Thursday 31 July 2014
Monday 28 July 2014
Hull Global Entrepreneurship Week 2014 @GEW2014
Message from Cllr Mary Glew - Lord Mayor of Kingston upon Hull
I am delighted to give my backing to Global Entrepreneurship Week 2014
Now in its sixth year, Global Entrepreneurship Week brings together university students, school pupils, teachers, entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, employees, non-profit organisations and many others to celebrate and promote entrepreneurship across the globe. And this global movement is growing every year, with more and more countries and organisations involved. We want to make the next decade the most dynamic and entrepreneurial in Hulls history.
The work carried out by the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership will help us achieve this, and is testament to the dedication across the City to support and encourage young people to get involved with enterprise and entrepreneurship.
I am particularly pleased that as part of Hull's Global Entrepreneurship Week Celebrations that at the start of November the City will see a special £5 Blossom celebration with schools and apprentices across the City developing ideas to make their business loans grow and which will see the profits shared between the schools and apprentices, the city's Be Enterprising Group and my own charities this year which are the Preston Road Women’s Centre, the Teenage Cancer Unit at Castle Hill hospital and Matthews Hub.
I wish everyone involved every success for the week and beyond.
DAY ONE: Monday 17th November 2014 MAKE YOUR MARK CHALLENGE
The Make Your Mark Challenge was a local challenge whereby Hull secondary schools were invited to seek funding from the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank to run an enterprise day and to host the event to launch the city's new youth enterprise strategy and action plan. The winner of this years challenge was East Hull School Malet Lambert who will be working with young entrepreneurs Engaging Education on an exciting day for over 100 students from the school.
As part of the day there will be a challenge set and on hand for advice will be local business people, but the final presentations will be down to the groups themselves, the winner being chosen by a panel of judges looking for the most convincing business.
DAY TWO: Tuesday 18th November 2014 HULL HOOK UP
This will be a link up with The Hook Up Dinner in South Africa with the support of Hull based telecommunications company KC who will be hosting Hull based young entrepreneurs, business representative, pupils from local schools and individuals who support Hull's enterprising young people with a similar group in South Africa the idea of such an event held in Global Entrepreneurship Week came about after the visit of South African entrepreneur Selebogo Molfe to Hull during Business Week for the Youth Enterprise Summit.
DAY THREE: Wednesday 19th November 2014 HULL APP CHALLENGE
This years primary school enterprise event is sponsored by Malet Lambert School and Engaging Education and pupils will be expected to demonstrate knowledge of the Big 13 Enterprise Skills.
Planning, promotion and delivery are all essential qualities in running a successful newspaper; this year’s primary enterprise event will see pupils get the chance to develop an App to promote the City which could be linked to City of a Culture 2017, local sport or Hull as an energy city. Part of the day will see representatives from Mail, News & Media on hand to judge the best ideas whilst also outlining how a modern day newspaper uses new technology from Twitter to Facebook and websites to short video clips to tell the news?
Watching closely will be guest speaker Claire Young, finalist from the BBC’s The Apprentice programme, who will go on to tell the young people about her journey in business and give advice on how to design an App. The winners on the day will be presented with vouchers presented by local businesses that are supporting the day.
DAY FOUR: Thursday 20th November 2014
A) FINAL BADGERS SETT ENTERPRISE CHALLENGE 2014
The winners of each of the three sections of the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge (Primary, Secondary and Post 16) www.hullbadgers.co.uk get to compete against each other to double their original winnings, this years panel will include Mike Pennington MD of Mail, News & Media, last years winner Harry Hopkins, Nick Page, Commercial Director of Swift Group and Ruth Badger herself.
B) POST-16 ENTERPRISE MASTERCLASS
Many of the 16-18 year olds taking part in this Masterclass will already have some idea what their future directions will be, but one person capable of perhaps making them think again will be no-nonsense, straight talking Ruth Badger, international business guru and runner-up in the 2006 The Apprentice competition, as well as giving the young people the benefit of her experience in the world of business.
Ruth will be heading up the Badger’s Sett, a panel of judges and examining in detail the results of a group activity, to come up with a new internal design for a caravan following a challenge set by Swift Caravans, once they have come up with their idea they will have to present them in a concise presentation to a panel that includes Nick Page the Commercial Director of Swift Group
The young people will also hear from young entrepreneurs including Princes Trust Ambassador, Gina Moffatt from London, who will outline her enterprise journey.
DAY FIVE: Friday 21st November 2014
A) SECONDARY SCHOOL ENTERPRISE MASTERCLASS
Bringing the week to a close is our Secondary Enterprise Masterclass, which will again see young people taking on a practical task set by local company The Sangwin Group before pitching it to Ruth Badger and fellow judges in the Badger’s Sett.
Further stimulation is guaranteed with a wide ranging group of speakers which include several local entrepreneurs including Harry Hopkins of Hull Top Trips and Katie Norman of Labrascals, plus the Lord Mayor of Hull Cllr Mary Glew, the High Commissioner of Mauritius Abhimanu Kudasamy, Andy Pickles of Jive Bunny fame and MD of U-explore and of course, Ruth Badger herself.
B) AWARDS AND CELEBRATION EVENING
Don’t miss out on our end-of-the week Awards and Celebration Evening of fun, food and live music at The Guildhall with well known local band The Skylarks. During the evening The Lord Mayor Mary Glew and Diana Johnson MP will be presenting our Annual Awards. This year’s awards are:-
1) Most enterprising Primary School in Hull 2014
2) Most enterprising Secondary School in Hull 2014
3) The business that has done the most to promote an enterprise culture in the city 2014
4) The Sheila Waudby Young Entrepreneur Year 2014
5) Most Enterprising teacher 2014
6) John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Award
7) Lee Creamer Youth Enterprise Leadership Award
8) The Sheila Waudby Teen Entrepreneur Year 2014
I am delighted to give my backing to Global Entrepreneurship Week 2014
Now in its sixth year, Global Entrepreneurship Week brings together university students, school pupils, teachers, entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, employees, non-profit organisations and many others to celebrate and promote entrepreneurship across the globe. And this global movement is growing every year, with more and more countries and organisations involved. We want to make the next decade the most dynamic and entrepreneurial in Hulls history.
The work carried out by the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership will help us achieve this, and is testament to the dedication across the City to support and encourage young people to get involved with enterprise and entrepreneurship.
I am particularly pleased that as part of Hull's Global Entrepreneurship Week Celebrations that at the start of November the City will see a special £5 Blossom celebration with schools and apprentices across the City developing ideas to make their business loans grow and which will see the profits shared between the schools and apprentices, the city's Be Enterprising Group and my own charities this year which are the Preston Road Women’s Centre, the Teenage Cancer Unit at Castle Hill hospital and Matthews Hub.
I wish everyone involved every success for the week and beyond.
