 Hi, I'm Zainab Mehmoud. I'm the founder of Ahisla Stories for which I received £5,000 of funding through the Santander Seed Funding Competition and so our student enterprise. At Ahisla Stories, I curate events and media focused on South Asian sustainable fashion. With the mentoring support I've received, I've been able to fine-tune my deck and one of my mentors suggested that I do a survey to gauge interest in the one main event that I'm planning for October and the results that I got from that survey have been really helpful for again fine-tuning my deck and also just developing the event idea further and coming up with other aspects of my business that I hadn't thought of before. With the funding I've been able to commission an illustrator that I really like to design our logo and that's helped me come up with brand colours and overall envision the visual branding of Ahisla Stories better and also plan to set up my website and buy the website domains as well as website hosting, none of which I've done yet but I've done all the research and have been able to budget all of that with the funding that I've received. I've also been able to cover some of my time in terms of the labour that I'm putting into developing the social enterprise as well as travel expenses for my venue search for our first major event in October 2023 here in London. My tips for future applicants would be just to go for it and try to find a balance between trusting your gut and letting your values lead your work as well as taking on feedback from others so I've had a lot of friends and mentors look over my deck and brainstorm my ideas back and forth with me and although I take on a lot of the advice that they give and suggestions that they make I also know where I stand and what my values are and what I am and I'm not willing to compromise when I'm getting those suggestions and that advice so that would be my main tip is to know yourself and stick to your values but find that balance when you are getting a lot of feedback from others.