£5 Blossom Celebration - 11th

Hull City Council’s Make £5 Blossom project will be holding its 11^th end celebration event at the Guildhall on April the 21^st and will see primary school pupils and young apprentices, sharing their enterprising journeys of how they used the loan they received from their business partners to hopefully make a profit.

The only boundaries set for the young people was that their ideas would need to have an element of involving the promotion of Hull or the City of Culture success in some way or another, other than that they could be as enterprising as they wanted.

Each group of young people were given a loan of £250 in November 2014 from their business partner and have had to show their entrepreneurial spirit whilst using the Big 13 Enterprise Skills to hopefully make a profit, this will then be shared between our enterprising young people, The Lord Mayors Charity and the Be Enterprising Group of practitioners.

Involvement in this round has included Gillshill Primary and Sangwin, Stoneferry and Spencer’s, Victoria Dock and Apple Pear, St Nicholas’ and Hull Daily Mail, Bellfield and TArran Photography, Mersey and AB Rooms, Hull Training and HBP Systems Ltd, Longhill and KC, St Richards and The Deep, Thorpepark and NPS and Elloughton and St Stephen’s Shopping Centre.

Ruth Truelove at St Stephen's Shopping Centre said:

 "Make £5 Blossom is an excellent scheme that we've been delighted to support for a number of years. Through the work that we do, we see so many examples of talent, creativity and entrepreneurialism even in the youngest pupils. The results of the children's projects each year never fail to encourage and inspire us."

Oliver Nicoll, of HBP Systems Ltd, said:

"It has been fantastic working with such a great team of guys, they have all shown great enthusiasm in getting the project going, taking a good idea and turning it into a great business opportunity. I think with a little more time they will continue to flourish …. And who knows where Dr Jams could end up”