Summer accelerator
Spend your summer vacation working on launching your business with our support, and find out whether your plans are heading in the right direction for success.
If accepted onto the summer accelerator, you will receive:
- a living allowance of £2,000 to cover eight weeks solely focusing on launching your business
- use of a workspace for eight weeks
- access to support from the University and five hours of specialist business coaching
Made possible by Santander
You should have a business or social enterprise idea in mind and be committed to putting it into practice over the Summer vacation. The idea should be your own, although applications from two or more students will be considered, again provided that the business idea belongs jointly to the students involved. Joint applications can only receive a single package of support.
We do not expect you to fully develop a successful business in a ten week period. The Summer Accelerator is about exploring the idea to see if it might work on a longer term basis. Discovering that the idea is less viable than you first imagined is a perfectly valid outcome.
All successful applicants must keep a record of their experiences and be willing to share their learning from the experience with future applicants and other students.
Applying
We'll announce when applications are open - join the mailing list and our LinkedIn group to stay tuned.
Previous participants
We've seen a fascinating range of ideas from earlier groups - you can hear about two examples below. Other ideas have included conservation consultancy, flexible to-do list software, a platform that lets offices make the most of their empty space and a new way for charities to record crowdsourced data.
