gives everyone the opportunity to print a completely different image on every single Card or Sticker in a pack. Upload straight from your computer, import images from your social network, or use beautiful artwork created by MOO's Designers. The stationery you print with MOO is as individual as you are.
Providing one Takeaway Website Pro/Storefront website to each of the three overall winners of each category, which will help the winners raise their visibility online.
Mr Site was set up in 2004 and we swiftly became the UK’s favourite provider of innovative website-building packages, web hosting and e-commerce software. Since then we've helped thousands of people all over the world build and manage their own websites. We create online tools that are not only technically excellent – they’re incredibly easy to use. We know how much someone’s website matters to them, whatever they use it for, and so we aim to support our customers every step of the way.
UnLtd will provide a mentor, from their Connect network, to better equip the ‘Most enterprising community project’ category winner to develop their idea and move their project forward.
UnLtd’s mission is to reach out and unleash the energies of people who can transform the world in which they live. We call these people social entrepreneurs. UnLtd provide a complete package of funding and non-financial support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality.
