Enterprise & Entrepreneurship

The University is dedicated to providing support to our budding entrepreneurs. For our students who want to use their innovative and creative skills, we recommend you contact U-Hatch to discuss your ideas further and put together an action plan.

U-Hatch is an exciting new addition to GCU, breaking down the myths about starting a business, engaging and enabling our students to imagine the impossible and creating an environment to make it a reality. U-hatch will bring together experts from GCU and successful entrepreneurs, to support our students to achieve their ambitions.

They offer free support for:

• One-to-one business advice

• Access to members-only co-working and meeting facilities
• Support with developing professional connections
• Exclusive workshops and networking events
• Access to exclusive internal start-up funding and help with accessing external opportunities

If you’ve already developed your idea, then the next step is to get support for it. Entrepreneurial Spark is a business accelerator (hatchery) where start-up and early-stage businesses are hot-housed, nurtured and enabled in an intensive five months business accelerator programme.

Whatever stage your business is at, Business Gateway offers a wide range of professional resources and support. All are designed to help you learn new skills, create opportunities and develop strategies for a sustainable business.

If you’re thinking about the franchise model, then the British Franchise Agency is a good starting point. It is a self-regulating governing body for franchising with information and help for current and prospective franchisees. It also includes a list of members and training events.

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