Edward Purchase
“Proud to have recently joined the team at Purple Motion where we are creating a more sustainable business model for bike share schemes allowing bike travel to be accessible to all and less reliant on intermittent public funding. Our first location will be Loughborough (of course!), enabling students to quickly and cheaply get across campus as well as providing an alternative to overcrowded and unreliable buses into town. We hope this scheme will accelerate progress towards car-free urban travel and reduce our carbon footprints as a student population. All of this wouldn’t have been possible without LEN, all their great events and funding opportunities have helped me develop my entrepreneurial skills as well as validating various ideas.”
Carolyn Nakazibwe
Kingdom Lanyards
"Kingdom Lanyards is an enterprise dedicated to elevating and supporting events by transforming their vision into reality through lanyard creativity and innovative designs. Our lanyards help to ensure security through authorisation of holders for access, brand identification and professionalism for businesses, and creativity and visibility for events through customisation uniformity. By identifying this gap in the market solution we’ve been able to provide quality and affordable lanyards that create a high value experiences for our clients and foster organisation professionalism, whilst solving the needs of smaller businesses, events and enterprises being able to access the same high quality for their lanyards as larger businesses.”
Nina Cook
“I attended Hackathons, numerous Skill-up sessions, helped run Vintage clothing sales in The Cube (a retail space in the LSU), and networked like there was no tomorrow. I loved widening my business knowledge, having studied it at A-Level, and hearing advice from the professionals was both inspirational and useful. I was runway manager for the Sustainable Fashion show; helped grow social media for local greengrocer “Fresh today” as part of the Switch on Stand out programme; and worked with a group of Design and Business students to develop a business idea for the Ford Philanthropy Smart Mobility Challenge focused on developing sustainable mobility solutions that benefit the community. Going into my second year I hope I can identify that million dollar idea and stop being such a couch-preneur!”