Welcome to our first edition of 2012! This

newsletter covers all of the latest activities

we’ve been involved in – ranging from

helping Keele students to establish an

Enterprise Society, to commissioning a

former EFS company, Inspired Film and

Video, to produce a number of film

testimonials of some start-up businesses

from the SpeedWM and EFS scheme. We

hope you enjoy reading on!

Enterprise Society

We’ve recently been supporting the

establishment of a student-led Enterprise

Society at Keele. Around 35 interested

students attended an initial meeting for the

Society and a committee has now been

established.

The committee comprises of:

David Yodaiken (President)

Pumundeep Sandhu (Vice-President)

Aprajita Rai (Treasurer)

Jared Whiting (Events Management)

Daniel Weedon (Marketing)

Emily Iles (Social Secretary)

Immaculate Koigi (Secretary)

If you’re interested in becoming a member of the

Enterprise Society, please email Society President,

David Yodaiken on: davidyod@hotmail.co.uk

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T: 01782 733441 (Dee) or 01782 734491 (Linsey)

D.A.Frankish@uso.keele.ac.uk or L.Humphries@uso.keele.ac.uk

http://twitter.com/KeeleEnterprise | www.keele.ac.uk/studententerprise

Business Ideas Competition

We’re currently looking for students and graduates

who have a business or business idea to submit to the

National University Entrepreneur 2012 competition and

we’re really keen to hear from as many of Keele’s

budding entrepreneurs as possible!

As it’s the year of the Olympic Games, the competition

is looking for businesses / ideas inspired by the

opportunities surrounding the Games.

How it works:

• Students and graduates (from July 2007 onwards)

complete an application form downloaded from our

website.

• After judging, we’ll submit the top two entries to the

national competition, which is open to all

universities.

Prizes:

These four winning business ideas from all universities

will have the unique opportunity to participate in a

Dragons’ Den event, in front of a well-known dragon

and four other business experts, at the Global

Business Summit at the British Business Embassy in

London in August 2012. They will also receive an

additional package of support and mentoring.

To find out more please see the Student Enterprise

website where you can download an application form.

The deadline for your entries is March 12th 2012.

If you’d like to discuss your idea or application, feel

free to contact us.

T: 01782 733441 (Dee) or 01782 734491 (Linsey)

D.A.Frankish@uso.keele.ac.uk or L.Humphries@uso.keele.ac.uk

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SIFE

Student Enterprise has recently been chatting with

first year Media and Sociology student, Catt Chrimes,

who is interested in establishing a SIFE team at

Keele.

As a global not-for-profit organisation which currently

involves 57,000 students in universities in 39 countries,

SIFE stands for Students In Free Enterprise.

It’s all about using enterprising skills to support the needs

of the community and it enables students from any

academic discipline to develop projects which create

economic opportunities for others, by improving financial

or literacy skills and helping people to develop their own

personal skills too.

This can range from putting on Maths workshops in local

schools, to teaching the elderly IT skills, helping a young

entrepreneur to develop a business plan, teaching

English to immigrant communities or helping a hospice

develop a marketing plan and new products to sell.

If you’re interested in getting involved in SIFE at Keele,

please send Linsey (email at the bottom of the page) and

Catt Chrimes ( cattchrimes_sife@hotmail.co.uk ) an email

to register your interest, we’ll then be able to keep you

informed of SIFE’s establishment at Keele!

We’re hoping to run a new scheme similar to

SpeedWM and EFS in Autumn 2012.

We recently worked with Inspired

Film and Video - a former EFS

company formed by graduates

from Staffordshire University

which is now based at Keele

University Science and Business

Park - to produce the films.

We now have a number of films

on our website which show some

of our former SpeedWM and

EFS programme participants

talking about their businesses

and the support they have been

provided with. You can view all

five films on our website:

www.keele.ac.uk/studententerpri

se/videotestimonials/

More Competitions Coming Soon!

We’ll soon be recruiting applicants for this year’s

Santander Awards of Entrepreneurship competition

and we’ll be awarding prize money to the top

business ideas submitted by Keele undergraduates

and postgraduates.

As some of you may remember, we took part in the

first year of the competition in 2011, when we

submitted the business idea of second year

undergraduates, David Yodaiken and Graham

Fisher, to the national competition. Their company,

YOUniversity, which sells student survival packs, is

now fully established.

This year we’ll not only be submitting the top two

ideas to the national competition, but we’ll be

awarding prize money to a number of the top

business ideas submitted to Keele’s first stage of the

competition.

More details will be provided in our next newsletter,

and you can also look out for updates on our

Facebook and Twitter pages.