DAY ONE: Monday 17th November 2014 MAKE YOUR MARK CHALLENGE
The Make Your Mark Challenge was a local challenge whereby Hull secondary schools were invited to seek funding from the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank to run an enterprise day and to host the event to launch the city's new youth enterprise strategy and action plan. The winner of this years challenge was East Hull School Malet Lambert who will be working with young entrepreneurs Engaging Education on an exciting day for over 100 students from the school.
As part of the day there will be a challenge set and on hand for advice will be local business people, but the final presentations will be down to the groups themselves, the winner being chosen by a panel of judges looking for the most convincing business.
DAY TWO: Tuesday 18th November 2014 HULL HOOK UP
This will be a link up with The Hook Up Dinner in South Africa with the support of Hull based telecommunications company KC who will be hosting Hull based young entrepreneurs, business representative, pupils from local schools and individuals who support Hull's enterprising young people with a similar group in South Africa the idea of such an event held in Global Entrepreneurship Week came about after the visit of South African entrepreneur Selebogo Molfe to Hull during Business Week for the Youth Enterprise Summit.
DAY THREE: Wednesday 19th November 2014 HULL APP CHALLENGE
This years primary school enterprise event is sponsored by Malet Lambert School and Engaging Education and pupils will be expected to demonstrate knowledge of the Big 13 Enterprise Skills.
Planning, promotion and delivery are all essential qualities in running a successful newspaper; this year’s primary enterprise event will see pupils get the chance to develop an App to promote the City which could be linked to City of a Culture 2017, local sport or Hull as an energy city. Part of the day will see representatives from Mail, News & Media on hand to judge the best ideas whilst also outlining how a modern day newspaper uses new technology from Twitter to Facebook and websites to short video clips to tell the news?
Watching closely will be guest speaker Claire Young, finalist from the BBC’s The Apprentice programme, who will go on to tell the young people about her journey in business and give advice on how to design an App. The winners on the day will be presented with vouchers presented by local businesses that are supporting the day.
DAY FOUR: Thursday 20th November 2014
A) FINAL BADGERS SETT ENTERPRISE CHALLENGE 2014
The winners of each of the three sections of the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge (Primary, Secondary and Post 16) www.hullbadgers.co.uk get to compete against each other to double their original winnings, this years panel will include Mike Pennington MD of Mail, News & Media, last years winner Harry Hopkins, Nick Page, Commercial Director of Swift Group and Ruth Badger herself.
B) POST-16 ENTERPRISE MASTERCLASS
Many of the 16-18 year olds taking part in this Masterclass will already have some idea what their future directions will be, but one person capable of perhaps making them think again will be no-nonsense, straight talking Ruth Badger, international business guru and runner-up in the 2006 The Apprentice competition, as well as giving the young people the benefit of her experience in the world of business.
Ruth will be heading up the Badger’s Sett, a panel of judges and examining in detail the results of a group activity, to come up with a new internal design for a caravan following a challenge set by Swift Caravans, once they have come up with their idea they will have to present them in a concise presentation to a panel that includes Nick Page the Commercial Director of Swift Group
The young people will also hear from young entrepreneurs including Princes Trust Ambassador, Gina Moffatt from London, who will outline her enterprise journey.
DAY FIVE: Friday 21st November 2014
A) SECONDARY SCHOOL ENTERPRISE MASTERCLASS
Bringing the week to a close is our Secondary Enterprise Masterclass, which will again see young people taking on a practical task set by local company The Sangwin Group before pitching it to Ruth Badger and fellow judges in the Badger’s Sett.
Further stimulation is guaranteed with a wide ranging group of speakers which include several local entrepreneurs including Harry Hopkins of Hull Top Trips and Katie Norman of Labrascals, plus the Lord Mayor of Hull Cllr Mary Glew, the High Commissioner of Mauritius Abhimanu Kudasamy, Andy Pickles of Jive Bunny fame and MD of U-explore and of course, Ruth Badger herself.
B) AWARDS AND CELEBRATION EVENING
Don’t miss out on our end-of-the week Awards and Celebration Evening of fun, food and live music at The Guildhall with well known local band The Skylarks. During the evening The Lord Mayor Mary Glew and Diana Johnson MP will be presenting our Annual Awards. This year’s awards are:-
1) Most enterprising Primary School in Hull 2014
2) Most enterprising Secondary School in Hull 2014
3) The business that has done the most to promote an enterprise culture in the city 2014
4) The Sheila Waudby Young Entrepreneur Year 2014
5) Most Enterprising teacher 2014
6) John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Award
7) Lee Creamer Youth Enterprise Leadership Award
8) The Sheila Waudby Teen Entrepreneur Year 2014
Sunday 27 July 2014
Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge 2014
The Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge supported by Hull City Council and Ruth Badger is open to young people aged 24 or under, and has three age ranges - Primary Schools, Secondary Schools and Post 16 - individuals or groups may apply.
Candidates must be living in Hull or the East Riding and have an enterprising idea such as a new business idea, a co-operative, a community enterprise project or an enterprising school or college project. The deadline for entries is 1st October 2014. The winners of each section will get the opportunity to pitch at Global Entrepreneurship Week to double their winnings against a panel chaired by Ruth Badger.
Prize money for the winners of each section is as follows:
Primary School section up to £500
Secondary School section up to £750
Post 16 - Business idea for 16 - 24 year olds up to £1,200
Harry Hopkins Malet Lambert School winner Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge 2013, said:
"I was really pleased to win the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge 2013 with my idea of a card game linked to City of Culture 2017 it has encouraged me to take my idea further and I now have a website that I coded my self with the support of Kit Hargreaves of Apple Pear.
"I have since held meetings will people interested in my idea and have spoken at the Yorkshire Youth Enterprise Summit as well as attending No 10 Downing Street to meet Lord Young the Governments Enterprise Champion and am speaking at an event with Ruth Badger and Diana Johnson MP in November.
“There is no doubt without the support of Ruth, I would not have got as far as I have with my business idea."
Councillor Martin Mancey, Portfolio Holder for Energy City, said:
"As a Council we have a real commitment to developing an enterprise culture amongst our young people with the Hull Youth Enterprise a Partnership so they in turn can benefit from future opportunities in our great City.
“I am pleased that once again Ruth has committed to support this enterprise challenge and we look forward to it producing great potential young entrepreneurs like Harry did last year.”
Ruth Badger, added: "I am very passionate about enterprise and ensuring young people have the opportunity to engage in it! Out of all cities and towns in the UK that I work with, I believe that Hull are the best at engaging real entrepreneurs and successful businesses in partnering up with future young entrepreneurs and that is why I set up this competition in your area with the Hull City Council five years ago.
"I want to encourage young people in Hull and the East Riding, an area that I have adopted for its commitment to its enterprising young people, who possibly are not at the stage where they feel can develop their idea on their own or need some extra confidence with financial resource and mentoring."
Tuesday 22 July 2014
Hull formal response to Lord Young Review into Enterprise Education
Dear Lord Young,
Please find enclosed our response to your Enterprise Education Review.
