It's the last week to enter the Mayor's Entrepreneur competition

We’re in the final week before the deadline for this year’s Mayor’s Entrepreneur competition but you still have until midnight on Sunday 18 April to get your idea or ideas submitted through the online application form.

If you need some help with filling in your application form come along to our last Application Tips Workshop on 13 April 16:00 BST.

In case you missed them you can also access recordings of our training sessions and interviews and tips from our past winners on the Mayor's Entrepreneur YouTube channel.

The competition

It asks London’s students to come up with viable, sustainable business ideas, and aims to create growth that makes London cleaner, greener and ready for the future; and, to ensure students see entrepreneurship as a viable career path and get the skills they need to succeed.

This year there are 5 awards with each of the winners receiving £20k to start up their business along with expert mentoring from staff at City Hall to get their idea to market.

More information about the 4 Award categories can be found on the website.

Good luck - we hope to see you progress through the competition!

Keep an eye on the Mayor's Entrepreneur Facebook group, Interns Instagram feed and the website for other events.

My name is Ayan Samatar and I'm in my final year studying Chemical Engineering.

Mayor's Entrepreneur is a competition where students come up with viable, sustainable business ideas to make a London a better and safer city.

It offers opportunities about:
- Developing business-related practical skills
- Attending workshops to engage with professionals
- Networking with students from other prestigious Universities
- Bringing ideas to life to address the challenges facing London today
- Winning £20k for the innovative proposal
- Kicking-off one’s career

Each year there are free pre-applications and post-application workshops for students.

My advice would be come up with an original idea: What makes your idea new for London? How is it better and smarter than what's already out there?

This is free to participate and open to all students at Greenwich.  The next winner needs to be from Greenwich! So fill in the application form!

Ayan, Faculty Officer and intern for the Mayor's Entrepreneur Programme by the Greater London Authority.