The Company of Entrepreneurs Trust grants thousands of pounds every year to individuals, organisations, and charities to advance academic and practical skills in business and entrepreneurship. 2025 looks set to be its biggest year of giving.
 
The deadline for applications for 2025 grants (payable from May next year) is 30th September 2024. This is particularly relevant to students entering Year 13 this autumn and considering enrolling on business studies courses at university in the Autumnn of 2025. Final year undergraduates looking to move on to relevant postgraduate programmes are also encouraged to apply.
 
Are you:
•    a school, college or university looking to provide bursaries/scholarships in business studies, or to provide extra-curricular entrepreneurship or business simulation classes?
•    a charity or other organisation that supports/promotes young enterprise, social enterprise, or other forms of early-stage businesses?
•    a promising student considering business studies at undergraduate or postgraduate level (e.g. MBA), but anxious about course fees or living costs?
 
If the answer is yes, then please click HERE for a straightforward online application form. Applications should be brief and clearly-defined – a simple outline of the applicant’s position and circumstances is all that is required to begin the process.
 
The Trustee Board conducts a paper sift in October, and more detailed information will be sought from longlisted candidates. Grants are payable from May 2025.
 
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NOTES: The Company of Entrepreneurs Trust is a grantmaking charity registered in England & Wales (1166513) that supports people, charities, organisations, and projects that support the development of entrepreneurs and help to bring the opportunities of entrepreneurship to young people. It has a specific object to support education – particularly education and vocational training in relation to the knowledge and skills required by entrepreneurs, and individuals wishing to become entrepreneurs.
 
The Company of Entrepreneurs Trust also supports an annual prize for businesses tackling societal or environmental challenges – the Entrepreneurs Award in Social Innovation (EASI). Details of EASI 2025 will be released later this year.

Fran Findlater OBE of No Going Back with the Chairman of the Trustee Board, Gary Dixon (L), and Master Entrepreneur, Mark Huxley (R)

 

Deryl Thatcher and Dirk Bischoff (L) of Hatch Enterprise with the Chairman of the Trustee Board, Gary Dixon (C), and Master Entrepreneur, Mark Huxley (R, blue and gold)