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Our fantastic Enterprise and
Entrepreneurship Programme was
named Business Innovation of the
Year at the Cirencester Chamber of
Commerce Business Awards 2016
(13 May) for its robust programme of
support for student entrepreneurs.
The Business Innovation of the Year
category recognised the company which
had developed a
new or improved
product, process,
or service, and
made a significant
difference to their
performance.
Our Enterprise and
Entrepreneurship
Programme
provides support
and mentoring
for enterprising
students,
who wish to
develop their business idea. The
programme will be further enhanced
with the opening of the new Trent
Lodge Enterprise Centre in summer
2016. This forms part of our Farm491
initiative to provide incubation facilities
for student businesses as they grow.
Katy Duke, Head of Enterprise at the
RAU, said: “We’re delighted to have
won Business Innovation of the Year at
the Cirencester Chamber of Commerce
Business Awards. It means a lot to have
our programme recognised by local
business people. The support of local
businesses means we can provide a
mentoring and workshop programme,
and for that we are truly grateful.”
Great British Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo with RAU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Chris Gaskell
Crowned
Business
Innovator
of the Year
Did you spot the RAU on BBC Two’s
Great British Railway
Journeys
earlier this year (January 2016)?
En route from Stroud to Bath, Michael Portillo alighted at
Kemble Station and dropped in to explore our historic campus.
He met with the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Chris Gaskell,
who spoke about the University’s prestigious history and the
significant impact of the railway on agriculture in the 1800s.
Michael Portillo then paid a visit to Harnhill Manor Farm to
find out more about modern agricultural practices. He spoke
with Farms Director, Tom Overbury, and former student Megan
Berryman, who graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Agriculture last
summer.
Great British Railway Journeys
is a BBC Two documentary in
which journalist and presenter Michael Portillo travels along
the rail networks of Great Britain and Ireland, with a 150-year
old copy of George Bradshaw’s Victorian railway guidebook.
It’s been a fantastic year for enterprise
so far. In March 2016, the RAU was
runner up in the entrepreneurship
category at The Guardian University
Awards 2016, and in April 2016, student
Theo Wasserberg was shortlisted for
Student Entrepreneur of the Year by
the National Association of College
and University Entrepreneurs, for
his clothing business Tahouts.
Katy Duke collects the
Business Innovation
of the Year award
Cirencester Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2016 winners and runners-up
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