LAST CALL
FOR BUDDING STUDENT
ENTREPRENEURS TO SCOOP £50,000 PRIZE
• Student and graduate business owners urged to enter Lloyds TSB Enterprise Awards
• Final date for entries, 30 Jan 2012, is just two weeks away
• Winner set to win £50,000 cash prize to invest in their business and comprehensive business mentoring programme
• Competition is open to businesses across England, Scotland and Wales
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Entrepreneurs across Britain are being urged to enter the race to find the country’s best Student and Graduate businesses, and compete for a £50,000 investment and mentoring prize1, through the Lloyds TSB Enterprise Awards.
Nominations for the Awards are set to close on 30 January, meaning that potential entrants have just two weeks to complete their applications. Anyone wanting to enter can apply online by visiting
www.lloydstsb.com/enterpriseawards and applications will then be considered by a judging panel in one of eight finals across England, Scotland and Wales, during February - and in a grand final on 13 March at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Liverpool2. The scheme, launched in partnership with the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs (NACUE), the UK’s only representative of university entrepreneurs, is part of Lloyds Banking Group’s drive to help start ups and growth firms and aims to support the estimated
55,000 student businesses across Britain, that are striving to make their mark. The Awards are open to entrepreneurs currently studying at universities across England, Scotland or Wales - or who graduated within the past five years and have been trading for more than one year.
All entrants will be considered for two titles - Best Start Up, which will be awarded to a business in its early stages; and Best Enterprise which will be awarded to the business judged to show real potential to grow over the next five years to become a recognised SME within its respective sector. The overall winner of the Awards will receive £50,000 to invest in their business, together with a comprehensive two-year mentoring programme, involving senior executives from Lloyds Banking Group, designed to provide coaching and support on critical business issues such as planning, finance, recruitment and marketing. Each of the winners will also receive free legal advice with an independent specialist law firm3. John Maltby, Group Director, Commercial, Lloyds Banking
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