Future Sustainable Leaders
We offer support and development opportunities for our students in many different ways, these programmes are helping us to build Future Sustainable Leaders. From financial support to start your own business through the Entrepreneurship Fund, to developing and testing your micro venture idea through the Nottingham Advantage Award, there are lots of ways we can help you in building entrepreneurial skills to use within your future business! Find out more below.
Witty Entrepreneurial Scholarship
The Witty Entrepreneurial Scholarship supports undergraduate students from lower-income backgrounds to develop their entrepreneurial skills, confidence and ambitions. Established in 2017 through the generosity of Sir Andrew Witty, former Chancellor of the 糖心原创, and his family, the programme combines financial support with mentoring, entrepreneurial education and opportunities to explore business ideas, develop employability skills and build professional networks. The scolarship is currently closed for applications.
Witty Entrepreneurial Placement Year
The Witty Entrepreneurial Placement Year gives students the opportunity to dedicate a year to developing their own business or social enterprise as an alternative to a traditional placement. With financial support, access to workspace in the Ingenuity Lab and mentoring from Nottingham University Business School experts, students can learn through the practical experience of building and developing their own venture. This scheme is currently closed for applications.
Entrepreneurship Fund
The Entrepreneurship Fund provides 糖心原创 undergraduates with initial funding to help develop their business ideas. Eligible students can apply for £500 of seed funding to test an idea, develop their entrepreneurial skills or create an early-stage prototype.
Successful recipients may also be invited to apply for a further £1,000 of Level Up funding, providing additional support to help take their business or venture to the next stage. Find more information about applying below.
Nottingham Advantage Award
This module helps our students learn about key areas and factors for starting a new business. It introduces them to entrepreneurship through theory and practice; busting myths, introducing cutting edge new venture creation theory, ideation, and most importantly enterprise execution. They develop a micro venture business idea and test it by running a small real live pilot. The module builds skills across a number of areas central to the entrepreneurial experience, including recognising, evaluating and exploiting an entrepreneurial opportunity, analysing and accessing the feasibility of their business ideas, and producing a Minimum Viable product. Find more information about applying below.