Firstly as you are aware following our visit to see you, Hull has a real commitment to enterprise education & the youth entrepreneurship agenda and we are looking forward to your visit in the autumn to see us and some of our enterprising young people. As you aware over the last few months we have been involved in that Review, including visiting yourselves with pupils from Malet Lambert School, Sirius Academy and Gillshill Primary to show you our Enterprise Trail Board Game that was made with young entrepreneurs and Engaging Education and we aim to have this made available for all our schools as it shows the journey a young person takes and the support available in Hull. We have now decided to work with the same pupils on turning this into an App over the coming months for Hull schools. We are also currently reviewing and developing a new youth enterprise strategy for Hull 2015 - 2020 which has at it's heart much of what you are saying in your review and we would be delighted if you would write an introduction for it - we will send you a draft copy in early September as we hope to publish it during Global Entrepreneurship Week.
We agree and support many of the principles in your review but have reservations about the implementation. Many of the problems we at the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership have identified have been picked up on but you are seemingly going for a one size fits all approach in giving LEP's the responsibility on leading on some of this work, but we will have to see how future discussions go with our LEP (sadly we think they are not as on board with what we have been doing since they were established). We have already had a meeting, as our approach in Hull has not been just about inviting individuals and organisation in to talk or deliver enterprise, it's about embedding and encouraging teachers and tutors to link what they are doing in terms of enterprise education to the developing economic opportunities, it was for that reason that City Regeneration and Policy, Hull City Council set up with interested parties, The Be Enterprising Group, that has 200 members that meet in twilight sessions and has its own twitter @HullsEntEd and websitewww.beenterprisinghull.co.uk
It is genuinely satisfying to see more people, thanks to your review, recognising the significance of enterprise education and the increasing value of fostering an enterprising attitude through the education process, though we await the main Government response, in particular Department of Education and the new Secretary of State to your review. When we met you we were pleased that you were as passionate about what we do in Hull as we are and were pleased that you said that you were not worried about us as an area in supporting this agenda as we are already doing a great deal without significant financial investment and you recognised we have taken risks at every stage, working with many organisations.
As you know as a City we are very keen to work with national partners to give a Hull flavour, we were very successful in persuading the Premier League to adapt their enterprise programme to include Hull FC as well as Hull City AFC and that worked well. As part of this approach we welcome the Are You Ready hub model to Hull via one of our more enterprising schools Malet Lambert where all those involved have said it has been fairly easy to establish because of our work in the past. This adapting approach was recently successful when Founders 4 Schools agreed to get their speakers to promote the Big 13 Enterprise Skills when in our area and we in turn agreed to promote them to our schools and throughout Yorkshire. Arising out of our recent Youth enterprise Summit in Business Week they are linking up with other parts of the country that they were not involved
We fully endorse the proposed Enterprise Passport as a digital record of approved enterprise activities in which a student has participated at some stage in their education from primary school onwards. The ambition here is that this becomes an addition to the CV and a mark of skills competency for employers. The formalisation will help educational institutions take this seriously and future employers can use it as a selection aid, we are willing to be a pilot on this proposal as with our Be Enterprising Group we had already discussed how we establish a local passport that the young person and school/college would find invaluable to illustrate what enterprise education they had undertaken.
We wholly support the principle of recording enterprise achievements and trying to develop a pipeline through the educational system right through to employment. Our only reservation is about what makes the list of activities that are endorsed? This is not yet clear. (Though it needs to include more than just national programmes and activities as I would argue that our £5 blossom scheme linked to Big 13 Enterprise Skills is more successful for our young people in Hull than £5 and £10 programmes) We are concerned that the "Passport" may well create a 'verification' model for some forms of enterprise education that excludes local delivery, we are interested to know how it would take into account localism (It would be interesting to see if our activities in GEW would meet the criteria that we support and encourage withwww.gewhull.co.uk) It is for this reason as stated earlier we would like to be a pilot for this initiative.
As a partnership and a City we fully endorse embedding enterprise into new curriculum materials and are pleased that our 'Be Enterprising Group' are already doing this, which in turn will be linked to the City Plan and Hulls status as City of Culture 2017 (The development of these materials are to be undertaken and financed by school based enterprise activities) indeed some schools are already looking to change part of their curriculum to do this. The Be Enterprising Group through Hull City Council's City Region and Policy section are already looking to develop more training modules that in turn could lead to providing teachers with experience in a micro business run by young entrepreneurs' as part of their Continuous Professional Development.
As stated earlier our main concern is the LEP having the responsibility at a local level to lead on the proposed new national volunteer network of 'Enterprise Advisers', coordinated by the LEP's, to work closely with school heads and enlist local businesses and other occupations and professions to give pupils real-life experience of the world of work and business engagement, including emphasis on STEM subjects in order to improve industry and employability skills. (One of our young entrepreneurs, Katie Norman of Labrascals, with our support had come up with an idea of joining up STEM and Enterprise, please see Appendix 2, that we hope to establish with Huddersfield University and Hull University)
In our view we have not seen the evidence that the LEP will take onboard what is already happening on the ground (there is a chance that we go to the lowest common denominator in our LEP area that would not be good for Hull) and taking into account out expertise built up over the last ten years and of course the views of our enterprising teachers and tutors that we are currently working with, not to mention organisations such as our Patrons Claire Young's School Speakers and Foundation 4 Schools (who we have just established a working relationship with) - our approach has always been to enable young entrepreneurs to do this as they are more able to empathise with the students rather than "old men in suits" which tend to dominate our LEP who do not have the same passion for our work as you do. I have to say despite our reservations we have started talks with the LEP and hope our ideas based on our work in Hull is integral to any submission from them, indeed we are urging them to submit a proposal to you by November that will include mainly young entrepreneurs going into schools in Hull to help on the developing pupils enterprise skills and supporting teen entrepreneurs)
We are very pleased that HRH the Duke of York (we are very impressed with his iDEA Award and are looking to work with him and the Nominet Trust on this, indeed we are visiting them in their Bristol Offices this week) will be patron to a new 'E-Star' award that acknowledges universities delivering strong enterprise outcomes for their students. This seems positive, although again the devil will be in the detail. Exactly what the criteria will be and who the judges are remains to be seen, though I suspect that our new partners, Huddersfield University, will be in a good position to implement this and we certainly hope the Hull University would get involved, and that both Universities will work with us all to achieve their 'E-Star'. We would certainly urge you to take into account any response that comes from Huddersfield University as we have found them an excellent institution that has a real commitment to enterprise skills throughout their institution.
Overall there is a lot of potential in your Review - and probably that is potential to do well. Our worry is the implementation of many of these initiatives which could do more harm than, good bearing in mind the reaction we have had at times in setting up our activities and programmes; if they are done quickly and crudely then the damage will be substantial and we will go backwards in Hull. If the nuances and diversity of the world of enterprise education is recognised then actually it could be transformational in terms of the significance and coherency of enterprise education in England and we certainly, as the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership, can play our part in the Humber area if we are allowed to do so and that those who have stated they do not want to partner us do not get to run the show, which is our worse case scenario.
