Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge 2013

Events in Hull are underway for Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 and young people are gearing up to pitch their business idea to former Apprentice star Ruth Badger. Young people from across the city entered the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge under three different categories. The competition had over 1,000 hits on the website www.hullbadgers.co.uk, which resulted in 100 enquiries, 50 entries and 16 projects that were shortlisted to 'pitch' to the judges.




The winners of each section will now get the opportunity to go on to double their winnings during Global Entrepreneurship Week on Thursday the 21st f November and Ruth Badger will be joined by Laura Booth of Wedgewelly, Jim Harris of St Stephens, Jamie Macaskill, Assistant Editor of Mail News & Media, Anna Millar of KC and last year winner Loui Fowler from Malet Lambert School







The winners were



Primary section Gillshill ( to further expand their gardening business) and Griffin ( to build a greenhouse from recycled bottles) Primaries who each won £250 for their ideas, third prize of £150 went to Victoria Dock Primary for their new healthy Tuck Shop



Secondary School Section was won by Harry Hopkin of Malet Lambert School for hid Hull Top Trips card game who won £500 and will be supported by engaging education to further develop the idea and Example from Newland School for Girls won £150 who will be supported by Young entrepreneur Year 2009 Amanda Hartley also the panel agreed to sponsor the Memorial Garden for teachers at St Marys College following Penny Lowe’s presentation.



The Post 16 section was won by Tom Arran for his photography business he won £800 and Liddell Personal came second and will receive £400 to further develop their branding in partnership with Jenko.



All the entrants had to present their idea to the first judging panel, made up of people from the public, private and community sectors. There were some fantastic entries, and many of them walked away with vouchers from the co-operative and or sponsorship deals and business opportunities.







Ruth Badger said:



"I love visiting Hull as it is an enterprising city and I really enjoy sharing my journey with budding young entrepreneurs who really want to make a difference in the business world and undertaking the final judging for the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge.



“I have very high hopes that this year’s shortlisted entries are as good as previous years building on the success of Bronwyn Wilson, the Gren Queens and Loui Fowler."



Ross Bennett Managing Director Engaging Education and Chair of Hull’s Young Entrepreneurs Network said



“We had some wonderful business ideas from all the different age ranges and all the young people from primary school or looking to set up in business were very inspirational, there is no doubt in my mind that Hull is leading the way in nurturing future entrepreneurial talent and all the winners will sell their ideas in a clear and enterprising way to Ruth Badger in Global Entrepreneurship Week.”

The City Plan and Enterprising Teachers

Hull faces some big issues and challenges – but now has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to regain its status as a dynamic and thriving European port-city.




The developing City Plan is about tackling these issues and seizing this opportunity. It’s about bringing the whole of Hull together to set out -

• a clear goal and ambitions for the city over the next 10 years

• what needs to happen, when it will be delivered and who’s involved

• how the lives and opportunities of local people will be improved as the plan is delivered

• what it will mean for the city as a whole and wider region



Therefore it has set up a group for education practitioners across Hull who want to ‘Be Enterprising’, to come together and share their fantastic ideas – inspiring our future generations and helping to embed the Big 13 Enterprise skills into all our young people’s lives and is supported by the Regeneration and Partnerships Team of Hull City Council. It is Chaired by Stephen Logan Assistant Headteacher of Malet Lambert School.

A key focus of this group is the promotion of The Big 13 - 13 enterprise entitlements devised to cover the spectrum of entrepreneurial skills through the curriculum that were developed with partners in Rotherham. The Big 13 are a range of enterprise skills and capabilities that are utilised during, and the outcome of, good quality enterprise learning. They were devised through the award winning enterprise education programme, Rotherham Ready, which now operates nationally as a not-for-profit social enterprise Ready Unlimited. A key part of the Ready Unlimited approach is to make learning about and applying enterprise capabilities part of children’s enterprise learning entitlement.

• Team Work

• Risk

• Negotiating and Influencing

• Effective Communication

• Creativity and Innovation

• Positive Attitude

• Initiative

• Organising and Planning

• Problem Solving

• Leadership

• Making Ethical Decisions

• Financial Literacy

• Product and Service Design

So far 135 Teacher have registered as members. Thee have been 2 meetings so far with 52 teachers attending. CPD session booked for January and March 2013. This is a group for enterprising teachers to develop their network of like minded people and also encourage an enterprise culture. It has also commissioned a DVD featuring 13 businesses and four schools showing how they use the Big 13 Enterprise Skills. The meetings saw teachers to start developing new curriculum materials linked to the Big 13 Enterprise Skills that will be shared across all educational phases also each teacher has been given £50 from the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank in order to make it grow within their schools with the profits split between the individual schools and the Be Enterprising group in order to commission new enterprise education materials linked to the City Plan.



The CPD sessions for 25 teachers each time will feature young entrepreneurs who set up whilst at school and young people from primary schools who have achieved the Warwick University National Standard in Enterprise Education in order to show how important is that teachers use the 13 enterprise skills in order to develop young people with a range of enterprise skills and want to be young entrepreneurs of the future as well as enterprising students and employees of the future.



