Services
Business and Enterprise Workshops
One-to-one business support
UltraVolet intensive summer course
Beepurple champion scheme
Enterprise awards
Challenges
Business and enterprise workshops
Throughout the course of the academic year, beepurple brings you a range of extra-curricular workshops to help you develop your enterprise skills and entrepreneurial thinking. At each session, you’ll meet a range of like-minded people and have the opportunity to talk to recent graduates who have taken the leap and set up businesses or charities since leaving university. More established, local, entrepreneurs and recent graduates who’ve setup their own ventures also come in to share their advice and business experiences (both good and bad!).
Participants can attend as many or a few sessions as are relevant to your individual needs, however we do operate a loyalty card system, so if you can attend any 10 sessions in an academic year, we’ll give you a certificate of attendance and a mystery prize (this year it’s the excellent The Essential Business Guide, worth £24.95, provided courtesy of Essential Business).
Workshops are also open to the general public at the highly subsidised rate of £10.00 per workshop.
One-to-one business support
Not sure if your idea has any legs? Need to get a fresh approach on how you’re managing your business, or uncertain as to how to advance things to the next step? Whatever stage of development you are at, the beepurple team is able to meet up on a one-to-one basis with you to offer support and advice to help you develop and move your ideas forward and discuss any issues you may currently be facing.
UltraViolet (intensive summer course)
Directly after the last week of the summer term, beepurple organises a week’s worth of intensive training aimed at students just finishing their degrees and hoping to gain practical skills to aid them in their graduate jobs and in setting up their own ventures – as a self-employed individual, a business, a social enterprise or a charity. Please visit the UltraViolet page for further details.
Beepurple Champion Scheme (volunteering scheme)
This is your chance to get involved with the beepurple project on a voluntary basis and have the opportunity to develop key project management skills by running a small project of your choice (with some guidelines set by us) benefiting the beepurple programme as a whole. If you don’t have your own project, we have a few ourselves and would also like to find a group of students from each campus to run a series of enterprise-related events at their own site during the academic year.
Enterprise awards
The beepurple team run an annual ideas competition for students and graduates to reward the best ideas for businesses and social enterprises. Previous winners of the competition have gone on to win further national awards, and secure grant funding from the National Lottery.
The awards launch in January each year, and give student and graduates the opportunity to win up to £2500 and support to turn their ideas into reality! For information on past winners please click here.
Challenges
We feel the best way to learn anything, is simply to just do it. Beepurple aims to provide a number of opportunities to put your skills to the test, by running elevator pitch competitions, a series of fundraising tasks for local charities and student societies and we’ve also had members brainstorming solutions to two local businesses, who were struggling with a certain aspect of their organisations.
