Incubating and Hatching Your Entrepreneurial Ambitions
The Winchester Hatchery offers students at the University of Winchester a dedicated space to work from while developing their start-up business dreams! Access to the hatchery is competitive and places are awarded to students who deliver viable business start-up ideas at pitching events held at the Business School. Members of the hatchery will be provided with a real-world business mentor to support the development of their start-up, alongside being enrolled on a fast-paced intensive business start-up acceleration programme! There is also even a chance to win start-up seed funding! This is completely free of charge for staff and students at The University of Winchester.
Step 1
Register your interest in starting your business!
Step 2
Pitch your business start-up idea to our panel of business leaders
Step 3
Move into the hatchery space and start your journey with a mentor
Step 4
Accelerate and launch your business start-up into the world!
Start Your Journey Now
Let us know you are interested by signing up, join the next pitching event, pitch your idea and win your place in the Hatchery!
The Hatchery Space @ Winchester Business School
Check out the Winchester Hatchery space, which offers a dedicated space for students and staff looking to develop their own start-up business dreams!
Our Business Mentors
All of our mentors are leading local business figures.
Serial Entrepreneur
Steve Northam
Founder & CEO
Finance Director
Joanne Brinton
Vitality
Founder & CEO
Nella Pang
OmegaRE
Chief Executive Officer
George Scott-Welsh
IncuHive
Entreprenuer
Julian Gee
Marketing Guru
Business Builder
Beverley Poole
Aspire4Business
Business Mentor
Tim Brock
Federation for Small Business
Founder & CEO
Sam Pieperhoff
BarBox
Coming Soon
Barry Sacks
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Alana Penkethman
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Business Mentor
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Stephen Carter
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Alumni Student Mentoring Team
Meet the Alumni Student Mentoring Team - these are all ex-students from The University of Winchester who are now running their own successful businesses! they are on hand to answer questions and give insight into their own experiences going from student to start-up business owner and beyond.
Founder & CEO
Tony Edwards
bitsmart.tech
Founder & CEO
Mag Lepkowska
Mag's Media
Founder & CEO
Will Cuthell
Crush
Managing Director
Josh Mitchell
Mitchell & Stones
Owner & Designer
Laura Fisher
Laura Fisher Ltd
Founder & CEO
Jake Hawkins
The RedRed Video
Winchester Enterprise & Careers Team
Staff at the University who help support enterprise and your future career aspirations!
Enterprise Officer
Josh Wood
The University of Winchester
Start-up Support
Providing a range of business start-up support services to ensure the best chance of success with your start-up idea!
Business Mentoring
Providing real-world business mentors to support your start-up with experience, networks and someone who has "been there and done it".
Investment
Providing seed investment to help support the development and launch of your business start-up idea, without debt or equity - all free or charge!
Events & Networking
Providing a range of exciting and innovative networking and business start-up pitching events to support your start-up journey!
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