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Vision to Reality is your chance to win a scholarship at the prestigious Cass Business School.

The scholarships are for the New Venture Creation course and they will be awarded on merit following an application process.

The New Venture Creation Programme is designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs. As such, it is a serious and intensive programme.

Candidates will learn all the essential lessons, including how to:

  • Identify ideas that offer the potential to grow a scalable business
  • Evaluate opportunities, analyse the competition and minimise risk
  • Develop a business model that generates strong revenue streams
  • Make the investment deals that offer the best potential and understand the ways in which investment deals work
  • Structure shareholder agreements

There will also be numerous opportunities to interact with successful entrepreneurs who are there to share their experience and advice. Towards the end of the programme, attendees will pitch their idea to the investment community and gain feedback from some of the toughest, but most insightful, judges around.

The New Venture Creation course will take place 3rd - 7th June and will be fully sponsored, for two lucky winners, by Towergate Partnership. The company's Executive Chairman is the award-winning entrepreneur Peter Cullum.

An alumnus of the Cass Business School, Peter was the 2005 overall winner of the Ernst & Young UK Entrepreneur of the Year award and is the current holder of the M&A Deal Maker of the Year. In 2008, Peter was also named Management Today's Entrepreneur of the Year.

Peter has decided to pass on the baton of entrepreneurialism and he recently offered to provide two places for any member business's aspiring entrepreneurs. The offer was gratefully accepted on behalf of the FSB by Sandy Harris, Chairman of Member Services.

The closing date for entries is Friday 16th April.