Student Enterprise events

Grow your skills and shape your future with free student enterprise workshops and events - open to all students and graduates.

Just log in with your student account to see our monthly events during term time.

Any questions?

Contact beepurple@brighton.ac.uk

Thinking about freelancing but not sure how to get started?

As a student, you could work as a freelance content creator, social media marketer, copywriter, photographer, film maker, graphic designer, illustrator, animator, musician, proof reader, researcher, editor, or tutor – among other roles.

Want to launch your own business and network with like-minded people?

Then sign up for beepurple’s FREE four-day business summer school, The StartUp Hive 2025, to get you launch-day ready!

Win up to £1000 in the People and Planet Prize

The People and Planet Prize: Student Enterprise Competition 2025 is the University of Brighton’s annual, early-stage ideas competition, which encourages you to generate an idea for a startup, social enterprise, or freelancing service that you can turn into a viable business that benefits people or our planet.

Beepurple launch new grant fund to boost Startup Hive 24 ventures

Beepurple, the student enterprise team, supported by the Higher Education Innovation Fund, has launched a new grant fund exclusively open to students and graduates (from the Class of 2023 or more recently) who registered for, or attended, the recent StartUp Hive 2024 summer course.