As a partnership we still feel that the following should be encouraged and could be showcased as potential future ideas in any follow up report, in Hull we are going to continue to do so.
1) Establish Young entrepreneur in residence programmes - secondary schools to work with enterprise champions, supported by a named governor and linking activity between business and feeder schools using enterprise transition activities such as the game described.
2) Establish youth enterprise development companies like the one we outlined to you that is to be led by Engaging Education to give "apprentice" like opportunities to teen entrepreneurs that will also manage local young entrepreneur's speaker networks, whereby local young entrepreneurs are paid expenses to go into primary, secondary and post 16 providers to discuss the value of entrepreneurship as a career option.
3) Establish area based Youth Enterprise Banks - managed by teachers and young entrepreneurs (or current partnerships) to give grants/loans for enterprise activities linked to local communities of up to £150 a time, whereby the pupils undertake a range of enterprise activities over a three-month period. At the conclusion of the programme the school keeps 70% profit with the rest going to local partnership to further develop enterprise training programmes around enterprise skills for teachers, lecturers and apprentice tutors so they in turn can help young people to be more enterprising, and to develop visual and web based curriculum programmes linked to local economic needs.
4) Establish all age 5 to 24 Enterprise Challenges, whereby the winners of different age groups have the chance of a financial reward and get the opportunity to double their winnings when they compete against each other. Please see our example in Hullwww.hullbadgers.co.uk that has proved to be very popular with young people who have undertaken enterprise education programmes in school (this was highlighted in responses to our recent survey shown in Appendix 1)
5) As part of this approach it would be important to evaluate what the young people thought about these and all enterprise education (and indeed teen entrepreneurs) activities against the Big 13 Enterprise Skills and also to promote what was achieved via YouTube sites and written reports like we have already done in the City.
Appendix 1
As part of our consultation with partners, teachers, potential young entrepreneurs and current entrepreneurs as well as those working with enterprising young people on the Lord Young Review into Enterprise Education (and youth entrepreneurship) we undertook a survey and got the following results from 250 responses:-
90% thought the Youth Enterprise summit held in Business Week was an excellent event showcasing Hull as a place that supports it's enterprising young people and demonstrated the importance of enterprise education, it was felt that all LEP areas should hold such events each year in partnership with local authorities within their LEP boundaries.
55% of young entrepreneurs said they would support a network group of young people that could mentor each other and trade with each other; this was seen as particular importance to those who in Hull had run their businesses whilst at school.
75% said Hull was implementing the Lord Young Review already, indeed 70% said what was already happening in Hull was better than what was proposed in The Lord Young review, it is with this in mind that 90% of teachers felt Hulls developing enterprise passport was a good way forward linked to Big 13 Enterprise Skills rather than a national scheme.
80% said they welcomed the work of Hull City Council and the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership in supporting enterprise education and youth entrepreneurship in the City. Clearly this shows the value of a bottom up rather than a top down model, as seen by the welcoming by teachers and other organisations of our revised youth enterprise strategy that brings together enterprise education and youth entrepreneurship.
85% of young entrepreneurs said they would like to see the establishment of youth enterprise incubator space for potential young entrepreneurs that included space for teen entrepreneurs that are still at school and college.
90% of young entrepreneurs said they would like to see a youth enterprise zone in the City and see a place were young entrepreneurs could sell their products and services, especially if it included space for teen entrepreneurs.
75% of teachers and pupils valued the activities and events held in Global Entrepreneurship Week in Hull as they raise the profile and outlines the importance of enterprise skills, many thought that the LEP's should fund such activities across their areas in partnership with local authorities, schools and where there is one local enterprise education partnership.
75% of teachers thought the work of the Be Enterprising Group,www.beenterprisinghull.co.uk, is essential in helping the City to teach and support the development of enterprise skills in schools, colleges and training providers and that other areas of the country should establish similar networks funded via LEP's, local authorities and raise their own funds like Hull does.
75% of respondents welcomed the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challengewww.hullbadgers.co.uk as a practical programme that enables young people still in school to illustrate their enterprise skills and business ideas. It is interesting to note that though this competition is open to young people aged 5 to 24, the overall winners in the last four years have been teen entrepreneurs, one of whom was home educated.
85% of young entrepreneurs said a peer to peer mentor group was key to encouraging more young people to consider going into business, not just a group of "older" business people going into schools and colleges to give talks. 75% of pupils wanted young entrepreneurs more than any other group to help them understand and setting up a business and wanted to know about their enterprise journeys.
85% of potential and current entrepreneurs felt that finance and mentor support was essential to help them to develop their business idea and 90% thought the youth enterprise bank www.youthenterprise.co.uk was an excellent initiative that delivers this especially as it supports Teen entrepreneurs still at school and college as well as young entrepreneurs.
Appendix 2
STEEM (science, technology, engineering, enterprise & Maths) Centre
A STEEM centre will provide STEM and enterprising outreach projects and activities for age 4+. The projects will allow people to design products using computer aided software and to produce prototypes with the help of 3D printing technology, alongside designing apps and educational games. The centre will also provide educational project days which enable people to design & programme mining robots, build fuel cell powered cars, other green energy generating devices and tools. The centre will also provide experience workshops which allow people to experience what it's like to be a wind turbine engineer, aircraft engineer, medical expert and scientists in several fields with the aid of 3D virtual reality stimulating technology. The centre will hold several business and science festivals, make it fairs, showcase days and talks for the general public on STEM and enterprising related topics by STEM companies and business experts regularly.
All workshops with be designed to encourage enterprise by taking people through product design processes and educate people on how to get their products on the market. This will include workshops on market research, finance, business planning, business registration, marketing & advertising, customer relations and networking. Some workshops will also highlight the available STEM careers and the skills required to for them.
The centre will be a support network of experts in both the STEM and enterprise fields for all businesses including start-ups. The STEEM centre will allow STEM related companies to use the centre for public engagement and outreach activities. This will allow children and the general public to understand what companies are in the area and the type of possible future STEM careers are available. Part of the centre will have to be a business support hub for all STEM related business to use for advice and guidance from experts in both STEM and business. Having this available support network will encourage youths to push forwards with their STEM business ideas. This will not only increase the economy of the future by creating new careers but encourage people to reach their true potential and get people back into work.
Aims & Objectives
To inspire more children into STEM careers and being enterprising by running related workshops and projects.
To provide training workshops and projects which encourage minority groups such as school dropouts and youth offenders to go into STEM careers and enterprise.
To have a support network of experts in the STEM and enterprising fields working together to help business start-ups succeed.
To provide a support network for STEM businesses for life to help businesses expand and keep up to date with technology advances.
To educate the public about STEM research, development, and related businesses in the UK.
Please find enclosed our response to your Enterprise Education Review.
