Bronwyn Wilson Qualifies in Bookeeping

Determined to understand the financial side of business, young entrepreneur Bronwyn Wilson, 16, has become the youngest person in the UK to successfully complete the new Level 2 IAB/Sage Computerised Accounting for Business QCF qualification. The training was delivered by Golding Computer Services, an IAB (International Association of Bookkeepers) Accredited Training Centre.

Bronwyn Wilson said
“From having no experience of accounts I now have the knowledge to run the financial side of my business and the confidence to take Crazy Critter World to another level. I can’t believe how easy it is to use the Sage Accounts program to keep track of my finances.”


Charles Cracknell, Youth Enterprise Manager at Hull Training, commented, “Hull Training and the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank were pleased to support this project and I am delighted that Bronwyn has achieved this qualification. Financial training for young entrepreneurs is often not available and this is an innovative way of equipping them for the future.”

Vic Golding said, “It is a major achievement for Bronwyn to attain a Level 2 QCF qualification at the age of 16, as the Government target is to achieve a Level 2 qualification by the age of 19!”

Hull’s Young Entrepreneur of Year 2011

Claughtons. Hull Training and the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank, the organisers of Hull Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011, are pleased to announce that from a shortlist of nine young people west Hull based entrepreneur Bronwyn Wilson (16) was announced by Gerard Toplass Managing Director of Claughton’s as Hull’s Young Entrepreneur of Year 2011 at the end of week Global entrepreneurship week 2011 celebration held at Staff House.

Gerard Toplass, Managing Director of Claughtons said:
"I chose to sponsor this award, because I am personally very committed to helping young entrepreneurs deliver on their potential. I feel that very often we identify potential but then don't follow through sufficiently, therefore, unlike normal award schemes where the winners receive recognition and a glass trophy; I wanted to give the winner some real tangible help. All the shortlisted candidates were excellent, though at the end of the day we had to choose a winner and Bronwyn is a worthy one."


Bronwyn Wilson MD Crazy Critter World said
“I am honored to be selected to be Hull’s Young Entrepreneur of Year 2011 following in the footsteps of Dave Garbera and Amanda Hartley, I am looking forward to working with Gerard and his team at Claughton’s as well as promoting the entrepreneurial dream to the young people of Hull as well as promoting all the great work that goes on in the city of Hull such as the Badgers sett Enterprise Challenge that I won last year.”


Councilor Steven Bayes, Portfolio Holder for Economic Regeneration & Employment said:
“Bronwyn will now act as the City's Youth Enterprise Ambassador for 12 months and will be invited to participate in a range of business and enterprise activities as well as speaking at events in Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011, she is a real credit to the city and I am looking forward to hearing more about her work in the future.”

"It is great news that Gerard Toplass and Claughtons are prepared to invest nearly £20,000 work of support over a year in supporting Bronwyn as Hull's Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 and clearly shows their commitment to supporting the City's enterprising young people. This is putting CSR into practice whilst also helping our enterprising young people”



NB
1. Claughtons have created the following package worth up to £20,000 to the young person and their business:
* Rent Free of Charge for 12 months at their offices in Melton

* Support towards their marketing campaign

* Full access to senior management at Claughtons for mentoring / support / assistance

* Gerard Toplass, Managing Director at Claughtons, will act as a non-executive Director / Chairman to provide assistance to the winning company

2. John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank will give her during the year £500 towards her business and give her opportunities to promote her work both locally and nationally.

Secondary Schools GEW 2011 in Hull

Young people from Hull secondary schools attended an Entrepreneurship Masterclass and pupils from Hessle High School. The Masterclass is designed to challenge young people to think about starting their own business as a career and becoming an entrepreneur. This is achieved by introducing the young people to local role models, as well as inspiring them through presentations, activities and discussion centred on their own life experiences, vision and achievements. The event began with a welcome by BBC presenter Blair Jacobs who outlined what the event was about and talked about the importance young people play in the future of the city of Hull. As an ice breaker the students had to build a free standing tower out of string, spaghetti and tape and place marshmallow on the top the winning team were given a small prize from Hull Ready.The first inspiration of the day was provided by the day’s main guest speaker, international business woman and runner up in the BBC Apprentice series Ruth Badger who focused on the importance of having the right attitude in business and in life. During her presentation Ruth praised the city’s young people for their enterprising attitudes, in particular those that she had met whilst judging the Badger’s Sett Enterprise Challenge the night before.

