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Eligibility Criteriaand Project Evidence

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HE NW Enterprise Champions

The Enterprise Champion programme increases the number of new ventures and businesses started by students and graduates by scaling up the engagement in enterprise and entrepreneurial learning and supporting opportunities across the university campus. We substantially increase engagement in learning and support opportunities that encourage venture creation.

Stimulating enterprise and entrepreneurship across our higher education institutions is now seen by many governments as fundamental to driving economic success and social cohesion.

The European Union promotes the ‘fostering of entrepreneurial minds’ for all young people. In the UK, the government and devolved administrations encourage and support increases in the scale and diversity of students and graduates taking up entrepreneurial opportunities.

The HE Enterprise Champions Project in the North West Region of England is supported by the Regional Development Agency, financed by EU funding and is managed by NCEE (National Centre for Entrepreneurial In Education) with NwUEU (Northwest Universities European Unit Ltd) as project compliance partner.

The project initially ran for two years and due to its initial success received further funding through to July 2014.

Project awards were provided to 10 higher education institutions in the North West of England.

In Phase Two of the project we are working with 8 HEIs. The project supports the creation of a Senior-Level Enterprise Champion who will act as a catalyst for change across the campus.

North West Higher Education Champions

HE NW Enterprise Champions Project Phase 2:

Project Partners

As the project is externally funded, there are a variety of forms that all participants of the programme must complete, the forms include:

- Beneficiary Registration Form

- Beneficiary Exit Form

- New Jobs Created Form

- Business Monitoring Form 12 Months

The “Registration Form” is used to sign you up to the project and will be completed when you first attend an event or meet up with a business mentor.

The “Exit Form” will be completed when you will have received 12 hours worth of support. There are 2 parts to this form. The second part is for you to complete once you have started trading.

The “New Jobs Created” form will be completed post programme once you have started trading.

The “Business Monitoring Form 12 Months” is to be completed a year after your business has started to trade. This form helps us to see how your business is progressing and to ascertain if there is any further support that MMU is able to provide in order to help your business to grow.

Project Forms

Project Evidence

Evidence to go with Beneficiary Registration Form

Copies of meeting logs and event sign in sheets This will be the sign in sheets from any events you attended plus meeting logs from any mentoring sessions you have had.

Evidence to go with Beneficiary Exit Form

- Copy of business registration, ie. Company Registration Number

- Business Plan - First trading invoice - Company website (screen print) - VAT No and date of registration - NI Class 2 date of registration

This will be discussed with each participant individually. Upon completion, the project can pay for the basic registration with Companies House. At least 3 pieces of evidence needs to be collated.

Evidence to go with New Jobs Created Form

Contract of employment or equivalent e.g. job description with supporting evidence that post has been filled

A job description will be written for each participant according to his or her job title.

The project will also require evidence from each participant of the programme once they have started trading. A table of the evidence required is below:

Meet The Team

Dr Clare Schofield

Dr Ann Mulhaney

Claire Giddens

Laura Rimmer

Deputy Director of the Centre for Enterprise with Special Responsibility for Learning and Curriculum; Enterprise Fellow and Enterprise Champion.

Clare is the University's Enterprise Champion and is responsible for designing and delivering enterprise learning provision. Since 2008 Clare has been the MMU Enterprise Champion. She leads the NW HE Enterprise Champions project within MMU that aims to increase levels of early stage entrepreneurial activity among graduates and build capacity for entrepreneurship support across the university. Clare also manages a variety of Centre for Enterprise projects and works very closely with local SMEs as well as big businesses.

Ann is an Enterprise Champion working with the team to develop and deliver a range of courses as part of the university wide ERDF funded Enterprise Champion project.

She also provides one to one support for new business start ups and budding entrepreneurs.

Ann runs her own successful consultancy business having a portfolio of clients ranging from start up businesses to large international organisations. She is a business coach and in recent years has trained over 200 individuals to become accredited coaches.

Her experience of setting up her own business and mentoring many others is invaluable to those starting to choose the road of self employment. She can tell you exactly what to expect when you take the plunge.

Laura works as the project administrator within the Enterprise Champion team. She provides support and encouragement to students and graduates who wish to start their own business. She is your first point of call to book a DEVELOP session or to join one of ourmany courses.

She is an MMU graduate and as part of this has studied Enterprising Management as well astaking part in a Young Enterprise Programme.

Laura has worked in projects since leaving MMU as a student for different sectors but she has also set up her own businesses that she runs from home during the evenings and weekends.

Claire designs and delivers an annual rolling programme of extra-curricular workshops and activities which help students to develop enterprising skills and explore self-employment as a viable career option. Her background is in start-up business and Claire has helped many aspiring Entrepreneur to create, develop and launch their own sustainable enterprises.

She is actively involved in providing support for students and graduates within the universities incubator INNOSPACE and acts as a business mentor to many of the current businesses using the facility.

Claire is a keen champion of all enterprise activity that takes place across the university and enjoys getting involved and supporting national schemes such as Innoflux and Young Enterprise.

The Enterprise Champion team sits within the MMU Centre for Enterprise in the New Business School.We are always happy to help and you can contact us at any time by e-mailing

or by telephone on 0161 247 6605. You can also find the Centre forEnterprise on twitter - @mmucfeenterprisechampion@mmu.ac.uk