BA Fashion Design and Development student, Ashwini Deshpande recently won the Mayors Enterprise award in the ‘Creative Industries’ category for “Art-Z” - her highly innovative software business that uses machine learning to reduce the amount of fabric wastage in the fashion industry. Ashwini also won the LCF Enterprise Challenge earlier this year, receiving support from LCF’s Graduate Futures team to prepare for both competitions, where she received funding amounting to £27k to develop her business. Ashwini said of the support
“The LCF Graduate Futures Team has consistently supported me on my entrepreneurial journey over the last year and a half, from advising me on everything from partnerships, to giving me legal information. They always help me believe in myself, which helps me compete and move forward!”
This is one of many examples where Graduate Futures have supported the entrepreneurial ambitions of our students and they can also support with you careers knowledge and professional development.
Graduate Futures webinar series: January - March 2021
LCF Graduate Futures have a new series of online webinars and workshops to support your career, freelancer and business start-up ambitions. This term you can sign up for the following sessions;
January
Business modelling for start-ups and freelancers - 20 January
New Year: Goal setting and action planning - 22 January
Practitioner in Residence tutorials (for Postgraduate students only) - 26 January - 3 February
Careers in Fashion: Fashion technology with FIA and STITCH3D - 26 January
February
Team working and collaboration - 3 February
LCF Enterprise Challenge Launch - 4 February
Starting a business virtual bootcamp - every Saturday from 6 - 27 February
Finance Matters: How to build your finance plan - 17 February
Practitioner in Residence tutorials (for Postgraduate students only) - 22-25 February
Careers in Fashion: Diversity in the workplace - 23 February
Sales and marketing - 24 February
March
Research and professional pathways webinar for Postgraduate students - 1 March
Pitching to win - 3 March
Venture Crawl - 10 March
Branding and value creation - 10 march
Video mock interview application - 15 March
How to implement a circular fashion model - 16 March
Social enterprise: The science of crowd funding - 17 March
Practitioner in Residence tutorials - (for Postgraduate students only) - 25-31 March
UAL Creative Hack - 29 March
Careers in Fashion: Alumni journeys - 30 March
See what else is happening at LCF on our What's on page - including LCF Archive workshops and industry talks and much more.