Business Enterprise KEF

Looking to Set – Up Business

Are you a new business start-up seeking funding to help get your business off the ground? Merthyr Tydfil College’s Head of Enterprise, Chris Bissex, administers a Knowledge Exploitation Fund (KEF) Scholarship scheme that, if attained, would give you £144 a week for 36 weeks while you set up your business. To be eligible the business cannot have been running for more than six months, you have to possess an NVQ 3 or equivalent achieved in the past 3 years (we do offer an NVQ 3 Business Start up course for those not eligible).

Interested?
Call Chris on 01685 726175 or Email

Merthyr College has been extremely successful in gaining KEF Entrepreneurship scholarships, 112 to date, more than any other college or University in Wales. Almost half of these have been people from the Merthyr area. One person successful in achieving the scholarship is Morgan Howells. His business is Inuk Networks. Morgan said “I’m proud that we are pioneers in a new market – we deliver multi-channelled television over fast internet to students who don’t have access to satellite or cable. The next stage is to roll this out to consumers to watch multi-channel TV free over their internet connection.”

“The KEF scholarship was tremendous – there were points when it was the only source of income for my family, and it kept us alive, paying for food, nappies and essential bills. Alternatively please visit The University of Glamorgan Corporate Services area! for other Solutions.