Innovation and enterprise calendar

Our jam-packed calendar will keep you busy throughout the year. Take part in everything from an annual Dragons' Den style pitching competition, to our Enterprise Festival and Pitch-A-Thon, a live pitching competition, where you could bag £500.

Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW)

GEW is the world’s largest campaign to promote entrepreneurship. We have a host of activities on offer to celebrate GEW, including test trading opportunities, workshops, networking and guest speakers.

Enterprise Festival

Join us for a celebration of all things enterprising at UWE Bristol. Take part in an enterprise challenge, develop your enterprising skills, network with entrepreneurs and professionals and compete for a cash prize in our pitching competition. More about the Enterprise Festival.

Workshops and events

Workshops, events and activities to explore ideas and turn your passion into a livelihood.

Be your own boss workshops

Learn how to make money doing what you love and how to successfully manage a freelance or portfolio career. Come to them all or choose individual workshops based on your needs at Frenchay.

You can now sign up for these by searching ‘BYOB’ via events on InfoHub.

Your Future in Freelancing 

Your Future in Freelancing (YFIF) is a series of workshops at City Campus to help you develop commercial awareness and business skills on your path to becoming a freelancer or self-employed.

Start-up drinks networking

Build your network and hear local entrepreneurs’ start-up experiences, as well as one-minute promotional pitches from audience members. Please register for start-up events via InfoHub.

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Careers and enterprise events

Find out about careers and enterprise related events including employer fairs, enterprise competitions, workshops and volunteering schemes.
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Work experience, jobs and placements

Use UWE Bristol's in depth resources to find graduate jobs, internships, work experience and volunteering opportunities.
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Financial support and funding for start-ups and business ideas

A range of funding opportunities to help you get your idea off the ground or take it to the next level, from pitching competitions to start-up scholarships.
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Advice and business support

Online resources, business advice clinics, an entrepreneurs support programme and a team of enterprise advisers.