As proof of this, the young people then heard from a variety of young local entrepreneurs including Hull’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 Amanda Hartley of Amanda’s Blue Orchid, Ethan Gibson Impression 11 who set up business whilst still at College and Phil Benson of Xing Health told how discovering ‘smoothies’ had provided the inspiration to develop their business. All of these young entrepreneurs had received funding for their businesses from the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank.

By the afternoon, it was time to put some of the ideas from the morning’s presentations into practice. They were asked to develop a marketing concept for a random object given to them and to pitch this to the Badger’s Sett. Each group had 45 minutes to come up with the name of the product, the retail cost and suitable marketing material. It was then time to present to panel chair Ruth Badger and her fellow judges




The Badger’s Sett judges were:

Nick Hildyard Joint MD Arco
Sarah Longthorn  Founder Wedgewelly
Phil Vozza Managing Director NPS Humber
Ruth Badger
Cllr Helene O'Mullane Portfolio Holder Children Services
Richard Duxbury, Deputy Managing Director, Mail News & Media

Six teams were identified to present to the Badger’s Sett, with Ruth and her Badgers giving each team a real grilling before retiring to make their deliberations. Top of the pile came Olympic Fan Band from Hessle High School who won £500 donated by Arco. Second place, and £250 courtesy of NPS- Humber went to Dynamic Ring – Malet Lambert School whilst behind them came Ear Sport Probe from Andrew Marvell Business Enterprise College who won £150 donated by Hull FC Foundation Fourth and fifth spots went to Mexi wave from Trinity House School and Your Olympic Dream from Newland High School for Girls respectively, with i Blah of St Mary’s College taking sixth place. These three prizes of £100 worth of vouchers were donated by Tigers Trust, Force-7 and the University of Hull.

At the end of the event, all teachers, students and business volunteers were asked to complete an evaluation, the results of which clearly showed that the event had been a success. Teachers in particular felt that the event had significantly developed students’ enterprise capabilities as set out in Hull’s Big 13 Enterprise Skills.

Supporter Perspectives of GEW 2011 in Hull

“Being an entrepreneur can be daunting, exciting, exhausting and, if you’re successful, rewarding in equal measure. The excellent programme at the Global Entrepreneurship Week 211 in Hull  gave young people the information and inspiration to make their journey less daunting and more likely to succeed.” Richard Myers
MD HWS Hosting
“Mail News & Media was once again proud to be a major supporter of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Encouraging young people to be innovative, creative and passionate, whilst providing them with the skills and understanding of running a business is key to a talented and ambitious future workforce.”
Rachael Austin
Mail News and Media

I strongly believe that such events held in Global Entrepreneurship Week not only help to foster an entrepreneurial spirit amongst all young people but also encourage school and college leavers to acquire the necessary skills to make them attractive propositions to a future employer.”

Nicholas Hildyard DL FCA
Joint Managing Director, Arco Ltd

“I wish to congratulate Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership, and all the young people who took part in yet another successful Global Entrepreneurship Week. It is very exciting to know that young people are getting opportunities such as this, which will help build their skills and confidence for a bright future.”
Di Garbera
Golding Computer Services Ltd
“More than anything young people need to have aspirations which come from inspirational leadership. Global Entrepreneurship Week exposes them to some great leaders and encourages them to stand on others’ shoulders to be able to look further, I was sorry to miss it this year but followed the activities via twitter, facebook and youtube.”
Dave Garbera
Managing Director, KH Smilers Ltd and Garbera Enterprise Ltd

“The East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire Co-operative Committee was delighted to support this exciting initiative. The Society and its family of businesses have a long association with enterprise around the world and hopes that Global Entrepreneurship Week in Hull will go onto to inspire young people to become more enterprising, especially next year which is International Year of Co-operation – I fully enjoyed my time in Hull at the primary event.”
Suzanne Moulson
Vice Chair East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire Co-operative Committee
“Global Entrepreneurship Week is an excellent opportunity to showcase just how enterprising young people are in the region. What is fantastic about Hull City Council’s approach to the week is to celebrate and promote enterprise for young people from every walk of life and from any age.”
Jane Walton
Policy Director
YES Ltd
“I love visiting Hull as it is an enterprising city. I really enjoy sharing my journey with young budding entrepreneurs who really want to make a difference in the business world. I hope my visit helps to encourage the next breed of business success that the city boast and I am looking forward to coming back to Hull in the near future.”
Ruth Badger
International Business Consultant
“I was extremely honoured to be invited back for a second year to take part in Hull’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, and I am very impressed with the work that takes place in Hull  and the city’s vision for young people in your area! I enjoyed last year so much that as soon as I was approached about this year’ celebrations I said ‘yes’ straight away and I have enjoyed the event that I have participated in.
Claire Young

