What is BSEEN?
Birmingham Skills for Enterprise and Employability Network
BSEEN offers students and graduates a great package of intensive start-up support for new ventures. Successful participants benefit from a variety of workshops, networking opportunities, tailored mentoring, grants, and workspace at one of our partner universities.
Why Choose BSEEN?
Stand out in business, start it in Birmingham
Bootcamp
Each BSEEN intake starts with an intensive 5 day bootcamp to introduce and hone business skills.
Mentoring
Our mentors are on hand to offer advice and guidance based on their own extensive business experience.
Office Space
Get free workspace and network at Innovation Birmingham Campus or one of our partner institutions.
Grants
Kick-start your business with a grant to help you cover start-up costs and get your idea off the ground.
Kick-start your business idea
For Students & Graduates
The support you need to get your business off the ground
If you have ambitions to be a founder of a successful and innovative company, BSEEN can help you to gain the experience and skills needed to make your business a global success. You can access tailored workshops, grants to fund your business in the early days, free workspace, networking opportunities and more.
For Mentors
Help make big ideas a reality
Mentors are a vital part of the BSEEN programme. We’re always on the lookout for mentors who are keen to share their expertise and knowledge, inspiring and guiding fledgling business owners and giving them the confidence they need to make their idea a success.
“I had the skills for making an ambulance work and making cakes and just needed to fill in the business part which is what BSEEN really provided. Everything I needed for starting a business I got through BSEEN. The business support provided me with the confidence to go forward and the money helped that process.”
– James, The Cake Doctor
“I was really looking for help to gain the basic business skills that I need to run my business, which BSEEN have been very helpful with. I think I was a bit quieter about promoting myself at the beginning of the programme, whereas now I’m getting myself out there which is really good, and getting more customers in which is always amazing.”
– Sarah, And Dance Bespoke Dancewear
Latest News
What to expect from a BSEEN online bootcamp?
What did we do when lockdown meant we couldn’t get 35 entrepreneurs together in a room for our BSEEN startup bootcamp? We did what the rest of the country has been doing and moved it online! One challenge we faced was that with the best will in the world and no matter how brilliant our…
Entrepreneur of the Month: The Delicate Mind
Nikhwat Marawat is a Birmingham City University graduate, who started a business based on his life struggles. The Delicate Mind is now a charity which serves the BAME/ Muslim diaspora through their mental health work aiming to help others.
Entrepreneur of the Month: O’Driscoll Collective
Jamaal O’Driscoll is a Newman University graduate, who shares with us his story about his journey and passion in teaching, competing and performing in dance.
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