Students! Make Your Mark
Making something happen with your enterprising ideas whilst at college or university is a creative way to earn money on your own terms, pay off debts, learn new skills and make useful contacts.
Or you might want to make social or environmental change - like Jamie Oliver’s 15 or The Big Issue - with your own enterprising idea. Whether you’ve got ‘a big idea’ yourself or an interest in working creatively get involved now.
The campaign aims to stimulate student networks - to inspire and encourage creativity and provide an outlet for ideas. Ideas cannot happen in isolation and collaboration via networks can bring together the right mix of people, skills and experience needed to turn ideas into reality.
“Starting up a business or venture while you are at university or college is an amazing experience”, says campaign ambassador and founder of Oxford Entrepreneurs, Rajeeb Day.
“It’s a perfect time to try out ideas: there’s a massive network of other young people to bounce ideas off, you have few responsibilities like mortgages to worry about and above all it gives you skills and experience that will be valuable in the world of work if you don’t make your first million before you leave!”
Ideas Igloo roadshows
Innovator Alex Tew is leading a search for hidden entrepreneurs in colleges and universities across the UK as the face of the Ideas Igloo roadshows, coordinated by the Make Your Mark campaign in partnership with Microsoft UK.Inspiring student stories
Have a look at these stories about people who made their idea happen while they were, or still are, students.
Orange Make Your Mark Graduate Panel
The Orange Make Your Mark Graduate Panel is a team of undergraduates, graduates and post-graduates who want to have a voice in the debate about what businesses must do to understand and inspire young people in the workplace.
Useful links
If you want to know more about student entrepreneurship, these organisations will be able to help.