“We have been involved with youth enterprise in Hull for the past four years and are really impressed with everything that the team does. There are lots of different opportunities available for young people in Hull and we decided that this year we wanted yet again be a major sponsor of Global Entrepreneurship Week in the city and to commit our support for the next two years, as St. Stephen’s are committed to helping our local economy grow and prosper for the benefit of our young people.”
Jim Harris
Manager, St Stephen’s Centre
“Global Entrepreneurship Week is one of the most important date in Hull’s economic development diary. It is a celebration about everything that is fresh, energetic, creative and vital that underpins ‘enterprise’, a word that is central to Hull’s economic strategy – there is no doubt that Global Entrepreneurship Week 211 was truly inspiring.”
Mark Jones
Head of Economic Development and Regeneration,
Hull City Council

“This was the first time Wedgewelly has taken part fully  in Global Entrepreneurship Week and we didn’t know what to expect. We needn’t have worried as it was a fabulous week and we thoroughly enjoyed every minute. It was eye opening to see how enterprising the young people of Hull are and it was a pleasure to be involved with them all. I would encourage other businesses to support these events and to assist in any way they can. This is definitely the way forward for Hull as these young people are our future entrepreneurs and supporting them makes business sense. We look forward to participating in other events throughout next year and Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012 is on our calendar!”
Sarah Longthorn
Owner, Wedgewelly

“Durban Ltd has been proud to work alongside Hull Youth Enterprise for this year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week. Having been a supporter of the event over the past seven years. It has been inspiring to hear about the enterprising activities that young people of our city have been passionately working on. It’s important to give these children real insight and practical skills for all aspects of working in and running a business. Hull has become a vibrant city and it’s important we encourage and promote entrepreneurship.”
Maureen Foers
Managing Director, Durban Ltd

“This was the first year I have attended Global Entrepreneurship Week in Hull all the young people had great ideas and spoke with such confidence. You could tell that it was a change from being at school and that the teams enjoyed the opportunity to think outside the box and put the things they learn everyday in the classroom into practice and challenging the invited audience to be enterprisuing”
Louis Coiffait,
Pearson Centre for Policy and Learning
This was the first year I have attended Global Entrepreneurship Week and was very impressed with what I saw and soon realised I was not the only young entrepreneur in Hull striving to develop a business. I understand that promoting the economic well-being and increasing skills and educational attainment are the twin aims for the city over the next en years. There is doubt in my mind we will achieve this through activities that take place every day of the week that are than celebrated in Global Entrepreneurship Week, I am looking forward to next years activities already.”
Josh Wilson,
Owner Heista Fuels

“ I was sorry to have missed this years events in Global Entrepreneurship Week in Hull but I was called away on business however I kept up-todate on what was happening during the week and look forward to coming back next year. Hull is an inspirational place and its young people are the most inspirational of them all.”
Abhimanyu Kundasamy,
His Excellency The High Commissioner of Mauritius

GEW 2011 Celebration Event - Hull

At Hull's GEW celebration evening theld on Friday 18th November at Staff House at the University of Hull we raised over £600 in an auction for signed shirts from HKR, Hull FC and Hull City AFC, and with the Hull City Shirt came two executive seats for Hull City v Millwall match donated by Gerard Toplass. Over £500 was raised in the raffle and over £300 for the table decorations all of which will go to the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank.
Awards were presented by Cllr Danny Brown Deputy Lord Mayor to William Jacksons Food Group, NPS Humber, Claughtons, The Co-operative, Xuro Computers, City Works, Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce , KC , Hull FC Act the Facts for supporting Hull’s enterprising young people.

Also the following were awarded


Hull’s most enterprising teacher – Stephen Logan of Malet Lambert School
Hull’s most enterprising school – Victoria Dock
Hull business done most to support enterprise education in Hull HWS Hosting

Finally Gerard Toplass of Claughtons presented to Bronwyn Wilson the title of Hulll’s Young Entrepreneur of Year 2011.