Firstly as you are aware following our visit to see you, Hull has a real commitment to enterprise education & the youth entrepreneurship agenda and we are looking forward to your visit in the autumn to see us and some of our enterprising young people. As you aware over the last few months we have been involved in that Review, including visiting yourselves with pupils from Malet Lambert School, Sirius Academy and Gillshill Primary to show you our Enterprise Trail Board Game that was made with young entrepreneurs and Engaging Education and we aim to have this made available for all our schools as it shows the journey a young person takes and the support available in Hull. We have now decided to work with the same pupils on turning this into an App over the coming months for Hull schools. We are also currently reviewing and developing a new youth enterprise strategy for Hull 2015 - 2020 which has at it's heart much of what you are saying in your review and we would be delighted if you would write an introduction for it - we will send you a draft copy in early September as we hope to publish it during Global Entrepreneurship Week.
We agree and support many of the principles in your review but have reservations about the implementation. Many of the problems we at the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership have identified have been picked up on but you are seemingly going for a one size fits all approach in giving LEP's the responsibility on leading on some of this work, but we will have to see how future discussions go with our LEP (sadly we think they are not as on board with what we have been doing since they were established). We have already had a meeting, as our approach in Hull has not been just about inviting individuals and organisation in to talk or deliver enterprise, it's about embedding and encouraging teachers and tutors to link what they are doing in terms of enterprise education to the developing economic opportunities, it was for that reason that City Regeneration and Policy, Hull City Council set up with interested parties, The Be Enterprising Group, that has 200 members that meet in twilight sessions and has its own twitter @HullsEntEd and websitewww.beenterprisinghull.co.uk
It is genuinely satisfying to see more people, thanks to your review, recognising the significance of enterprise education and the increasing value of fostering an enterprising attitude through the education process, though we await the main Government response, in particular Department of Education and the new Secretary of State to your review. When we met you we were pleased that you were as passionate about what we do in Hull as we are and were pleased that you said that you were not worried about us as an area in supporting this agenda as we are already doing a great deal without significant financial investment and you recognised we have taken risks at every stage, working with many organisations.
As you know as a City we are very keen to work with national partners to give a Hull flavour, we were very successful in persuading the Premier League to adapt their enterprise programme to include Hull FC as well as Hull City AFC and that worked well. As part of this approach we welcome the Are You Ready hub model to Hull via one of our more enterprising schools Malet Lambert where all those involved have said it has been fairly easy to establish because of our work in the past. This adapting approach was recently successful when Founders 4 Schools agreed to get their speakers to promote the Big 13 Enterprise Skills when in our area and we in turn agreed to promote them to our schools and throughout Yorkshire. Arising out of our recent Youth enterprise Summit in Business Week they are linking up with other parts of the country that they were not involved
We fully endorse the proposed Enterprise Passport as a digital record of approved enterprise activities in which a student has participated at some stage in their education from primary school onwards. The ambition here is that this becomes an addition to the CV and a mark of skills competency for employers. The formalisation will help educational institutions take this seriously and future employers can use it as a selection aid, we are willing to be a pilot on this proposal as with our Be Enterprising Group we had already discussed how we establish a local passport that the young person and school/college would find invaluable to illustrate what enterprise education they had undertaken.
We wholly support the principle of recording enterprise achievements and trying to develop a pipeline through the educational system right through to employment. Our only reservation is about what makes the list of activities that are endorsed? This is not yet clear. (Though it needs to include more than just national programmes and activities as I would argue that our £5 blossom scheme linked to Big 13 Enterprise Skills is more successful for our young people in Hull than £5 and £10 programmes) We are concerned that the "Passport" may well create a 'verification' model for some forms of enterprise education that excludes local delivery, we are interested to know how it would take into account localism (It would be interesting to see if our activities in GEW would meet the criteria that we support and encourage withwww.gewhull.co.uk) It is for this reason as stated earlier we would like to be a pilot for this initiative.
As a partnership and a City we fully endorse embedding enterprise into new curriculum materials and are pleased that our 'Be Enterprising Group' are already doing this, which in turn will be linked to the City Plan and Hulls status as City of Culture 2017 (The development of these materials are to be undertaken and financed by school based enterprise activities) indeed some schools are already looking to change part of their curriculum to do this. The Be Enterprising Group through Hull City Council's City Region and Policy section are already looking to develop more training modules that in turn could lead to providing teachers with experience in a micro business run by young entrepreneurs' as part of their Continuous Professional Development.
As stated earlier our main concern is the LEP having the responsibility at a local level to lead on the proposed new national volunteer network of 'Enterprise Advisers', coordinated by the LEP's, to work closely with school heads and enlist local businesses and other occupations and professions to give pupils real-life experience of the world of work and business engagement, including emphasis on STEM subjects in order to improve industry and employability skills. (One of our young entrepreneurs, Katie Norman of Labrascals, with our support had come up with an idea of joining up STEM and Enterprise, please see Appendix 2, that we hope to establish with Huddersfield University and Hull University)
In our view we have not seen the evidence that the LEP will take onboard what is already happening on the ground (there is a chance that we go to the lowest common denominator in our LEP area that would not be good for Hull) and taking into account out expertise built up over the last ten years and of course the views of our enterprising teachers and tutors that we are currently working with, not to mention organisations such as our Patrons Claire Young's School Speakers and Foundation 4 Schools (who we have just established a working relationship with) - our approach has always been to enable young entrepreneurs to do this as they are more able to empathise with the students rather than "old men in suits" which tend to dominate our LEP who do not have the same passion for our work as you do. I have to say despite our reservations we have started talks with the LEP and hope our ideas based on our work in Hull is integral to any submission from them, indeed we are urging them to submit a proposal to you by November that will include mainly young entrepreneurs going into schools in Hull to help on the developing pupils enterprise skills and supporting teen entrepreneurs)
We are very pleased that HRH the Duke of York (we are very impressed with his iDEA Award and are looking to work with him and the Nominet Trust on this, indeed we are visiting them in their Bristol Offices this week) will be patron to a new 'E-Star' award that acknowledges universities delivering strong enterprise outcomes for their students. This seems positive, although again the devil will be in the detail. Exactly what the criteria will be and who the judges are remains to be seen, though I suspect that our new partners, Huddersfield University, will be in a good position to implement this and we certainly hope the Hull University would get involved, and that both Universities will work with us all to achieve their 'E-Star'. We would certainly urge you to take into account any response that comes from Huddersfield University as we have found them an excellent institution that has a real commitment to enterprise skills throughout their institution.
Overall there is a lot of potential in your Review - and probably that is potential to do well. Our worry is the implementation of many of these initiatives which could do more harm than, good bearing in mind the reaction we have had at times in setting up our activities and programmes; if they are done quickly and crudely then the damage will be substantial and we will go backwards in Hull. If the nuances and diversity of the world of enterprise education is recognised then actually it could be transformational in terms of the significance and coherency of enterprise education in England and we certainly, as the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership, can play our part in the Humber area if we are allowed to do so and that those who have stated they do not want to partner us do not get to run the show, which is our worse case scenario.
