Natwest - Student Startup Competition and Ongoing Development Support

This is a funding opportunity from Natwest. There is no public call. Natwest reached out to us and asked us to apply for this funding which is to help increase start ups and enterprize for students. We would use the grant to build on our existing student enterprize programme. Hatty at RBI has worked with Bev Herring, head of careers on the application. Bev will oversee, and Alexander Hubbard will be the project lead. Natwest will not fund staff time, but Bev Herring has confirmed that Alex will be working on the programme anyway (whether or not we are awarded the funding), so the funding is incremental and will help us scale our impact and reach more students. We have reviewed an EoI with Natwest and they've given positive feedback and recommended we go ahead and apply. The paper form is attached.