On a final not a big thank you to all of those who helped and supported us during and before the week especially the young entreprenurs Ruth Badger, Claire Young and Sarah Longthorn. We are looking at what we might do next year so if you have any ideas let me know and if you want to play an active part in helping the organising committee let me know as we need people who are prepared to go that extra mile as maybe we are running out of steam a little and we need to improve our commitment and support to our young people. Ring 01482-612983

Winners Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge

During Global Entrepreneurship Week 2010 young people from Hull pitched their business ideas to former BBC Apprentice star Ruth Badger. Young people from across the city entered the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge under four different categories and the winners pitched their idea for the chance to double their winnings from the first round.


The competition had over 2,500 hits on the website www.hullbadgers.co.uk, which resulted in 78 enquiries, 36 entries and 16 projects that were shortlisted to 'pitch' to the judges. 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 and sponsorship deals before the final.
The six finalists were
Under 11's section Tree Huggers Production from Griffin Primary and the Toast Bar from Longhill Primary in East Hull

11 - 16 year old section The Green Queen's and East Hull Urban Arts from Malet Lambert from East Hull
16 - 18 year old section Oliver Wilson (Hull Training Apprentice) and Andy Selby (President of Students Union at Wilberforce College) of Xuro Computers of East Hull (both ex pupils of Malet Lambert)
19 - 21 year old section Ethan Gibson Impression 11 of West Hull

The final judging panel took place on Thursday 17th November and Ruth Badger was joined by Debbie Page and Gerard Toplass of Claughtons, Andrew Peterson KC Head of Marketing & Propositions, Bronwyn Wilson of Crazy Critter World Phil Batty, Managing Director of Force-7 and Sarah Longthorn, Founder of Wedge Welly,

Toast Bar from Longhill Primary gained a commendation for the second year running with their business idea and secured advice and support from Debbie Page of Claughtons to source the white goods they need and Hull training are giving them a free course in Health and Safety.

The overall winner was the Green Queens from Malet Lambert School who first got involved in enterprise in Global Entrepreneurship Week last year and though they did not win continued seeking support and developing their ideas who overall secured £600 investment into their enterprise project and the chance to develop it further with support from Hull Training and the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank. At the same time.

Andy Selby secured a Free book keeping course worth £350 from Goldings and a Business mentoring session with Ruth Badger in her office in Manchester.

Ethan Gibson secured a Free book keeping course worth £350 from Goldings

On Friday 18th November both winners were invited to the Secondary Day in Global Entreprenurship Week to get their winnings from the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge.

Ruth Badger with Longhill Toast Bar

Post 16 Apprentice Day - GEW Hull

170 sixteen to eighteen year olds on a range of post 16 educational programmes in Hull attended this inspirational day at Staff House at the University of Hull. Inspiration was provided by a number of guest speakers who all gave personal reflections on their own unique journeys and the lessons that each had learnt from them. The highlight of which was international business guru Ruth Badger, who had featured prominently in the BBC Apprentice series.
There were keynote addresses from three widely different local entrepreneurs. Hull’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 Amanda Hartley told the young people how she had realised her dream of opening a florists only a couple of years after leaving school, defying some people who said she was too young and that the business would not survive the recession. while Phil Benson of Xing Health spoke about the development of his business, including the initial impulse to set up following a visit to America and on to the present with their opening of a Xing shop in the heart of the Shambles in York and their new school programme, he also said they hoped to open a Smoothie Bar in partnership with pupils from Malet Lambert School next year.

The young people then moved from the theoretical to the practical, working in teams to complete the Badger’s Sett activity. Each team was set the challenge of coming up with a marketing concept for a product or service using an object placed on each group’s table as inspiration. Each group then had 45 minutes to come up with the name of the product, the retail cost and suitable marketing material, all of which had to be linked to the Olympic Games 2012.
They were then thrown into the Badger’s Sett, meaning they had to give a dynamic four -minute presentation to a panel of senior heads of local organisations. Also 1 person from each team was allowed to make a 1 minute pitch to camera

The ‘Badgers’ were:

1 Ruth Badger
2 Judy Ward, Marketing Director, Mail News & Media
3 Jonathan Leafe Managing Director Strawberry
4 Martin Shaw Managing Directors, D3 Office Group

