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Our Programmes
- Schools & Colleges Business Challenge
- Cyber Security Skills Bootcamp
- Understand Sustainability & Social Impact for Startups
- Early stage start-ups
- Hidden Talent
“Preparing young people with the skills and mind-set that companies of tomorrow require is what we should be doing today”
- This is a 5 week challenge to create a business idea and present it at a secret location to a special audience.
- You will learn the modern day skills, mindset and collaboration required to start a business of tomorrow.
- Each week we will meet up and continue to develop your business idea in small teams before revealing a secret location where you can invite friends and family to attend.
- You might even find an investor so be ready to know what you want!
Vanessa’s Story
Vanessa is 17 years old and is studying art and English at college. She wants to meet new people, follow her passions and be ready for her next steps into University or work.
Vanessa is still unsure what she wants to do as a career, buy enjoys being creative and capturing her own images with the family digital camera.
Vanessa saw an opportunity to experience something different, could bring her together with new people and learn valuable skills.
Vanessa, Ryan and Mia created a team to take on the Startup Street Business Challenge. Ryan was studying business and English , while Mia is studying maths and science.
Over the five weeks of Startup Street they developed the idea of Vanessa’s photography brand, alongside a social media strategy and the basics of a business plan. They decided to concentrate on restaurants and cafes as there was plenty in the local area who used high quality food images.
They have been sharing ideas, stories and potential ways to present the idea with their friends and other students.
The secret location was revealed and the three budding entrepreneurs (Vanessa, Ryan and Mia) had prepared to reveal their business idea and plan.
The collaboration of their different backgrounds, studies and ideas had created a new adventure and experience based around starting a business.
They invited 3 of the restaurants to the event that had helped with some of their research.
One of the restaurants has actually taken them on for a trial.
Vanessa, Ryan and Mia now have their own WhatsApp group where they share ideas for the business.
They experienced some real business challenges, how to fail successfully, build resilience and collaborate
They completed some real business tasks through the skills they had learned and have a clear indication of how these can be used for the next part of their careers.
The 2 hours a week spent during the programme ended up being almost 25 hours in total between the three new friends.
Vanessa can clearly see how the passions she currently has can be turned into a business idea.
She also took mum and dad for a meal at the new restaurant that uses her images. She managed to get a discount!
“Protect Your Business. Secure Your Future”
A practical 4-week bootcamp designed for self-employed individuals, freelancers, and small business owners who want to strengthen their digital resilience and protect their business from cyber threats.
We also help you use these new skills to improve and promote your business – from smarter marketing to working more efficiently and building customer trust. This Skills Bootcamp is fully funded by Brighton & Hove City Council through the government’s Skills for Life programme. That means there’s no cost to you – just a great opportunity to build your skills, confidence, and business.
What You’ll Learn
Our hands-on, jargon-free bootcamp helps you:
- Understand common cyber threats and how to avoid them
- Protect customer data and stay GDPR compliant
- Build a basic Cyber Security policy for your business
- Recognise and respond to phishing, scams, and malware
- Work towards industry-recognised certification
You’ll also build your business with practical skills like:
- Identifying ways to grow your business and reach more customers
- Creating a customer data policy that builds trust and improves marketing
- Identifying ways to grow your business and reach more customers
Who It’s For?
This bootcamp is ideal for people who are running or starting their own business and want to stay safe online, improve their operations, and boost their professional image — even if they aren’t “techy.”
- Leila, a freelance graphic designer who handles client files and wants to protect her laptop and emails from attacks.
- Tony, who runs a small logistics company with a few staff and wants to reduce risk, protect customer details, and attract new contracts by showing he’s a secure and professional business.
- Nadia, a health & wellness coach who collects personal info from clients during consultations and wants to ensure data is stored securely, customers feel confident, and her business runs more professionally.
Why It Matters
In 2024, 32% of small businesses in the UK reported a cyber attack. Most could have been prevented with basic tools and knowledge.
Cyber security isn’t just about protection — it’s about positioning your business as trustworthy, professional, and ready to grow. We’ll help you get there, step by step
Programme Details
- 4 weeks, 2–3 sessions per week (in-person)
- Delivered in Brighton at Barclays Eagle Labs & Plus X Innovation
- Includes practical toolkits, templates, and expert-led sessions
- Build a personalised cyber plan and business improvement toolkit
- Ongoing support and access to a peer learning network
Want to Join or Know More?
Email us at carl@startupstreet.co.uk.
Cybility are the Cyber Security partners for Startup Streets Bootcamps.
Cybility – We are on a mission to empower charity leaders to enhance their cybersecurity defences through active awareness and proactive measures, orchestrating a resilient organisation.
Whilst cybersecurity is a critical issue; we believe that it doesn’t have to be boring. We infuse a touch of playfulness into everything we do, ensuring our work is music to your ears and the tickets are affordable!
The biggest topic for all businesses for the next decade, whether they are ready for it or not, will be sustainability. The size and significance of the changes required to how we do business in order to fundamentally impact climate change are so huge that it will be impossible to ignore.
It will be an essential conversation and part of every business strategy going forward. Whether businesses want to, they will be moved to sustainable business practices by customer demand, either consumer pressure, or by business customers requiring some kind of sustainability commitment in order to agree a way forward.
It is therefore critical that startups or people with an idea are equipped for the challenges sustainability brings to businesses.
Startup Street has created a series of programmes that helps you understand:
- The key challenges to sustainability for individuals and start-ups
- Top tips for making an immediate impact
- Measuring our carbon emissions
- Communicating what we do to our customers/potential customers
- Creating an Environmental Management Strategy
- How can we be part of the Circular Economy
- What difference we can make through social impact
- Creating plans for sustainability and social impact that align to business goals
Get in contact and start making a difference now.
Your customers are expecting you to!
Startup Street Entrepreneur Programme
This is an opportunity to learn about the early stages of creating your business idea and testing how it can work. It’s difficult to know what to prioritise, where to start and have a plan in place so our focus is on you as the person and your idea.
This programme will provide you with:
- A business plan
- How to get your first customer
- Assessing your capacity to start a business
- Build your early skills and knowledge of starting a business
- A collaborative and innovative environment alongside other startups on the same journey.
Who is it for?
- People with a business idea to explore if it could work
- Additional support for people who have started to trade
- People wishing to turn hobbies or passions into cash
- People who wish to gain the skills/mindset to start a business or work for a startup
Debbie’s Story
Debbie has been sharing her love of upcycling furniture with friends and family for a few years. She really enjoys giving furniture a new lease of life and making people feel happy.
It is taking more of her time and she wanted to see if this could be something that earns her an extra income, but didnt how to plan it out and what steps to do first.
Debbie signed up to the evening classes of ‘The First 90 Days of your Startup’ and learned about the key steps she needed to achieve and the plans to achieve them.
It also provided easy to understand workshops to help develop her plans and also develop herself as an entrepreneur.
She achieved her goal of 4 paying customers, a social media presence, business plan and focusing on the key tasks to help her launch.
