£300 Business start-up grants available

UCL students and recent graduates (within 1 year of graduation) can apply for £300 to register their business.

If you’ve formulated your business idea through a taught or extracurricular programme, but not yet committed to starting your business, this grant can help you with the next steps.

UCL students and recent graduates can apply for £300 to register their business and for other setup costs such as registering a domain name and creating a website.

To help you establish and grow your business, and become part of our entrepreneurial community, you can also apply to join our Hatchery incubation and acceleration programmes.

If your grant application is successful, you would be expected to apply to the Hatchery.

Who can apply

To apply you must:

• be a current UCL student or have graduated from UCL within the last 12 months
• have completed at least one of UCL’s entrepreneurship courses or modules in the last 12 months
• be legally allowed to register a company in England and Wales (if you're on a Tier 4 Student visa you are not allowed to do this)

The grant

The grant is a one-off payment of £300 per individual/team.

The grant must be claimed before 30 June 2024.

You must use the money to register your business with Companies House as a legal entity in England and Wales before 25 July 2024.

You must then send us, by email, the new entity's company number and link to it on the Companies House website by 31 July 2024.

You can spend any remaining money on other associated business expenses. For example, on building a website, designing business cards, marketing campaigns, etc.

How to apply

You must apply by midnight on 17 May 2024 via the application form.

If your application is successful, you’ll be notified by 31 May 2024.