This is the end, beautiful friends, this is the end. Not of Manchester Entrepreneurs - that would be blasphemy -  but of my tenure at the helm. Having gained a reputation for sending long emails, I thought it was appropriate for my last to be short! Relatively! This past year has given us many reasons to celebrate; we have gone from a society trying to find its feet to over 1200 members making us one of the largest in the UK, raised about £10,000 in cash and in kind from organisations like Microsoft,... more

You’ve read our newsletters, come to our events, won funding from us, we’ve inspired you, supported your businesses, now we are giving you the chance to run the society as part of our 10/11 committee. Think the newsletter can be catchier, the website better, participants can be increased? or want to join an exciting and dynamic team? We want you. Apply to be on the committee! To apply all you have to do is email: Your name, contact email, student number and which position you would... more

The final few days of Venture Further 2010 - Deadline 5pm, April 19th This is it, with the final deadline 5pm April 19th, this is the last chance to submit your business plan and try to win up to £8000 to help move your business forward. Each entry should comprise two files only, any additional files will be ignored. These two files are 1) Your application and team details which will include a copy of your executive summary and details of who if any MEC (Manchester Enterprise Centre) staff you have... more

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Manchester students will come face to face with an Apprentice legend at a FlyingStart workshop in February. Claire Young repeatedly challenged Sir Alan Sugar in the 2008 series, earning a reputation as a no nonsense sales woman, often referred to as a ‘Rottweiler.’ Despite being the bookies biggest ever favourite to win the Apprentice, she lost out in the final to Lee McQueen. This didn’t deter her though, as she went on to start her own wedding services business, Elegant Venues, after spotting... more

Order tickets via Eventbrite (FREE): http://manchesterentrepreneurs-efbevent.eventbrite.com Join Manchester Entrepreneurs and the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs(NACUE) North region in one of the biggest events ever at University of Manchester. Listen to a collection of intellectual, inspiring and practical talks from UK’s leading entrepreneurs. Talking on the night will be NACUE Senior Advisor Julie Meyer, Founder of Ariadne Capital and First Tuesday and BBC Online Dragon.... more

Date October 14th 2009: Meet and Greet October 20th 2009: Skills Workshop - Accenture November 17th 2009: Business Game - Make Your Mark November 18th 2009: Speakers Series: GEW Special November 19th 2009: Speed Networking December 10th 2009: The Pitch - Win Funding for your business (Speakers: Julia Meyer - Online Dragon’s Den and top 30 most influential women in Europe) February 1st 2010: Mentorship Scheme - with Career Service February 10th 2010: Flying Start: Business Bootcamps March... more

Now (Before the summer): If you would like to join our team next year, we would like to invite you to our Leadership Empowering Workshop (Our Recruitment Event) on Monday 15th June 2009 from 4:00pm-6:00pm at C24 Sackville Street Building, Sackville Street, Manchester. M60 1QD (Detail of the venues: http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/ceebl/facilities/ ) Target Audience: Prospective Enterprise Society Managers and Project Leaders 2009-2010. Timetable: 4:00-4:15 Everything you need to know about Manchester... more

EVENT: Enterprise Society Year End Event - Let’s GO APE!!! DATE: 9th MAY 2009 TIME: 11:00am to 5:00pm PRICE: approx £25/person TRANSPORTATION: we will provide minibus from the uni to go ape site PLEASE SIGN UP NOW AS SPACE IS LIMITED!! a deposit of £10 is required (to be collected next week) TO SIGN UP: Call Vicki at 07551384765 or by email at info@manchesterentrepreneurs.org.uk Not sure what it is? Take a look at the video below. http://www.goape.co.uk/days-out-in/cumbria/grizedale/the-course Our... more

Date: 27th March 2009 Venue: The Oxford Pub, 421 - 423 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WG Time: 14:00-16:00pm We truly believe that the future is in your hand, in our conversation club, each participant read an article that they love the most to the rest of the group on a Friday afternoon, we discuss what is happening around the world, predict what will happen in the future and plan for actions. What happened in our Friday conversation club last week? 1, We read something exciting 2, We shared something... more