Enterprise NI: Start Her Up
Archived
organisational development
social enterprise
Antrim & Newtownabbey
Ards & North Down
Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon
Belfast City
Causeway Coast and Glens
Derry City and Strabane
Fermanagh and Omagh
Lisburn and Castlereagh
Mid and East Antrim
Mid Ulster
Newry, Mourne and Down
Northern Ireland
Micro (up to £1,000)
Overview
Start Her Up welcomes all young women aged 18 – 40 particularly encouraging young BAME women, young women living with a disability, and young women living with neurodiversity to register!
Selected participants will be entered into the Start Her Up competition with the opportunity to win funding to help take their business/idea to the next level. The winner will receive an award of up to £1,000.
Start Her Up will:
- Build awareness of the opportunity for self-employment and entrepreneurship
- Encourage and enable YOU to start and grow YOUR enterprise
- Develop confidence to engage with early-stage entrepreneurial & enterprise activity & confidence to navigate the complexity of the support ecosystem
What you can expect...
- All participants will receive a bespoke personal development plan based on the entrepreneurial diagnostic completed at the Start Her Up event in your area.
- All participants have the opportunity to attend 4 bespoke virtual workshops.
- Participants are selected in September by our panel of judges based on their personal development plans to receive 1:1 mentoring.
- 20 participants are selected in October by our panel of business advisors to enter the Start Her Up competition.
- Competition is via video entry and requires finalists to prepare, deliver and submit a 2-minute growth plan pitch. (support for video entry will be provided in October)
- Start Her Up competition winner receives £1,000 towards their Start Her Up journey.
- Start Her Up competition runner-ups (two) receive £500 each towards their Start Her Up journey.