Now in its tenth year, Big Idea Challenge, London Met’s annual pitching competition came to a close yesterday with an awards evening hosted at The Wash Houses in Aldgate East.
The night was co-hosted by Antonio Hines, our 2018 Big Idea Grand Champion and the founder of U Teach Mi, and André Smith, the Community and Events manager at London Met’s Accelerator.
During the evenings proceedings we celebrated some of London Met’s most entrepreneurial students and graduates who had made it through to the finals.
We were delighted to hear from entrepreneur, barber to the stars and SliderCuts founder Mark Maciver, who gave an inspiring talk on his journey through the world of entrepreneurship and the power of networking to help achieve your goals in life.
And now, we’re pleased to announce all the winners of the 2023 Big Idea Challenge!
Our Grand Champion award went to Robbie Peter with Between the Lines.
Between The Lines is a ghost writing service for true crime stories. Their team of experienced writers will craft a gripping and compelling narrative that brings real-life events to life. Readers can get a sneak peek into the captivating story they’re about to dive into with video trailers. With Read Between The Lines, your true crime story will be a page-turner that readers won’t be able to put down.
Watch Between the Lines’ pitch video on our People’s Choice voting website.
Our category winners of London Met’s 2023 Big Idea Challenge were…
People’s Choice: Uttam Singh with Anti-Crime Cam
Commercial: Marharyta Kokri with IGT Global
Community & Environment: Robbie Peter with Between the Lines
Growth: Nadya Mamaeva with DecoFlowers
We are looking forward to continuing to support all of our Big Idea winners this year and have a range of further support programmes planned over the summer months, all designed to help them take the next steps for their business ideas.
The Schools and Colleges competition awards were announced and presented by our amazing colleagues Mandy Malcolm, Schools & Colleges Outreach Officer and Richard Fisher, Senior Outreach Officer.
The winners from the Big Idea Schools and Colleges competition were…
Grand Champion: No Tag – Newham College of Further Education
Runner Up: Fusion – Shooters Hill Sixth Form College
Runner Up: Sole-lution – New City College – Redbridge
People’s Choice: Quish – St Bernard’s Catholic Grammar School
We like to say a big congratulations to all of our 2023 Big Idea Challenge winners, finalists and everyone who took part this year. And thanks to our competition partners NatWest and Lucidica for supporting us in making the university and Schools and College Big Idea Challenge competitions such a success!