Queen Mary’s entrepreneurial culture extends beyond its spinouts and business partnerships, with an improved and thriving student enterprise.
Queen Mary has a long record of supporting its students with their business endeavours. Through our Careers and Enterprise service, Queen Mary runs several programmes and sources of funding to aid entrepreneurs in getting their idea off the ground and turn it into a thriving business. Past successes include 'Too Good to Go', a social enterprise that enables restaurants with unused food at the end of the day to sell it to customers at a reduced price.
To get involved or find out more, you can contact Careers and Enterprise.
The QMentoring programme provides employer mentoring for students from low-income backgrounds, typically from local communities. In 2022 QMentoring was a finalist for a National Undergraduate Employability Award.
The benefits for those involved in the programme range from gaining insight into a profession and exploring potential career paths to building their professional network and learning new skills.
QMentoring
Through its careers and enterprise team, Queen Mary supports students to start something new. Students like Maryam Jebara, a graduate of Sustainable Energy Systems and founder of clothing brand MTHLoyalty.
MTHLoyalty is a sustainable clothing brand where art and science come together, that is not only about offering environmentally friendly and socially responsible products, but also informing and inspiring a global community to embrace more sustainable lifestyles.
Empowering graduate start-ups
Queen Mary’s dedicated careers and enterprise team is committed to supporting all students who are interested in launching their own start-ups and businesses. They offer advice and hold regular events, including a bespoke entrepreneurial retreat for female students who launched a start-up.
The retreat aimed to teach students how to scale up a business and make it sustainable, all while avoiding burnout. It gave attendees the opportunity to network with each other, local entrepreneurs and wellbeing experts, and provide gave them the chance to share their experiences and knowledge.
The event was tailored to provide knowledge on specific areas students had wanted more information on – including how to collaborate, scale up their ventures, and be part of a wider network.
Find out more about the Careers and Enterprise team