8 secondary schools 48 primary schools and 3 special schools are members along with 4 training providers. In Hull 62 businesses and organisation support the enterprise skills agenda ranging from national companies such as the Co-operative to young entrepreneurs such as Thomas Arran Photography who has received support from the City’s youth enterprise bank which also supports enterprise within schools such as Loui Fowler and the Green Queens who are at Malet Lambert School.







www.beenterprisinghull.co.uk

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Hull - Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013

Hull City Council in partnership with Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership has organised a series of events, which will take place from 18 – 22 November 2013 to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs. Hull is putting its weight behind Global Entrepreneurship week a campaign run by the Kauffman Foundation and Youth Business International in order to show how enterprising its young people are. Every day in the UK people talk about making a change in their life and consider starting up a business. By connecting individuals to practical support and those who have done it already, Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 will help turn these exchanges into the businesses of tomorrow. Global Entrepreneurship Week is the world's largest celebration of innovation and enterprise, active in 150 countries across the world. Global Entrepreneurship Week inspires people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.




Although Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 has a grand sounding name, the reality of the week is that it's all about the small things, and as the small acorn develops into a mighty oak, so it hopes that the ideas and activities put on during the week for many young people in Hull will one day take root and go on to become something much bigger.



The week in Hull is sponsored by a number of small and large private, public and charitable organisations including Malet Lambert School, St. Stephens, Spencer Group, Hull Training, KC, Mail News & Media, The Co-operative, Sangwin Group, Cityworks UK, Jelf Insurance Partnership, Hull College and British Land and the week as a whole by Hull City Council.



Blair Jacobs Chair Hull Youth enterprise partnership, said:



"Global Entrepreneurship Week in Hull is always a huge success, and this year sees the tenth year has attracted over 50 organisations to support our enterprising young people.



"We believe that not everyone will become an entrepreneur, but everyone needs to be enterprising and you should start at a very young age, so this year there are two events dedicated to Hull's primary school pupils."



Chief Executive of Youth Business International, Andrew Devenport said:



"There is a great need to provide opportunities today that help entrepreneurs pursue their dreams and build the businesses of tomorrow. Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 is kick starting the conversations that are needed to make this happen. We are pleased that as a City Hull gives its full support to the campaign to enable its young people to celebrate "



“We hope this sets an aspirational agenda for today's young people in Hull and the Humber sub-region to set up their own businesses, start social enterprises to improve their communities and be innovative employees themselves."







Further Information



Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 in the city will drive five major events throughout the week for encouraging, improving and supporting entrepreneurship and enterprising behaviour.



On Monday, The Environmental Enterprise Challenge will involve 100 students from Malet Lambert School who will be given a secret brief. They will have to develop a product or service based around a set of instructions linked to the theme of the City's green economy and the City of Hull. Former BBC Apprentice star Ruth Badger will be awarding prizes as well as sharing thoughts on her own enterprise journey. The winning team will receive a special prize of £200 in vouchers courtesy of Straight plc



Tuesday is all about celebrating the Hull Ready programme, with presentations from primary school children about how they've spent their £150 loan from a business as part of the Make £5 Blossom project. This will be followed by the invited audience of education and business leaders being given their own entrepreneurial task to complete which will be set by the pupils from Victoria Dock Primary School.



On Wednesday, primary school pupils taking part in the "Hull Our City and the Mail at the Heart of it" event at the University of Hull will be practicing planning, promotion and delivery as they consider how they will handle an emerging news story in the city with the assistance of students from Hull College and reporters from the Hull Daily Mail. Watching closely and available to support young people on the day will be senior executives of Mail News & Media and former BBC Apprentice star Claire Young. The winning team will receive a special prize of vouchers of £400 from KWL and a special science event run by young entrepreneur Katie Norman of Labrascals



The Post 16 Enterprise Masterclass on Thursday will see Ruth Badger again heading up the judges who will be examining in detail the results of a group activity to come up with a marketing concept from everyday discarded items given to each group. The judges will decide who will walk off with a cash prize for best concept and pitch sponsored by Hull Chamber of Commerce



Bringing the week to a close on Friday is the Secondary Enterprise Masterclass, which will again see young people taking on the task of devising a convincing product and marketing concept set by Sangwin pitching it to Ruth Badger and fellow judges. The winning team will receive a special prize of £400 in vouchers courtesy of Hull Training and the opportunity to produce their product. Young people will also hear from Abhimanu Kudasamy High Commissioner of Mauritius.



Further stimulation is guaranteed with a wide ranging group of speakers which include several young entrepreneurs including Phil Batty of Force-7, Ross Bennett of Engaging Education, Loui Fowler of Triple R Banners. Amanda Hartley and Phil Benson of Xing as well as established entreprenurs like Jonathan Straight of Straight plc and Ian Sallis a Trichology Consultant.



Budding entrepreneurs on Twitter can use # GEWfwd to share anxieties, post queries about starting a business and get support back from others.



Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership works year-round to encourage and support entrepreneurship, including running the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge, Hull Ready, Youth Enterprise Bank, Lee Creamer Youth Enterprise Suite and the ILM Award for Business and Enterprise.