Aspect launch new Accelerator!

Aspect launch new Accelerator!

by | Jul 6, 2020 | Articles & Information, Blog & Case Studies, Business Basics, Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Exploring Opportunities, Funding & Competitions, Growing my Company, Personalised, Programmes & Events, Social Enterprise, Students

Aspect’s new flagship four-month social sciences student and alumni accelerator hosted by LSE to support and scale socially-responsible student and alumni ventures is now open for applications. Up to twenty UK selected university student and alumni enterprises, all of...
Head-to-head with Jessica Dillon at the Social Tech Trust

Head-to-head with Jessica Dillon at the Social Tech Trust

by | Mar 5, 2020 | Articles & Information, Blog & Case Studies, Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Exploring Opportunities, Funding & Competitions, People & Organisations, Science & Technology, Social Enterprise

Recently The Oxford Trust went head-to-head with Jessica Dillon, Marketing and Communications Manager at the Social Tech Trust, one of our newest residents at our central Oxford innovation centre, OCFI. Social Tech Trust’s purpose is “to transform lives with tech”,...
#StartedinOxford Demo Day

#StartedinOxford Demo Day

by | Mar 4, 2020 | Articles & Information, Blog & Case Studies, Business Basics, Consumer & Retail, Creative & Cultural, Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Education & Knowledge, Exploring Opportunities, Finance, Funding & Competitions, General, Growing my Company, Health & Wellbeing, IT & Digital, Oxford, People & Organisations, Personalised, Places & Spaces, Programmes & Events, Science & Technology, Social Enterprise

The #StartedinOxford Demo Day is a celebration and showcase of the Oxford-linked entrepreneurship community, and will be held online on Wednesday 18 November 2020.  This event will bring together exciting companies and ventures linked to the University of Oxford or...
Generation Medics wins big at Oxfordshire Business Success Awards

Generation Medics wins big at Oxfordshire Business Success Awards

by | Feb 24, 2020 | Articles & Information, Blog & Case Studies, Funding & Competitions, General, Growing my Company, Health & Wellbeing, Oxford, People & Organisations, Social Enterprise

Generation Medics, a social enterprise founded by NHS Doctors in Oxford, were delighted to be named the ‘Most Socially Minded Business’ at Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP) Business Success Awards. Trends show that the number of socially-driven...
Head-to-head with Low Carbon Hub

Head-to-head with Low Carbon Hub

by | Feb 20, 2020 | Articles & Information, Blog & Case Studies, Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Exploring Opportunities, Oxford, People & Organisations, Places & Spaces, Social Enterprise

The Oxford Trust went head-to-head with Barbara Hammond, founder and CEO of the Low Carbon Hub – a small social enterprise with big aims, now based at the Wood Centre for Innovation (WCFI). “Our vision,“ says Barbara, “is to replace the energy currently produced by...