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Keep up to date at www.iod.com/westmids and at www.iod.com/east-midlands Student Mentoring programmes IoD East Midlands Enterprise Challenge with Nottingham Trent University Fundraising Five take the prize – but you’ve got to admire the S’morish by Tasha MacGilbert IoD East Midlands is celebrating another successful Enterprise Challenge, held in conjunction with Nottingham Trent University. The IoD Enterprise Challenge is an extension of the IoD’s annual £10 and £10+ challenges. This year’s challenge involved 170 students from Nottingham Trent University and 38 IoD volunteer mentors. Students were placed into groups of five and assigned an IoD mentor to help them with their ideas and challenges. Each group was encouraged to pitch for £10-£50 initial seed money to be used for implementing their idea and returning a profit on their initial investment. The total profit raised by the teams was then donated to the John van Geest Cancer Research Centre (JvG) based in Nottingham. The students came up with a wide variety of ideas, ranging from virtual pubs, raffles, fundraisers, customised face masks, cards against students, key ring hand gels, smore kits, biodegradable glitter, Ocean (Nottingham night club) themed merchandise, and much more! Amount raised The Challenge ran for 10 weeks, ending with a virtual celebration event on 4th May. The total amount raised by IoD student members, supported by their IoD mentors, was an amazing £7,205! This was a truly phenomenal effort when you consider that many of the avenues previous £10 Challenges and Enterprise Challenges had gone down to raise funds were closed to this group of students by coronavirus restrictions. As a result the teams had to be even more inventive with their fund-raising ideas, and we are extremely proud of all of them for their hard work! Winning groups n Most money raised: The Fundraising Five – £1127! n Most unique idea: S’morish This group gathered together the ingredients for ‘Smores’ and then sold the boxes around Nottingham. n Best social media campaign: Cards Against Students This group came up with a card and drinking game and made really effective use of Instagram and Twitter, making use of the hashtags to create awareness. Want to get involved as a mentor? Email cari.grice @iod.com n Best reflective video: Calm Candles – Calm Candles made a simple but effective video, showcasing the product and using aesthetic techniques. On behalf of Cari, Tasha and Ron, we wanted to say a massive thanks to Emma Hicks and Joe Fitzsimons who were mentors on the challenge this year. Emma’s team was judged to have had the best social media campaign and both groups performed really well in raising lots of money. Where does the money raised go? Making a Difference All the money raised by the IoD/NTU Enterprise Challenge goes to the John van Geest Cancer Research Centre (JvG) based in Nottingham. JvG is a unique purpose-built scientific facility in the East Midlands. Its aim is to save lives and speed recovery by improving the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. It opened in 2010 and has been at the forefront of: n Improving the diagnosis and management of breast and prostate cancers n Developing effective vaccines and immunotherapies that will significantly improve the survival rates and quality of life for cancer sufferers The research relies solely on donations, and as their overheads are covered by Nottingham Trent University, 100 per cent of donations go to life-saving cancer research. To find out more, see https://www.ntu.ac.uk/m/van-geest Pictured left, Not this year, sadly, we’ll meet again soon: the scene as our IoD mentors met their mentees for 2019’s Challenges 10 www.iod.com/emidlandsevents
IoD West Midlands Student Mentoring with the University of Wolverhampton Zoom celebration caps our mentoring year John Phillips, MBE FIoD On May 24, 2021, a virtual celebration event was held for all the mentors and student mentees who have taken part in the IoD /University of Wolverhampton Student Mentor Programme this academic year. Students have again been working on a one-to-one basis with directors from the region, as their mentors, to gain support developing their CVs, interview skills and those all-important soft skills which are vital in underpinning academic knowledge. IoD member Peter Shergold shared his “lessons in leadership” with stories from his military career as a Major in the British Army and his current role with St John’s Ambulance, including recruiting 30,500 people to carry out vaccinations during the UK’s pandemic. He also touched on his new role as a director with the UK Health Security Agency. Students and mentors shared their mentoring success stories at this event, including celebrating the achievements of those who had secured graduate jobs despite the challenges of the pandemic, getting into hard-to-gain specialist roles and developing fantastic networks for the future. All concerned received a combined University and IoD certificate to mark their participation in the mentoring scheme, a moment which capped off what was a wonderful afternoon for all. This is the 11th year the IoD has been running this scheme for final year business students. If you’d like to know more about the IoD Student Mentoring Programme, please see this link: https://www.wlv.ac.uk/schools-andinstitutes/faculty-of-arts-business-andsocial-sciences/university-ofwolverhampton-business-school/ employability-and-placement/ mentoring/ • I am pleased to say Peter Shergold will be talking again to IoD members locally at a joint event with CIMA on September 28 regarding his life experiences and in particular the British Army’s model of leadership. Entitled ‘Lead to Serve’, this is an event I would strongly recommend as Peter is a wonderful speaker. Left, the Zoom meeting with some of the mentors and mentees www.iod.com/westmids/events 11
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