As a partnership we still feel that the following should be encouraged and could be showcased as potential future ideas in any follow up report, in Hull we are going to continue to do so.
1) Establish Young entrepreneur in residence programmes - secondary schools to work with enterprise champions, supported by a named governor and linking activity between business and feeder schools using enterprise transition activities such as the game described.
2) Establish youth enterprise development companies like the one we outlined to you that is to be led by Engaging Education to give "apprentice" like opportunities to teen entrepreneurs that will also manage local young entrepreneur's speaker networks, whereby local young entrepreneurs are paid expenses to go into primary, secondary and post 16 providers to discuss the value of entrepreneurship as a career option.
3) Establish area based Youth Enterprise Banks - managed by teachers and young entrepreneurs (or current partnerships) to give grants/loans for enterprise activities linked to local communities of up to £150 a time, whereby the pupils undertake a range of enterprise activities over a three-month period. At the conclusion of the programme the school keeps 70% profit with the rest going to local partnership to further develop enterprise training programmes around enterprise skills for teachers, lecturers and apprentice tutors so they in turn can help young people to be more enterprising, and to develop visual and web based curriculum programmes linked to local economic needs.
4) Establish all age 5 to 24 Enterprise Challenges, whereby the winners of different age groups have the chance of a financial reward and get the opportunity to double their winnings when they compete against each other. Please see our example in Hullwww.hullbadgers.co.uk that has proved to be very popular with young people who have undertaken enterprise education programmes in school (this was highlighted in responses to our recent survey shown in Appendix 1)
5) As part of this approach it would be important to evaluate what the young people thought about these and all enterprise education (and indeed teen entrepreneurs) activities against the Big 13 Enterprise Skills and also to promote what was achieved via YouTube sites and written reports like we have already done in the City.
Appendix 1
As part of our consultation with partners, teachers, potential young entrepreneurs and current entrepreneurs as well as those working with enterprising young people on the Lord Young Review into Enterprise Education (and youth entrepreneurship) we undertook a survey and got the following results from 250 responses:-
90% thought the Youth Enterprise summit held in Business Week was an excellent event showcasing Hull as a place that supports it's enterprising young people and demonstrated the importance of enterprise education, it was felt that all LEP areas should hold such events each year in partnership with local authorities within their LEP boundaries.
55% of young entrepreneurs said they would support a network group of young people that could mentor each other and trade with each other; this was seen as particular importance to those who in Hull had run their businesses whilst at school.
75% said Hull was implementing the Lord Young Review already, indeed 70% said what was already happening in Hull was better than what was proposed in The Lord Young review, it is with this in mind that 90% of teachers felt Hulls developing enterprise passport was a good way forward linked to Big 13 Enterprise Skills rather than a national scheme.
80% said they welcomed the work of Hull City Council and the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership in supporting enterprise education and youth entrepreneurship in the City. Clearly this shows the value of a bottom up rather than a top down model, as seen by the welcoming by teachers and other organisations of our revised youth enterprise strategy that brings together enterprise education and youth entrepreneurship.
85% of young entrepreneurs said they would like to see the establishment of youth enterprise incubator space for potential young entrepreneurs that included space for teen entrepreneurs that are still at school and college.
90% of young entrepreneurs said they would like to see a youth enterprise zone in the City and see a place were young entrepreneurs could sell their products and services, especially if it included space for teen entrepreneurs.
75% of teachers and pupils valued the activities and events held in Global Entrepreneurship Week in Hull as they raise the profile and outlines the importance of enterprise skills, many thought that the LEP's should fund such activities across their areas in partnership with local authorities, schools and where there is one local enterprise education partnership.
75% of teachers thought the work of the Be Enterprising Group,www.beenterprisinghull.co.uk, is essential in helping the City to teach and support the development of enterprise skills in schools, colleges and training providers and that other areas of the country should establish similar networks funded via LEP's, local authorities and raise their own funds like Hull does.
75% of respondents welcomed the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challengewww.hullbadgers.co.uk as a practical programme that enables young people still in school to illustrate their enterprise skills and business ideas. It is interesting to note that though this competition is open to young people aged 5 to 24, the overall winners in the last four years have been teen entrepreneurs, one of whom was home educated.
85% of young entrepreneurs said a peer to peer mentor group was key to encouraging more young people to consider going into business, not just a group of "older" business people going into schools and colleges to give talks. 75% of pupils wanted young entrepreneurs more than any other group to help them understand and setting up a business and wanted to know about their enterprise journeys.
85% of potential and current entrepreneurs felt that finance and mentor support was essential to help them to develop their business idea and 90% thought the youth enterprise bank www.youthenterprise.co.uk was an excellent initiative that delivers this especially as it supports Teen entrepreneurs still at school and college as well as young entrepreneurs.
Appendix 2
STEEM (science, technology, engineering, enterprise & Maths) Centre
A STEEM centre will provide STEM and enterprising outreach projects and activities for age 4+. The projects will allow people to design products using computer aided software and to produce prototypes with the help of 3D printing technology, alongside designing apps and educational games. The centre will also provide educational project days which enable people to design & programme mining robots, build fuel cell powered cars, other green energy generating devices and tools. The centre will also provide experience workshops which allow people to experience what it's like to be a wind turbine engineer, aircraft engineer, medical expert and scientists in several fields with the aid of 3D virtual reality stimulating technology. The centre will hold several business and science festivals, make it fairs, showcase days and talks for the general public on STEM and enterprising related topics by STEM companies and business experts regularly.
All workshops with be designed to encourage enterprise by taking people through product design processes and educate people on how to get their products on the market. This will include workshops on market research, finance, business planning, business registration, marketing & advertising, customer relations and networking. Some workshops will also highlight the available STEM careers and the skills required to for them.
The centre will be a support network of experts in both the STEM and enterprise fields for all businesses including start-ups. The STEEM centre will allow STEM related companies to use the centre for public engagement and outreach activities. This will allow children and the general public to understand what companies are in the area and the type of possible future STEM careers are available. Part of the centre will have to be a business support hub for all STEM related business to use for advice and guidance from experts in both STEM and business. Having this available support network will encourage youths to push forwards with their STEM business ideas. This will not only increase the economy of the future by creating new careers but encourage people to reach their true potential and get people back into work.
Aims & Objectives
To inspire more children into STEM careers and being enterprising by running related workshops and projects.
To provide training workshops and projects which encourage minority groups such as school dropouts and youth offenders to go into STEM careers and enterprise.
To have a support network of experts in the STEM and enterprising fields working together to help business start-ups succeed.
To provide a support network for STEM businesses for life to help businesses expand and keep up to date with technology advances.
To educate the public about STEM research, development, and related businesses in the UK.
Hull City Council and the Youth Enterprise Partnership have influenced the All-Party Group for Micro Businesses who have launched their fifth report since being established in 2010.
Entitled ‘An education system fit for an entrepreneur’, the report recognises the key role entrepreneurs play in the drive for growth, and looks at the effectiveness of the education system in supporting young entrepreneurs.