The Winners

• First Prize £500 donated by William Jacksons went to Centre Flag from Hull College
• Second Prize £250 donated by Hull College went to Light of Champions of Hull College
• Third Prize £150 donated by St Stephen’s went to Talk Torch of St Mary’s College
• Fourth Prize £100 worth of vouchers donated by NPS Humber Hull Posh Screen Tec from Hull Training,
  also each member got £10 in vouchers for their overall team work
• Fifth Prize £100donated by Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce went to Essential Box from Hull
  College
• Sixth Prize £100 donated by Lynne Hope Communications went to Celebrating the Word – Enterprise
  Club at the University of Hull
• Seventh Prize £100 donated by Ruth Badger Consultancy went to Photo Frames of Construction Centre at
  Hull Training
• Video Pitch winner donated by Hull Training £10 voucher for each team member went to St Mary’s
   College

Ruth Badger said

“I told the young people how important they are – they are the Next business generation. They need to believe in themselves and actually get out there and do something and they certainly showed their entrepreneurial skills when they faced the judges at this event just like in Wolverhampton were I was born, Manchester were I work Hull should be proud of its young people as they are truly enterprising.”

GEW 2011 Day 3 ‘Our City – The Mail at the heart of it’

The day was titled ‘Our City – The Mail at the heart of it’. It was facilitated by popular BBC presenter Blair Jacobs and representatives of the Hull Daily Mail. The pupils were treated to a warm welcome from Councillor Colin Inglis, The Right Worshipful the Lord Mayor of Kingston upon Hull and Admiral of the Humber in his chains and robes of office. At the start of the day Jamie Macaskill, Assistant Editor at Mail News and Media set the scene by informing the young people about the role of the local newspaper in the community before a group of students from Hull College played out short scenes written for the day by local playwright Kate Brenan of Act the Facts about how reporters gather news and develop advertising content for the Hull Daily Mail.

During the day pupils attended a press conference relating to a big local news story which was about a visit to Hull by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge or to everyone in the audience Wills and Kate. The pupils got to play the role of journalists by listening and asking questions real life journalists in order to help them write a story for the Hull Daily Mail.

Pupils also had to speak to local business owners who would like to advertise in the Hull Daily Mail, as part of this the pupils learnt how to question a business for the right information to create an advert. The pupils than went on to take the news and advertising content they had gathered and had to write a news story or design an advert that would appear in the Hull Daily Mail.

After lunch the pupils learnt about how the editorial content gets onto the newspaper page and on the website and how the adverts get onto the newspaper page and on the website. They than went on to learn how we get the newspaper into the shops and delivered to homes, whilst understanding what makes people buy a newspaper.





Certificates / Awards were given out by Jamie Macaskill, Assistant Editor at Mail News and Media for:

1. Most Creative Story £500 Cash and Vouchers donated by the Co-operative went to the team from Broadacre Primary

2. Best Headline £250 Cash and Vouchers donated by Malet Lambert School went to the team from Griffin Primary

3. Most Creative Advert £150 Cash and Vouchers donated by Andrew Marvell School went to the team from Neasden Primary

4. Teamwork Award £100 Cash and Vouchers donated by Hertz Web Solutions went to the team from Greenway Primary

5. Best Journalist £100 Cash and Vouchers donated by KH Smilers went to the team from Gillshill Primary

6. Team that most used the 13 Enterprise Skills £100 Cash and Vouchers donated by Hull Ready went to the team from Victoria Dock Primary
Pupil Comments

Today has been absolutely great! I have enjoyed everything that has happened today especially when we had to write our very own report in a group ( reporters and advertising. I I haven’t got anything that I do not like about Hull University I like everything. The decorations are really pretty and are nicely set out.
Megan 10, Victoria Dock Primary school

Today I had a lot of fun. We had to write a news report and that was a lot of fun. I enjoyed working as a team and asking questions! My favourite part watching the report being edited.”
Lucy 11, Mountbatten Primary school

I am a pupil from Appleton, I had a once in a lifetime trip to Hull University. However the journey was tiring, I knew it was all going to be worth it. My favourite part was when me and the rest wrote a report. I think we should have won.
Nathan 10, Appleton Primary

I experienced the way work together in a team and the event I loved was planning the advert but you couldn’t change anything. I enjoyed it all.”
Libby 10, Gillshill Primary School

I’ve enjoyed the dinner and also when we made a newspaper
Ahmed 9, Broadacre Primary School

“It has helped the children to deal with high pressure situations; all of them from Broadacre Primary really enjoyed it and we will put the vouchers and money we won for coming first to good use thank you and we are looking forward to next year.”
Suzanne Moulson, Broadacre Primary School

