Budding entrepreneurs from deprived backgrounds within the North-West of England have an opportunity to safe £150,000 in funding, promoting, and useful resource help by means of the Havas Enhance programme, launched by Havas Media Community UK.
This initiative goals to empower enterprise homeowners exterior London by offering very important monetary and strategic help to these demonstrating a function past revenue.
The programme invitations ten candidates to pitch their enterprise concepts in a Dragons’ Den-style occasion throughout International Entrepreneurship Week (18-25 November). To qualify, candidates should come from much less advantaged backgrounds and have an present enterprise of 2-3 years that embodies a dedication to societal influence alongside industrial success.
Following the pitch occasion in Manchester, a panel of native entrepreneurial expertise will shortlist 4 candidates, from which Havas Enhance’s board will choose the final word winner. The choice to base the programme in Manchester was pushed by insights from a YouGov enterprise survey, which discovered that 40% of much less advantaged under-35s within the North West really feel there are restricted alternatives for beginning a enterprise, in comparison with simply 19% in London.
The 2024 Havas Enhance programme is supported by the Higher Manchester Chamber of Commerce and the Media Belief, and consciousness will probably be raised by means of a devoted promoting marketing campaign throughout Manchester.
For extra info and to use, go to Havas Enhance.