The report investigated, for the first time, best practice from primary schools that included the work of the £5 Blossom programme through to retirement with examples chosen from around the world and the UK. The report includes an examination of the cognitive psychology behind the entrepreneurial mindset, real case studies and up-to-date survey data.
Although the concept of enterprise education has been discussed since 1987, this is the first UK report which looks at the need for an overarching strategy across all government departments to deliver the support needed for entrepreneurs to flourish.
Ross Bennett, Chair Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership said:
“We were delighted to be involved in this report as it illustrates what we have achieved as a partnership over the last 10 years in particular through our primary enterprise programme, our well respected activities during Global Entrepreneurship Week, the city’s Youth Enterprise Bank and our Youth Enterprise Summit.
“More small businesses, creating more jobs are a vital part of a long-term plan for Hull and Britain’s future and young people are integral to that.”
Anne Marie Morris MP said:
“Enterprise education is crucially important if the growth agenda is to succeed. We need to create enquiring minds open to new ideas and able to spot opportunities. We also need to ensure education in entrepreneurship is available to all, not just those that make it to business school.
“Entrepreneurs emerge across the age range. I met a young lad of nine recently who had just set up his own business. As he put it “my teachers don’t get it”. Clearly many teachers do get it as our research shows but that support is not universally there – and it should not just be a matter of luck!
“I know the government is listening. But what we now need is to make real progress and set out concrete steps which I hope proposals from our report will provide the building blocks for.”
Professor Andy Penaluna, an author of the report said:
“What impressed us most were the education champions we met in Hull and the work of the city’s ‘Be enterprising’ group of teachers and tutors supported by Hull City Council which is linked to the aspirational City Plan.
“There is a clear energy amongst the educators that we met to engage with this important agenda, and they have evidenced the many creative ways that they have got things done – usually driven by the needs of their pupils and students via the use of ‘Big 13 Enterprise Skills’.
“The other remarkable thing was how many of the entrepreneurs echoed similar thoughts to those of the teachers, researchers and lecturers that we listened to over the past 14 months. Consequently a clear way forward has emerged.
“Now the debate can be less about what we need to do, but more directly concerned with ways in which we can implement these findings and to provide meaningful education that matches the needs of an innovative and entrepreneurial society.”
Entrepreneurs are a real strength of our British economy and the micro businesses they create are key drivers of growth.
Over the last three years, there have been 400,000 new businesses created and business start ups have become increasingly popular.
Small businesses add 48% to private sector turnover and comprise more than 99% by number of UK businesses.
There is a growing recognition that setting up your own business is a real opportunity and option for people.
Top ten recommendations to support Enterprise Education:
An overarching strategy by government looking at enterprise education from primary school to retirement needs to be established, based on clear opportunities at all levels of education and for work returners.
Clarity needs to be established as to what we mean by enterprise education and entrepreneurship education, both of which are crucially important but different.
Teacher training should be reviewed to give teachers a better basis for engaging with the business community for the benefit of students.
OFSTED assessments need to assess business engagement not just community engagement.
The Higher Education sector needs to provide a module on entrepreneurship. This should be made available to all students regardless of discipline and enterprise education needs, over time, to be integrated into all mainstream courses. UUK, HEFCE and associated bodies need to step forward and practically develop this.
A working group needs to be established across academe and business to put forward proposals for integrating work experience, education, mentoring and funding; the four strands which combine to deliver the best results when combined.
A working group also needs to be established to look quite separately at work returners and what support should be available to enable them to set up in business later on in life.
The business community should be incentivised and encouraged to be more actively involved in enterprise and entrepreneurship education through tax reliefs allowing time and expenses engaging in enterprise education to be set off against tax.
The Local Enterprise Partnerships should be required to have at least t wo board members from the SME community and at least one of these should be a micro business.
Government funding support to LEPS through the Regional Growth Fund and other government support schemes should require evidence before award of LEP engagement with enterprise education
Entitled ‘An education system fit for an entrepreneur’, the report recognises the key role entrepreneurs play in the drive for growth, and looks at the effectiveness of the education system in supporting young entrepreneurs.
The report investigated, for the first time, best practice from primary schools that included the work of the £5 Blossom programme through to retirement with examples chosen from around the world and the UK. The report includes an examination of the cognitive psychology behind the entrepreneurial mindset, real case studies and up-to-date survey data.
Although the concept of enterprise education has been discussed since 1987, this is the first UK report which looks at the need for an overarching strategy across all government departments to deliver the support needed for entrepreneurs to flourish.
Ross Bennett, Chair Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership said:
“We were delighted to be involved in this report as it illustrates what we have achieved as a partnership over the last 10 years in particular through our primary enterprise programme, our well respected activities during Global Entrepreneurship Week, the city’s Youth Enterprise Bank and our Youth Enterprise Summit.
“More small businesses, creating more jobs are a vital part of a long-term plan for Hull and Britain’s future and young people are integral to that.”
Anne Marie Morris MP said:
“Enterprise education is crucially important if the growth agenda is to succeed. We need to create enquiring minds open to new ideas and able to spot opportunities. We also need to ensure education in entrepreneurship is available to all, not just those that make it to business school.
“Entrepreneurs emerge across the age range. I met a young lad of nine recently who had just set up his own business. As he put it “my teachers don’t get it”. Clearly many teachers do get it as our research shows but that support is not universally there – and it should not just be a matter of luck!
“I know the government is listening. But what we now need is to make real progress and set out concrete steps which I hope proposals from our report will provide the building blocks for.”
Professor Andy Penaluna, an author of the report said:
“What impressed us most were the education champions we met in Hull and the work of the city’s ‘Be enterprising’ group of teachers and tutors supported by Hull City Council which is linked to the aspirational City Plan.
“There is a clear energy amongst the educators that we met to engage with this important agenda, and they have evidenced the many creative ways that they have got things done – usually driven by the needs of their pupils and students via the use of ‘Big 13 Enterprise Skills’.
“The other remarkable thing was how many of the entrepreneurs echoed similar thoughts to those of the teachers, researchers and lecturers that we listened to over the past 14 months. Consequently a clear way forward has emerged.
“Now the debate can be less about what we need to do, but more directly concerned with ways in which we can implement these findings and to provide meaningful education that matches the needs of an innovative and entrepreneurial society.”
Entrepreneurs are a real strength of our British economy and the micro businesses they create are key drivers of growth.
Over the last three years, there have been 400,000 new businesses created and business start ups have become increasingly popular.
Small businesses add 48% to private sector turnover and comprise more than 99% by number of UK businesses.
There is a growing recognition that setting up your own business is a real opportunity and option for people.
Top ten recommendations to support Enterprise Education:
An overarching strategy by government looking at enterprise education from primary school to retirement needs to be established, based on clear opportunities at all levels of education and for work returners.
Clarity needs to be established as to what we mean by enterprise education and entrepreneurship education, both of which are crucially important but different.
