Last November five universities - four of them NACUE members - came together for the Social Enterprise Start-Up Weekend. The weekend consisted of workshops on areas such as business idea generation and lean startup methodologies. The weekend was put on for students to develop business models, to then be pitched ...
PhD student Alan Radbourne, 25, has done what many entrepreneurs struggle to in their first year of business - generate profit! Starting out with a meagre £1, he has now made over £20,000 in just one year. We caught up with Alan who will be speaking at the Student Enterprise ...
After a successful five years, NACUE bids a fond farewell to Professor Alan Barrell, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Since joining NACUE in 2009 as an advisor, he has worked tirelessly to support NACUE, championing student enterprise and nurturing an entrepreneurial generation.Alan is one of the longest serving members ...
Institutional members Gateshead college launched an independent outlet for enterprising students to trial and showcase startup businesses. Having secured £50,000 of funding from Royal Bank of Scotland the college were able to create handPICKED. HandPICKED is the first North East College to open a business to help accommodate retail-focused startups established ...
Last Wednesday ten passionate and enthusiastic young people were selected to attend our Student Advisory Board (SAB) at NACUE HQ. We welcomed the opportunity to hear views from NACUE alumni, college and university students from across our network.Our Student Advisory Board plays an incredibly important role in NACUE, not only ...
During the Varsity Pitch Competition we sat down with this years winners Ed and Harry to talk about their app, launching their own business and why they entered the competition. Tell us about your app?Harry: Our app is called Wyre and it’s a mobile payments app that aims to make mobile ...
Every year our Varsity Pitch competition attracts hundreds of applicants, this year was no different with over 400 applications. Our Varsity Pitch finalists were in a calibre of their own, with exciting businesses in fashion, leisure, tech and more! During the Varsity Pitch final we caught up with Mat Dusting, ...
Last Global Entrepreneurship Week we unveiled a massive surprise by launching The Wall! This is a revamped, bigger, better - and let’s admit, a much more user friendly - online community that’s been designed to make it easier for enterprising students, graduates and educators to connect!Introducing The Wall is a complete guide ...
Last week marked Global Entrepreneurship Week - one of the biggest campaigns for entrepreneurs across the country. We had a week full of events going on in our network. We hosted two great events during the week and even unveiled a few surprises!On Tuesday we presented Startup Career Launchpad (SCLP), ...
We've achieved a great deal in a short number of years, though there's much more too do in supporting our mission of 'Powering the Enterprise Generation'.
NACUE is a charitable organisation that supports 32,000 students and young people every year. As funding becomes harder to obtain, we rely on the generous support of donors to ensure our programs can continue to change the lives and aspirations of the younger generation.
A donation of any size goes a long way to furthering our work and really is greatly appreciated. Every gift matters in aiding our mission of ‘Powering the Enterprising Generation' but we mainly rely upon the generosity of our members and alumni to do this. By making a single or regular donation you can make a big difference. To learn more about how you can donate, please follow the links below.
NACUE are delighted to have supported a huge number of student-led societies over the years. You can see the number of established student-led societies on an interactive map below
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Our events offer the young people we work with the opportunity to connect with our wider network, the experts and seasoned entrepreneurs in our community and the chance to be inspired to take the leap of faith into entrepreneurship. These events are attended by students and graduates from universities and colleges up and down the UK, as well as students from across Europe. Student Societies take centre stage at our events, alongside innovators, game changers and trail blazers of the UK startup ecosystem.
It has been a great pleasure working closely with NACUE. NACUE has supported me both on big and small issues within my role. Without NACUE’s support, Entrepreneurs Durham wouldn’t be where it is today.
The pleasure of seeing young people start something from nothing and watching them as they’re growing is wonderful. If we hadn’t had NACUE, we couldn’t do a lot of what we’re doing now. I can absolutely, categorically say that.
I am enjoying it (the enterprise society) a lot, and it’s great to be achieving something real. So often in college we plan to the point of doing the activity but then never actually do it.
