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
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