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Marketing Hackathon

Date: Thursday 23 April 2026

Time: 2pm to 5pm

Venue: Waldegrave Suite, St Mary's University

At the Business Clinic Marketing Hackathon, participants gain new ideas, insights, and perspectives on business and marketing, whether a business owner or a business student.

This exciting event will be team-based, with teams having a mix of students and business representatives. Teams will work together on real-life challenges facing local businesses, to come up with new solutions and innovative ideas, mentored by St Mary's business and marketing academics. The best ideas will win Amazon vouchers.

For students, this is an amazing opportunity to gain experience of real life business and marketing scenarios, develop business awareness and problem-solving skills, and make valuable connections.

Local business participating have the chance to spend the afternoon working in a small team with business students, mentored by business school experts. The focus will be on tackling real-world marketing or communication challenges, generating innovative ideas and actionable insights.

How to book

For anyone interested in recommending the event to a local business, please email Matt Dennis-Morrell on matthew.dennis-morrell@stmarys.ac.uk.

This is an event hosted and organised by the St Mary's University Business Clinic.

Media enquiries

For media enquiries, please contact:

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020 8240 8262