Business Volunteer and Supporter Comments

“Brilliant job as usual! I was very impressed with how the young people responded so positively and confidently and produced great work throughout the day.”
Kate Brennan, Act the Facts

“The children seemed to really enjoy the day, and seem to gained an insight into how a newspaper works and that it is there to make money as well as serving its local community.”
Mike Notarantonio, Hull Ready Project Officer

Hull Ready Third Anniversary Celebration GEW 2011

This event saw primary school pupils, teachers, business people, educationalists and local councillors all come together to celebrate the second year of the whole Hull Ready programme and hear how successful our young people had been in Making £5 Blossom. This programme aims to raise awareness of enterprise in schools in a practical and engaging way, both with teachers and pupils. Popular BBC presenter Blair Jacobs hosted the third anniversary of the Hull Ready event. Initially, a group of children from four of the schools (Victoria Dock, Thorpepark, Gillshill and Longhill) which had already been involved with the Make £5 Blossom project showcased their skills to the 100 strong audience of opinion formers in the city, telling them in detail what each had done with the £150 loans provided by their local business partners.

In the true spirit of Entrepreneurship Week the tables were then turned on the adults to do a bit of work and they were set a task by pupils from Longhill Primary School to see how each table could work as a team in building a “paper” raft and each one was than floated in a fish tank as the pupils from Longhill added weights to see how secure the raft was and to see how many of the 13 Enterprise skills they could use. The adults clearly demonstrated a number of the required skills and the winners overall were table Eight that had representatives from Hull College, NPS-Humber, Heista Fuels, Hull City council, CEI University of Warwick and Mally Welburn their raft managed to survive with 8 weights added to it before it sank.

Other Highlights

Claire Young gave a witty and informative presentation about her life and experience in the BBC Series The Apprentice. She also praised the city’s efforts in supporting its enterprising young people and commented how much she had enjoyed listening to the young people’s presentations. Claire also outlined her new enterprise support programme TeenBiz www.teenbiz.org.uk the UK’s first national business start up scheme for under 18s and thanked Hull Training for supporting it.

Hull born social entrepreneur and charity worker Danielle Welburn outlined how her business Build Life wants to enable 18-25 year olds in developed countries to work together to improve their communities with young people from Hull, she told the audience how she set it up after seeing women sleeping under bushes with their children and children selling fuel in plastic bottles in Cambodia

Louis Coiffait Policy Manager Pearson Centre for Policy and Learning gave a presentation on the work that they were doing in partnership with the Education & Employers Taskforce, exploring enterprise and entrepreneurship education and its contribution to developing an enterprising society. He went on to congratulate Hull on the work it is doing in supporting its enterprising young people.

Business and Teacher Comments
“I thoroughly enjoyed the event. It was great to see so many local businesses give their time and money so freely in aid of such an innovative programme of events. The scariest moment was when we had to show how enterprising our table was and guess what our boat soon sank and we had an engineer on our table!!!.
June Sharp
City Works

“It was a great event and it was particularly pleasing to see that the young people from all the schools involved in Hull Ready had really enjoyed themselves and learnt a lot about enterprise.”
Kenton Robins,
Institute of Directors


“I thought the children who represented their schools at the Hull Ready celebration were absolutely fantastic, and I am sure that all the adults who attended the event were blown away by the confidence and ability shown by the children who took to the stage to present.”
Ruth Truelove, St Stephens

Malet Lambert - Environmental Enterprise Challenge

100 twelve and thirteen year olds from Malet Lambert School in East Hull took part in the Hull Environmental Enterprise Challenge in the traditional and historic setting of the Guildhall. The students were given a secret brief to come up with a business idea and then promote this to a group of judges chaired by Claire Young. Students chosen for the activity were from a variety of abilities but had already demonstrated enterprising skills by showing a positive attitude, punctuality and good attendance in school. As an ice breaker the students had to build a free standing tower out of string, spaghetti and tape and place marshmallow on the top the winning team were given a small prize from Hull Ready.

Working in groups of five, students had to decide on roles including managing director, finance, IT, marketing & PR as they had to take on the role of top-flight marketing consultants to design an App for an I Phone in order to promote Hull and encourage people to be environmentally friendly?

