SStartup Wins National Enterprise Award
SStartup, Reading University Entrepreneurs, has been named best new society at the NACUE National Enterprise Awards 2012.
SStartup aims to inspire, educate and support Reading students in business and enterprise. Launched in October 2011 they have run series of high quality events, which teach basic business skills and encourage business thinking. SStartup has also brought together a vast network of enterprise supporters and influencers from both the university and business to debate how the university can better educate its students to meet the demands of employers.
SStartup was honoured at the star-studded NACUE Society Awards from Gibson Hall, London on Saturday, April 5, 2012. The highest awards for UK enterprise societies, the NACUE Society Awards are an annual celebration, which bring together the most valued student enterprise supporters to celebrate and reward the very best achievements of enterprise societies and individual presidents within the national NACUE network. The best new society award is presented to a society that has developed and executed a successful series of events, developed an engaging brand and a clear strategy for growth. SStartup was also praised for it’s strategy for university and corporate engagement.
“For a society that is a year old, SStartup have excelled rapidly and demonstrated a fantastic understanding of what it takes to support student enterprise. The amount that they have achieved is inspiring from securing interest from key stakeholders to putting on well-run events such as their Apprentice Challenge and end of year networking event. I truly believe that SStartup are examples for other societies in the network to follow and sincerely hope they continue to build on successes of this year,” said Richard Kuti, Head of Network at NACUE.
“To win such a prestigious award, particularly with so many other amazing enterprise societies across the country, is a huge honour” said Oli Gibson, Founder of SStartup. “The team at SStartup have done a fantastic job this year and winning this award really highlights the importance of their work.”
