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Student financing app is nice little earner for creators

November 8, 2017 19:00
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An app designed to help cash-strapped students support themselves has scooped a £35,000 "pitch award" for its creators.

Joseph Black and Oliver Jacobs, both 21, and former pupils oft Aldenham School in Elstree, launched UniDosh last month.

Downloaded more than 3,000 times so far, the app enables students to buy and sell services to their peers. Services can include cleaning, music lessons, language tutoring, CV writing and transportation.

The scheme, currently only operational in Manchester, won a pitching event run by Accelerate Places, a company providing co-working office spaces.