At the start of the challenge the students were told about how smart phones and tablets are now common place in society with many people owning some type of handheld device and that it is said there is an app for everything. From news to weather, business to pleasure. Apps allow people to have instant access to array of information or entertain at a touch of a button. As the students developed their concepts the Judges were looking at the App and concept the students came up with as well looking at how each team used the ‘Big 13’ enterprise skills

Students then had to explain their idea, design a marketing campaign, calculate the cost of both making the product and selling it and finally, identify a target market. Following these deliberations, and most challenging of all, they had to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges from local organisations.

Eight teams presented their ideas to the judges. The teams were as follows:



1 Amazing Applet
2 Saucy Jelly fish
3 Slaz
4 MLGEW (Ecolympics)
5 Enviro Girls
6 KAHOM
7 Future
8 Five stars


The Judges

Kenton Robins, the Institute of Directors
Councillor Helene O'Mullane, Portfolio Holder, Children's Services
Jim Harris Centre Manager, St Stephen’s Shopping Centre
Vanessa Harvey-Samuel Head of Localities & Learning, CYPS Hull City Council
Andrew Morton – Account Director Footprint Renewables
Claire Young – Chair of Judges

The eight top teams were awarded a range of vouchers from popular High Street stores. These were sponsored by NPS- Humber, Hull Training, the Co-operative Group, St Stephen’s, City Works, KC, Force-7 and Rotherham Ready. After much deliberation and discussion the winning team was announced. The team were Future who won £400 worth of vouchers as they were considered to have fulfilled all elements of the brief as well as giving an excellent presentation, MLGEW (Ecolympics) came second and won £200 worth of vouchers with KAHOM coming third winning £150 in vouchers, than 3 teams Enviro Girls, Amazing Applet and Slaz winning £100 in vouchers each and Five Stars and Saucy Jelly Fish won 350 in vouchers each

At the end of the event, all teachers, students and business volunteers were asked to complete an evaluation, the results of which clearly showed that the event had been a success. Teachers in particular felt that the event had significantly developed students’ enterprise capabilities as set out in Hull’s Big 13 Enterprise Skills. The winner of £20 in vouchers at this event for completing the evaluation was Megan who wrote “I liked designing our App. It was a good activity to show our creativity skills. I didn’t like the spaghetti challenge because our tower kept falling over. Also our speech was good bit I was shaking because I was nervous”

Thanks also to Mike, Graham, Colin, Blair, Stephen and his colleagues, Blair all the judges and all the young people who took part.

Hull awarded High Impact Badge of Honour for GEW 2011

As we approach the start of Global Entrepreneurship Week, Hull's events have met the High Impact Criteria set by Youth Business International who are running GEW 2011 in the UK for the second year running and we have had awarded the prestigious ‘High Impact Badge of Honour’. We are able to use the enclosed badge of honour which is certainly good news for Hull.

We are awarded this in order to maximise awareness of our high quality contribution to Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011, and they have invited us to place the Badge of Honour on our various websites

If you haven't already, then we would also love you to join their national conversation online. Share our excellent news in Hull by tweeting "proud to be part of #GEW and the host of a #HighImpact event".

http://www.gew.org.uk/

http://www.youthenterprise.co.uk/

Lee Creamer Youth Enterprise Club

To-day saw the official setting up of a new youth enterprise club in Hull which is named after the late Lee Creamer of City Works who passed away a year ago, Lee was a supporter of the City’s enterprising young people as well as helping many young people in his varied job roles to back into work. The club will provide young people with a place to exchange skills, make contacts, share experiences, receive support and encouragement to work through their enterprising ideas. The Club early next year will also be looking to run workshops on helping young people set up in business as well.


All the young people who get involved in the Lee Creamer Youth Enterprise Club will also be able to apply for a grant from the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank if they are aged 21 and under that live in Hull and the East Riding www.youthenterprise.co.uk . This club is part of the national network of Enterprise Clubs which along with the Enterprise Allowance (NEA) are two of the Get Britain Working measures introduced by Jobcentre Plus to support young people aged 21 and under who are out of work and are considering starting their own business or becoming self employed.

To find out about Lee Creamer Youth Enterprise Club ring 01482 612983

Hull’s Finalists for Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge

With just a week to go till Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011 young people in Hull have been gearing up to pitch their business ideas to former Apprentice star Ruth Badger. Young people from across the city entered the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge under four different categories and the winners will now go on to pitch their idea for the chance to win their share of £5000.


