Founded by Emily Brooke and Philip Ellis, Blaze is blazing the cycling industry with its innovative tech and design. Blaze won the NACUE Varsity Pitch in 2013, and since then, there has been no looking for this groundbreaking startup. Phil Ellis, 29, said “The Varsity Pitch Competition seems like a ...
As Local Spoon describes itself, it is the Snapchat for last-minute local food deals. Founded by Diana Florescu, it won the Lloyd's Online People’s Vote award at Varsity Pitch 2016. She describes NACUE’s Varsity Pitch as ‘welcoming and an inspiring environment’. She also added that all the partners involved did ...
As a new (or aspiring) entrepreneur, you will make mistakes (and lots of them). I’m afraid you cannot avoid this, although would it make you feel better if I told you that some of your mistakes are a good thing (as in, they help you turn your good idea into a ...
Long time friend and supporter of NACUE, Harvey Morton has been nominated by Sheffield Hallam University for an award in Entrepreneurship. He has spoken at both the 2016 and 2017 Student Enterprise Conferences and is a great champion for what can be achieved with your business whilst still studying. Read ...
Hamish McLaren is a 25-year-old business owner and entrepreneur in Australia, with experience in extensive travel and photography. Most smartphones these days are amazing pieces of technology that surpass even professional cameras from the 1980s and earlier. However, all of that tech doesn't mean a whole lot if ...
Joanna Montgomery, Founder of Little Riot won NACUE Varsity Pitch in 2011. Joanna, 29, started Little Riot after completing her Interaction Design degree at Dundee University. Little Riot is a tech startup specializing in human-centric interaction design. They create smart and ‘loveable’ products, that change how we use technology. Their ...
In the world of business all everyone talks about is how to achieve a better work life balance, which tells us one thing at least: it's an endless challenge, which it is, especially for entrepreneurs, but at the same time I don't believe that it's impossible to achieve. In fact, ...
Why is it that some the most game-changing businesses to be developed over the last 25 years have come out of university campuses? It can’t be that only students have great ideas, or that entrepreneurs at university have unique access to capital, equipment and skills. After all you don’t stop having ...
How We Ran A successful society for 15 years! Fish on Toast has reached over 22,000 students, hosted over 500 speakers and created countless entrepreneurs including Ali Mitchell Founder of $200million company, Huddle. Fish on Toast was founded in 2002 and since then there have been 15 generations of committees, each with ...
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.
