And the finalists are......

The final 8 City of Liverpool College Enterprise Club Students made it through Business Boot Camp, and submitted their business plans to be in with the chance to win a £3,000 prize package at next week’s #IAmEnterprising Championship Event.

#IAmEnterprising has offered students the support to develop their business ideas with a series of events over the past few months, in order to win an over £3,000 prize package of investment. The prize includes £1,000 cash sponsorship from Morecrofts Solicitors.

The remaining £2,000 will be made up of business services to help the winner to launch and sustain their business. Contributing to the price package by way of services to support business start-up are partners; Chic Networking, Downtown in Business and Agent Marketing.

The shortlisted candidates are: 

Olga Bokova, Danny Curran and John Wilson, Suzie Higgins, Katie Johnson, Kiara Mako, Jessica Peirce, Mikey Peterson and Ashley Rose Standish. 

Between them they have an exciting range of business ideas to take forward and are all current students at the college.

Donal Bannon, Head of Commercial at Morecrofts Solicitors says ‘We are delighted with the quality of business propositions submitted by the students and are looking forward to meeting the finalists and hearing their pitches at the final event next Wednesday. Congratulations to all who have taken part in the process. The drive and determination shown by the students is essential to succeed in business.’

The City of Liverpool College Enterprise Club Students who had registered their interest in the #IAmEnterprising Project, after registering their interesting and submitting a short business brief were invited to Business Boot Camp, hosted by The Women’s Organisation and attended by Former Lord Mayor and Councillor Gary Millar who spoke to the students about the business landscape of Liverpool. Here the students learnt and developed their skills in finance, marketing, presentation and other vital areas in order to prepare them for their next challenge.

Over 20 business propositions were then submitted to The Women’s Organisation and from here a shortlist of 8 have been chosen. These finalists will be present at the Championship Event on Wednesday 29^th April 2015 at the Learning Exchange Centre on Roscoe Street, to compete for the chance to win the £3,000 prize package.

At the Championship Event, the finalists will have to pitch their business ideas before a panel of esteemed judges, made up of business representatives from the college, and partner organisations; Morecrofts Solicitors, Chic Networking, Downtown in Business and Agent Marketing.

Once the winner for the #IAmEnterprising project has been announced they will receive the prize money to launch their business, a launch event from Chic Networking, branding and design support from Agent Marketing and a year’s Business Club sponsorship from Downtown in Business. 

Well done and GOOD LUCK to all of the finalists!