About Enactus Nottingham
We are a not-for-profit student run organisation from the University of Nottingham. Thank you to our sponsors, as well as Nottingham University Business School for their support. Keep up to date with us by liking our FB and Insta (@enactusnotts)
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Want to learn how to run real businesses? Want to make a real impact? Join us this February!
Enactus Nottingham is recruiting - roles are available via our website. Just sign up here: https://kwiksurveys.com/s/ZhQwiqK3
... Deadline to sign up is February 7th! 💛
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Member profile 💛
Name: Kate Clayson
Joined: October 2016
... Position: President
Degree: Management
Best experience: presenting at Nationals in my first year and then a day later travelling to Nepal as part of Bottle by Bottle! On the trip we met the woman and her family who we built our first bottle house for whose only question for us was “would tigers be able to get in?” !!!🇳🇵
Remembered for: saying Northampton was more south than Southampton. - I had a blonde moment oK.
Described in three words: motivator, funny, thoughtful - Charlotte Hurst
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Around the World Update #7
We've made it to Antarctica🐧🐧!! Thank you so much to those of you who have donated already. If you'd like to help us please follow the link to our fundraising page: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/a roundtheworld…
... Your money goes towards projects such as CodeX who teach coding to neuro-diverse children, aiming to increase their chances of employment, as well as to girls with the hope of reducing the gender gap in STEM subjects. This year they've gained a number of new contracts with schools and are hoping to continue to grow within the Nottingham community. To find out more about what they do check out their website!! https://www.codexenactus.co.uk/…
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Around the World update #6!!!
We've made it 8600 miles to Australia, the home of Enactus Curtin University 🇦🇺🇦🇺
Enactus Curtin have a fantastic project called Suited Up which aims to support disadvantaged people in getting into the workforce. Suited Up take lightly worn donated work wear and re-gifts it to beneficiaries for interviews. This is financed by selling other clothing, as well as re-purposing clothes that cannot be sold into sustainable tote bags. The project also p...rovides volunteer opportunities for job-seekers, providing them with valuable skills to use in future employment.
To find out more about the project, including the development of their new app as well as their other work, please check out their Facebook page.
Thank you so much to those of you who have already donated to our projects through Around the World. Our just giving page will be open till the end of January so please keep donating! https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/a roundtheworld…
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Around The World Update #5
We are in Indonesia! The members of Enactus Nottingham have travelled 7,470 miles. Indonesia is home to the YCAB Foundation, which is the founding and flagship organization in YCAB Social Enterprise Group which includes several for-profit entities that offer products and services to emerging consumers including mission-driven microfinance to low-income women entrepreneurs, conditional upon their child enrollment to school. Since 1999, their total d...irect outreach is 3,378,701 youths.
If you would like to find out more, check out their Facebook page! - YCAB Foundation.
Also, please consider donating to our justgiving page to support our social enteprises - https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/a roundtheworld….
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Happy Birthday Foodprint! 🥳🤩
Members, old and new, volunteers, supporters and beneficiaries came to our store to visit an entire year of operation❤️ We are so proud of the team for all their hard work over the past year 🎂
Around the world update #4
We’ve travelled 5731 miles to Brazil!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷
Brazil is home to the project IARA created by Enactus Cefet/RJ. This project aims to reduce the effects of poor sanitary conditions in local communities through technology installed in houses, providing easy access to clean, safe water.
... The first district they worked in was Suruí where most of the residents did not have accesss to the public water supply system. They have trained some of the residents to develop the technology and market and sell it to the community. This generates extra income and expands the reach of the project.
If you’d like to find out more about their work please visit their Facebook page!
Please also consider donating to our justgiving page to support our social enterprises!
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Our second member profile!! 😱
Name: Adam Kulpa Joined: October 2018 Position: CodeX Tech Team... Degree: Computer Science
Best experience in Enactus so far:
Apart from the training weekend where I met many many cool people, going to London to present about Enactus and university life to Harris Westminster Sixth Form was something completely new to me and I loved the excitement! It was also a free adventure 😊. P.S. While interviewing people for CodeX teaching roles I realised that being on the other side of the table feels great!
What would you like to be remembered for?
I’d like to be remembered for never turning down an opportunity if I can physically make it, or making the CodeX website, instead I will most likely be that guy that wears shorts regardless of weather 👀
Described in 3 words by a fellow team members: hardworking, kind, positive
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Today Amazon Skyped in with us to give us some talks on Amazon Web services, selling on amazon and the application process for internships and grad jobs 🎓 They also did a leadership session with the members which was great!