These are:

Under 11 section - two teams Tree Huggers Production from Griffin Primary and the Toast Bar from Longhill Primary in East Hull each won £250 investment for their enterprising ideas

The 11yr - 16yr section - The Green Queen’s and East Hull Urban Arts from Malet Lambert from East Hull each won £300 investment for their enterprising ideas

16yr - 18yr section Oliver Wilson and Andy Selby of Xuro Computers of East Hull won £500 investment for their business

19 yr - 21yr section Ethan Gibson Impression 11 of West Hull won £850 investment for his business

Ruth Badger, said:

" Last year was the first for the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge and I was really impressed with the talent that Hull has and over the last year Sarah Longthorn and I have enjoyed supporting the winner in 2010 Bronwyn Wilson a truly enterprising young person and I have high hopes again of this years finalists.
I love been involved in supporting Hull’s enterprising young people, there is no doubt in my mind Hull 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.”
Sarah Longthorn Founder of Wedgewelly said
“Last year when I was asked to be a judge I did not know what to expect, and I was amazed at the confidence and determination to succeed showed by the young people and am looking forward to judging this years finalists.


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 sponsorship deals from Hull Training and the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank. The competition is organised by Hull Training in partnership with the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank and HWS Hosting this year the competitions supporting website www.hullbadgers.co.uk had over 2,500 hits on the website www.hullbadgers.co.uk, which resulted in 78 enquiries, 36 entries and 16 projects that were shortlisted to 'pitch' to the judges.
The final judging panel will take place on Thursday 18 November at staff House at the University of Hull and Ruth Badger will be joined by Gerard Toplass MD Claughtons, Ruth Badger, Sarah Longthorn Founder of Wedgewelly, Richard Tuplin Institute of Directors, Phil Batty MD Force-7 and Andrew Peterson KC Head of Marketing & Propositions

Hull's Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge 11- 16 Year Olds

Former President of the Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce Carolynn Burges Chief Executive at Language is Everything Ltd , Graham Henderson of GH Events , Josh Wilson Heista Fuels and Ian Barrs of Hull Training confirmed the overall winners of the 11-16 age group in the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge they are The Green Queen’s and East Hull Urban Arts from Malet Lambert School in East Hull each gaining an investment of £300 from the Badgers and the chance to double their money when they face Ruth Badger herself on Thursday 17th November in Global Entrepreneurship Week.

The Green Queen’s who are wanting to support primary schools to understand the environmental agenda also received support for their business idea from the C-operative and invited to apply to funds from the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank and the two members of East Hull Urban Arts gained 325 in Co-op Vouchers.

Both teams gained high comendations from the judges. Both teams scored exactly the same marks and had impressed the judges with their enthusiasm and business model

Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge 2011 11 to 16 Section

Badgers Sett Enterprise Judges to-day heard from three teams from Andrew Marvell Business Enterprise College all of which impressed the panel of Mally Welburn, Oliver Wilson of Xuro, Graham Jenkinson of Jenko, Bronwyn Wilson of Crazy Critter World, Tracey Dervey of City Works and Rachael Austin of Mail News and Media. All the entrants each received £20 in vouchers from the Co-operative.

At the same time each team has been invited either as a collective or in their individual groups to apply for funding from the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank http://www.youthenterprise.co.uk/.

Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge under 11 Section

Today Neil Cavil of Npower, Peter Shipp of EYMS, Graham Henderson of GH Events, Cllr Chris Gurevitch judged the shortlisted schools for the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge under 11 Section, all four schools Griffin, Gillshill, Victoria Dock and Longhill did really well at showing how enterprising they are. In the end the judges nominated Tree Hugger Productions of Griffin Primary School who are looking to produce canvas draw bags with a green message and the Toast Bar from Longhill Primary School.

These two schools won £250 and will now get the chance to win another £250 towards their enterprising idea when they face Ruth Badger and her assistants in Global Entrepreneurship Week on November 17th 2011.
All the schools also received vouchers to support their idea from the Co-operative and or from I Love2Shop vouchers.

Global Entrepreneurship Week Logo for Hull 2012

A competition to design the logo for next year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week in Hull was decided  by Claire Young. There was nearly sixty entries entries had been received with a very high standard of submission.

The competition was won by young people from Malet Lambert Language College with Poppy the enterprising pony designed by Shauna Burnett and Dora the enterprising Dinosaur designed by Molly Butcher.