What is Spark?

Spark provides expert guidance and practical opportunities to:

  • Generate and explore ideas
  • Learn about commercial and social enterprise
  • Develop the skills and knowledge to be successful as an entrepreneur or intrapreneur
  • Win £1000 of funding to kick-start your ideas

Who is it for?

  • Ambitious, free-thinking, and motivated students from any discipline
  • People who don’t want to follow the herd
  • You need not have a business idea but you do need to want one
  • Commercially & Socially-motivated would-be entrepreneurs

Who teaches it?

  • The University’s Enterprise Education specialists
  • Alumni who’ve gone on to found their own businesses
  • Local business experts ranging from small (but ambitious) cafe-owners, to founders of digital media agencies and senior figures in major organisations

What do I get for my £75 course fee?

  • 3 lunches and 4 dinners
  • The chance to learn from and network with successful entrepreneurs and key support agencies for start-up businesses
  • A hugely energetic, challenging, and fun learning experience!
 

What Other People Said

  • The best bits were the ideas bouncing off one-another every day and especially talking about branding and marketing ideas.

Pictures from Previous Years