A FREE programme helping graduates become entrepreneurs is being offered.

The Gleam programme (Graduate Learning of Entrepreneurship Accelerated through Mentoring) is offering a six-month programme taking graduates to business start-up.

There are 12 places available at Durham Business School. The programme is delivered by mentors who have turned business ideas into enterprises.

Applicants must have a business idea and have graduated from a degree or equivalent course in the past three years.

For details and an application form, visit www.gleam.org.uk, or contact Esther Broughton on 0191-334 5725.