We look forward to seeing how the teams use this inspiration to integrate technology into their businesses 💻
Would you like to have an impact on the way your university is run and tackle some key sustainability challenges? Are you up for challenging yourself to come up with a feasible business plan in a time constraint? If so sign up to the Sustainability Hackathon now! £180 prize for the winning idea! 🌍💡
Sign up: https://kwiksurveys.com/s/k33lolcq#!/0
Around the world update #3
We’re in North Carolina!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
This week we made it to UNCP Enactus. UNCP have been doing some great work, including their recent Financial Literary Series in conjunction with Pembroke Housing and Authority Teenage Programme. This three week programme aims to increase the financial knowledge of young people and empower them to make sustainable financial decisions. To find out more about this and their other exciting projects, check out their Facebo...ok page!
Please consider supporting us on our journey around the world by donating to our Just Giving page. All proceeds go towards our social enterprises.
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/a roundtheworld…
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Today, some of our wonderful members went to the SDG Symposium to learn about the incredible work being done within Nottingham University Business School🍃🌍
Some of our members also got to present their projects, including SENSE Events, CodeX and SANkofa SANitation! 🎪💻 🚽
Around the World Update #2
We’ve made it to Assiut in Egypt 🇪🇬 Our members have travelled 2468 miles in 11 days!!
Assiut is the home of Enactus Assiut. We contacted them to find out a bit more about them and this is what the team had to say:
... We are glad that we are your second stop and we would happily contribute to your journey "Around the World".
As for our projects, we worked at Al-Ghanaiem village in Assiut, where we found Nabiha, a very talented woman with amazing wood crafting skills. However, she had a serious financial problem. We knew we could help. She may lack essential marketing skills but the opportunity to change Nabiha's life was there. And therefore we started project "Nabiha".
We contacted 7 traders that have an interest in what Nabiha crafts, making her able to sell more of her goods, know the needs of the market, and position herself among possible wooden crafts providers. Nabiha wasn't just gifted in making regular wooden crafts that the market needs, she also made astonishing work of arts with wood. And with that, we started an online marketing campaign that will expand her target audience and expand her business by providing an alternative good that she may sell. Nabiha now earns her living through her talent, passed her financial crisis, and sustaining a successful business.
How amazing! 💕
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Wow, what a big achievement! Our first Nottingham team has finally reached Africa 🌍 🇪🇬
We want to say a big well done to all the teams that took part this year, and a huge thank you to everyone that donated money to the teams; any money raised through The Great Escape Nottingham and other SENSE Events helps our social enterprises do the world of good❤️
Keep a lookout for the next #moremoneymeans post to see how much money was raised and where it will be going🤫
Our bike hire scheme is back in action!!
Around the World Update #1
We've made it to Rome!!! Our amazing members travelled 980 miles in our first 4 days!!
Rome is the home of @Enactus John Cabot University, the Enactus team that made it to World Cup this year with their incredible project 'Our Common Thread'.
... The project aims to support those in need by helping them pursue a job in tailoring through the refurbishment of second hand clothes which they collect from the university. They work with their partner, Comunità di Sant'Egidio, to fomally train their beneficiaries and generate revenue through selling on the clothes, creating sustainable employment, economic independance and tackling waste.
To find out more about their project please click on the link: http://enactusitaly.org/project/our-commo n-thread/
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We need your help!!!
Every year Ucycle sells out its selection of bikes, helping the environment and getting you guys from A to B. However, Ucycle won't be able to operate if they don't have use of the warehouse. In the past, this warehouse has also helped us run Re-covered, an upcycling furniture business - it really is key to helping Enactus Nottingham projects thrive.
So here's the issue - It's currently full of old furniture and bit and bobs that we need to get rid of. But we can't do this alone.... So in return for your manpower we're offering FREE PIZZA, music for you to get down and boogie to whilst you work, and the chance to take home ANY PIECE OF FURNITURE FOR FREE.
It's live!!!!
We've just launched our newest commercial venture: Around the World🌎
The 70 members of Enactus Nottingham will be collectively running, swimming, cycling, roller-blading, scooter-ing (you name it) the 24,091 miles around the globe in 80 days to raise money for our projects.
... If you'd like to sponsor us please click the link below and keep an eye on this page for our updates!
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/a roundtheworld…
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