Enterprise Marketing Scheme - Spring 2025
Part-time, funded marketing projects. Delivered by marketing students for student-led businesses.
Find out moreThe Enterprise Marketing Scheme (EMS) facilitates real-world collaboration and skill development between UoS student-led businesses and UoS marketing students.
Marketing students gain real-word experience delivering essential marketing projects for student-led businesses, addressing skill and resource gaps in early-stage businesses and accelerating their progress toward their business goals.
The Enterprise Marketing Scheme is generously supported by Santander.
Calling all UoS Student-led Businesses!
Apply for up to £2,000 of marketing support for your business.
Access essential marketing resource, expertise and advice from skilled marketing students.
At a minimum, eligible student-led businesses must be able to provide strong evidence of customer validation, ideally through paying customer traction.
Applications open 20 January 2025.
Applications close midnight, Sunday 9 February 2025.
Student-Businesses: APPLY NOWCalling all UoS Marketing
Students!
Apply for paid, part-time opportunities to build your real-world marketing experience.
Increase your future employability prospects: gain real-world marketing experience; develop marketing and client relationship skills; and build valuable credentials to include on your CV and LinkedIn profile.
Eligible marketing students are not required to have previous real-world business experience. However, at a minimum they must be able to provide evidence of personal drive, initiative and self-motivation, as well as a strong performance track record in their studies.
Applications close midnight, Sunday 23 February 2025.
Marketing-Students: APPLY NOW“Elizabete really helped us define our tone of voice and brand image, which is the foundation for the entire business going forward e.g Packaging, website, content creation and of course our marketing approach”
– Benj Hopcraft, Co-founder, The Ripped Bears (Protein Gummies)
“This experience has been amazing throughout as I got to apply all the skills that I had gathered online or from lectures and got to apply them in real-time situations for an actual company.”
– Elizabete Jeremejeva, UoS Marketing Student (Project: The Ripped Bear)
The Enterprise Marketing Scheme is designed to support a broad range of early-stage businesses and social enterprises. Student-led businesses can apply for either £1,000 or £2,000 worth of marketing support, that will be delivered by either one or two marketing students. Marketing students will receive £1,000 each in prize-funding towards their time and expenses, to support their delivery of an agreed scope of work for the selected businesses.
The expected time commitment per marketing student is estimated to be a minimum of 80 hours, across an 8-10 week period.
International students must ensure they work within their visa restrictions.
“Danicel gave me tips on my Instagram account and how make it look as professional as possible. She also performed a detailed review of my website, advising me on changes to enhance its appearance and ensure it portrays a luxury fashion brand, combined with my sustainability values, as well as recommendations on improved navigation. The detailed recommendations have been incredibly useful and I am still in the process of implementing all of the changes we discussed.”
– Caroline Streat, Founder of Caroline Lita (Luxury Fashion Brand)
“This experience allowed me to practice my marketing skills and knowledge in real time, and use this to help construct the strategy for a start-up business. The experience allowed me insight into the job I want in the future and opened my eyes to vital parts of the job. I was able to gain more experience of working closely with a client, being able to see the potential effects of my recommendations and having to use my research and judgement to provide recommendations to not only grow the business further but to help it grow in the future as well.”
– Danicel Purugganan, UoS Marketing Student (Project: Caroline Lita)
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SCHEME
We plan to run two cohorts for the Enterprise Marketing Scheme in 2025:
- Cohort 1: March – May 2025.
- Cohort 2: June – August 2025 (to be confirmed)
Key Dates Cohort 1:
- Business applications open: Monday 20 January
- Business applications close: Sunday 9 February
- Marketing Student applications open: Monday 26 January
- Marketing Student applications close: Sunday 23 February
- Matching sessions 3-7 March
- Projects kick off: WC 10 March
Applications for the Enterprise Marketing Scheme 2025 – Cohort 1 are now Open.
Student-Businesses: APPLY NOW Marketing-Students: APPLY NOW***We strongly recommend all those interested in applying read all the information about this scheme in full***
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SCHEME
If you have any questions or want to discuss your eligibility for the Enterprise Marketing Scheme you can Book a 1:1 Student Enterprise Appointment with a member of the Student Enterprise team.
We highly recommend you book a 1:1 appointment to increase your chances of success.
You can contact the Student Enterprise Team at studententerprise@soton.ac.uk.
