If you are based in Cornwall and have a business idea that could be turned in to an award winning business then you could access £100,000 of cash and services by entering the Ignite Cornwall Business Plan Competition.
How to Enter
Vist the Ignite Cornwall Competition site to enter the competition and get more details.
Initial entries are open up until the 31st December 2009. Successful applicants will be invited to attend a Training day where experts will give advice on how to produce, potentially, an award-winning business plan. From this stage business plans must be submitted by 31 March 2010.
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It’s Global Entrepreneurship Week! There are loads of events and competitions going on this week. You can check out the whole thing over at the main site .
The The Make Your Mark Challenge 2009 was also launched today aiming to “Let local inspiration lead you to a ‘cool’ creation”. Over 70,000 students are working on the Challenge today, making it the UK’s biggest one day enterprise challenge! You can find out what they are up to here.
]]>The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship support social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential for large-scale influence on critical challenges of our time: tolerance and human rights, health, economic and social equity, peace and security, institutional responsibility, and environmental sustainability. These issues are at the heart of the foundation’s vision of empowering people to create a peaceful, prosperous, sustainable world. Within these issues, Skoll is particularly interested in applications from social entrepreneurs working in five critical sub-issue areas that they consider to threaten the survival of humanity – climate change, nuclear proliferation, pandemics, conflict in the Middle East and water scarcity.
The Skoll Awards provide later-stage, or mezzanine, funding. In most cases, the grant is provided for core supportto help organizations expand their programs and capacity to deliver long-term, sustainable equilibrium change. The Skoll Awards are not intended for new or early-stage programmes or initiatives. Programmes submitted for consideration should have a track record of no less than three years.
Deadline for Applying:
Applications are accepted and reviewed on a year-round basis, with successful applicants receiving initial funding installments shortly after decisions are made. The current deadline is February 17, 2010 with the internal review process for these applications taking a minimum of six months to be completed. Awards will be presented publicly at a ceremony at the Skoll World Forum, which occurs at the end of every March in Oxford, England.
How to Apply
You can find out more about the Skoll Awards here
]]>The awards give recognition to women in business throughout the Northwest and reward the huge contribution that they make to the regional economy.
The Awards, organised by the Northwest Women’s Enterprise Forum (NWWEF) celebrate the achievements of the women who are running some of the region’s most successful and innovative businesses and inspire more women to consider enterprise as a career.
The Awards take place on Friday 29 January 2010 at Ribby Hall, Lancashire. This year there are 5 awards categories including a specialist Creative & Digital sector award.
Deadline for entries is Friday 20th November 2009
How to Apply
]]>The Future 100 Winners are applicable to be provided with:
- Media and PR training
- Exclusive London networking events and opportunities
- Business coaching, training and professional mentoring support
The deadline for application is November 5th, 2009
How to Apply
To find out more and apply visit www.future100.co.uk or contact Quinn Simpson at quinn@stridingout.co.uk
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