Kick Start the Economy

Next Wednesday (6th May) from 6.15pm -9pm there is a really great event in London called "Kick Start the Economy" featuring the following speakers:

Tim Smit, founder of the Eden Project
Paul Myers, President of the World Fair Trade Organization
Safia Minney, founder and director of Fair Trade fashion brand People Tree
Albert Tucker, Independent Consultant and formerly of TWIN TRADING, a founding partner in Café Direct and Divine Chocolate

This is a great source of inspiration for environmentally and socially sustainable business ideas. Individual students as well as the university enterprising society members would benefit a lot from participating.

THE UNI WILL PAY FOR YOUR TICKET! Check out our facebook group and contact Marta for details:

SIFE Southampton are UK Rookie Champions!

SIFE Southampton are UK Rookie Champions!
This is fantastic news, and to explain exactly what this means then take a look at this note from the SIFE Southampton president, James Stewardson:

"In just 6 months SIFE Southampton have become National Rookie Champions and runners up in the Semi Finals.

If you dont know what this means, then listen up.

Our team has beaten 24 other Universities let alone the ones that don't even bother. We have four amazing local and international projects and we have four brand new exciting projects in the pipeline.

WE ARE GOING TO GERMANY, to represent the UK as rookie champions competing against German teams the day before the SIFE World Cup.




If you haven't already got involved then now is the time!!!

Next year we will be in the Finals.

Well done to everyone who has contributed to our Success and a massive thanks to Natalie Norton who started our team. We couldn't of done it without you."

SIFE Southampton into the semi-finals!

Well done to all at SIFE Southampton for getting straight into the semi-finals, bypassing the group stages!

Here is the SIFE Southampton team right before the big presentation... They do look pretty nervous =).