• Business and Enterprise Workshops
Throughout the course of the academic year, beepurple brings you a range of extra-curricular workshops to help you develop your enterprise skills and entrepreneurial thinking. At each session, you’ll meet a range of like-minded people and have the opportunity to talk to recent graduates who have taken the leap and set up businesses or charities since leaving university.  More established, local, entrepreneurs also come in to share their advice and business experiences (both good and bad!).
The beepurple team also delivers a number of one-off, course specific, enterprise and entrepreneurship workshops when requested by academic staff, in line with Aim Three of the university’s corporate plan. Subject specific workshops are also available on request, and topics like intellectual property rights have been requested numerous times, by students on a variety of design-related courses.

• One-to-one Business Support
Not sure if your idea has any legs? Need to get a fresh approach on how you’re managing your business, or uncertain as to how to advance things to the next step? Whatever stage of development you are at, the beepurple team is able to meet up on a one-to-one basis with you to offer support and advice to help you develop and move your ideas forward and discuss any issues you may currently be facing.

• Vision (monthly e-zine)
Beepurple’s monthly newsletter highlights internal and external events of interest, features the success stories of beepurple members and also contains a series of articles on important inventions that have revolutionised modern day life. Students are more than welcome to write relevant articles for the e-zine – just contact us if you have an idea for a story you’d like to cover.

• Ultraviolet (Intensive summer start up school) 
Directly after the last week of the summer term, beepurple organises a week’s worth of intensive training aimed at students just finishing their degrees and hoping to gain practical skills to aid them in their graduate jobs and in setting up their own ventures – as a self-employed individual, a business, a social enterprise or a charity. Please see uv summer course for further details. Please see uv summer course for further details.

• Beepurple Champion Scheme (volunteering scheme)
This is your chance to get involved with the beepurple project on a voluntary basis and have the opportunity to develop key project management skills by running a small project of your choice (with some guidelines set by us) benefiting the beepurple programme as a whole.
If you don’t have your own project, we have a few ourselves and would also like to find a group of students from each campus to run a series of enterprise-related events at their own site during the academic year.

• Research and Innovation Awards (Ideas competition) 
Just under 200 people from the local business community joined us in June to help celebrate the winners of the university’s annual competition to reward staff and students’ business and research ideas. Previous winners of the competition have gone on to win further national awards, and secure grant funding from the National Lottery.
Look out for posters around the university in early spring each year for your chance to enter the competition and potentially win £2000!  You can also check out these pages for more details on current or past winners.

• Challenges
We feel the best way to learn anything, is simply to just do it. Beepurple aims to provide a number of opportunities to put your skills to the test, by running elevator pitch competitions, a series of fundraising tasks for local charities and student societies and we’ve also had members brainstorming solutions to two local businesses, who were struggling with a certain aspect of their organisations.