Teacher training should be reviewed to give teachers a better basis for engaging with the business community for the benefit of students.
OFSTED assessments need to assess business engagement not just community engagement.
The Higher Education sector needs to provide a module on entrepreneurship. This should be made available to all students regardless of discipline and enterprise education needs, over time, to be integrated into all mainstream courses. UUK, HEFCE and associated bodies need to step forward and practically develop this.
A working group needs to be established across academe and business to put forward proposals for integrating work experience, education, mentoring and funding; the four strands which combine to deliver the best results when combined.
A working group also needs to be established to look quite separately at work returners and what support should be available to enable them to set up in business later on in life.
The business community should be incentivised and encouraged to be more actively involved in enterprise and entrepreneurship education through tax reliefs allowing time and expenses engaging in enterprise education to be set off against tax.
The Local Enterprise Partnerships should be required to have at least t wo board members from the SME community and at least one of these should be a micro business.
Government funding support to LEPS through the Regional Growth Fund and other government support schemes should require evidence before award of LEP engagement with enterprise education
Monday 14 July 2014
Hull Youth Enterprise Awrds 2014
Nominations are now open for a series of awards to recognise Hull's enterprising schools and businesses organised by Hull City Council, in partnership with the Youth Enterprise Bank. Award categories include 'Most Enterprising School', 'Most Enterprising Teacher’ and ‘Special Enterprise Award’ including the Sheila Waudby Young Entrepreneur of Year Award, and are sponsored by local businesses and organisations from across the city. This year's award winners will be announced in Global Entrepreneurship Week at the Guildhall in November.
Stephen Logan, Assistant Headteacher at Malet Lambert School and Chair of Hulls Be Enterprising Group, won the Lee Creamer Youth Enterprise Award last year.
He said:” It was a great honour last year to be announced as the recipient of the Lee Creamer Youth Enterprise Award and that my own school Malet Lambert was named as the city's Most Enterprising Secondary School.
"I am pleased that this year the awards will go ahead thanks to the support of Hull City Council and individual sponsors. There is no doubt that Hull as a city has real commitment through the Youth Enterprise Partnership to develop the enterprising skills of young people, as part of its Making Changes for Careers programme. With the right support and encouragement Hull's young people are truly enterprising, and whilst not all will pursue an entrepreneurial career in the future, the majority of them will most certainly use their skills to help impact their outlook on life and in the workplace."
Photographer Tom Arran was honoured with Young Entrepreneur last year and thoroughly enjoyed the experience, he said: "For three years my photography business has had support from the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership in the work that we are doing.
“We are proud to be associated with them, especially during Global Entrepreneurship Week and Business Week.
"I was really pleased to accept the title of Young Entrepreneur Year 2013 from the inspirational entrepreneur Ruth Badger and I look forward to helping identify the winner this year to represent Hull.'
Councillor Rosie Nicola, Portfolio Holder for Learning Skills and Safeguarding Children, said: “I look forward to welcoming the nominations for these awards from across the city as we look to develop Hull’s entrepreneurial culture amongst its young people.
“Hull City Council in partnership with the Youth Enterprise Bank is committed to supporting its enterprising young people and we are more than aware that the young people of this city are our future, and we want them to move forward in life equipped with the right skills to build successful careers.”
Patron of the scheme, BBC Apprentice star and business woman Claire Young applauded the city in its commitment to young people.
She said: "It is always a pleasure and a privilege to support Hull in the way it backs its enterprising young people.
"Your city certainly believes in putting its energies behind its young people and not just paying lip service to enterprise. The work that partners are doing in your city is absolutely brilliant.
“I look forward to helping identify this year's winners of your Youth Enterprise Awards with my fellow patrons."
The deadline for completed entry forms will be Monday, September 1 and judging will be completed by Monday, September 15. Winners will be invited to receive their award at the celebration event on Friday, November 21 at the Guildhall from Diana Johnson MP as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. The winning schools will receive an engraved plaque and £200 to further develop enterprise activity. Nomination forms are available from charles.cracknell@hullcc.gov.uk or by calling 01482 300 300.
Full list of awards:
1) Most enterprising Primary School in Hull 2014
2) Most enterprising Secondary School in Hull 2014
3) The business that has done the most to promote an enterprise culture in the city 2014
4) Young Entrepreneur Year 2014
5) Most Enterprising teacher 2014
6) John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Award
7) Lee Creamer Youth Enterprise Leadership Award
8) Teen Entrepreneur Year 2014
Sunday 13 July 2014
Results 2014 attitude survey into youth enterprise in Hull
In a survey, relating to enterprise education and entrepreneurship in Hull of a group of current and potential young entrepreneurs, enterprising young people, teachers and those working with young people the following was stated:-
90% thought the Youth Enterprise summit held in Business Week was an excellent event showcasing Hull as a place that supports it's enterprising young people.
55% of young entrepreneurs said they would support a network group of young people that could mentor each other and trade with each other.
75% said Hull was implementing the Lord Young Review already indeed 70% said what was already happening in Hull was better than what was proposed in the review
80% said they welcomed the work of Hull City Council and the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership in supporting enterprise education and youth entrepreneurship in the City.
85% of young entrepreneurs said they would like to see the establishment of youth enterprise incubator space for potential young entrepreneurs
85% of young entrepreneurs said they would like to see the establishment of youth enterprise incubator space for potential young entrepreneurs
90% of young entrepreneurs said they would like to see a youth enterprise zone in the City and see a place were young entrepreneurs could sell their products and services.
75% of teachers & pupils valued the activities and events held in a Global Entrepreneurship Week in Hull as they raise the profile and outlines the importance of enterprise skills
75% of teachers & pupils valued the activities and events held in a Global Entrepreneurship Week in Hull as they raise the profile and outlines the importance of enterprise skills
75% of teachers thought the work of the Be Enterprising Group was essential in helping the City to teach and support the development of enterprise skills in schools, colleges and training providers.
95% of primary teachers thought that £5 Blossom and the Hull Ready Programme were essential in developing and supporting teachers, pupils and parents in developing their enterprise skills.
75% of respondents welcomed the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge as a practical programme that enables young people to illustrate their enterprise skills and business ideas.
85% of young entrepreneurs said a peer to peer mentor group was key to encouraging more young people to consider going into business.
75% of respondents welcomed the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge as a practical programme that enables young people to illustrate their enterprise skills and business ideas.
85% of young entrepreneurs said a peer to peer mentor group was key to encouraging more young people to consider going into business.
75% of pupils wanted young entrepreneurs more than any other group to help them understand and setting up a business and wanted to know there enterprise journeys.
20% of young entrepreneurs said the support they currently got was very poor or poor that they received as they felt the advisers had no empathy
20% of young entrepreneurs said the support they currently got was very poor or poor that they received as they felt the advisers had no empathy
85% of potential and current entrepreneurs felt that finance and mentor support was essential to help them to develop their business idea and 90% thought the youth enterprise bank was an excellent initiative that delivers this
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