What is Spark?

Spark provides expert guidance and practical opportunities to:

  • Generate and explore ideas
  • Learn about commercial and social enterprise - models for creating sustainable businesses
  • Develop the skills and knowledge to be successful in any sector
  • 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
  • Commercially & Socially-motivated people with a desire to change things
  • Anyone who wants to do something with their ideas, passions and interests

Who teaches it?

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

What do I get for my £80 course fee?

  • 4 lunches and 5 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 bit of this course was actually doing stuff, real hands-on experience of taking a concept all the way through to pitching it.

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