Welcome to this blog that shows how enterprising the city of Hull's young people are. The blog will feature up-dates about the work of the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership and its support for Global Entrepreneurship Week.
















Tuesday 18 April 2017

Make £5 Blossom - Round 14


Hull City Council’s Make £5 Blossom project will be holding its 14th end celebration event sponsored by the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank at the Guildhall on April 26th the and will see primary and secondary school pupils, sharing their enterprising journeys of how they used a 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 as the City of Culture, other than that they could be as enterprising as they wanted. The pupils at Craven Primary Academy produced Hull themed badges working with KCOM’s Community Manager Brendon Smurthwaite, whilst Wansbeck Primary held a musical evening, a number of the enterprising pupils held Christmas and Easer Fairs whilst Gillshill Primary designed and created Hull themed shopping bags.

Each group of young people were given a loan of £150 in November 2015 as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 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, our charity of the year Action Duchenne www.actionduchenne.org which is the most common fatal genetic disorder diagnosed in childhood, affecting approximately 1 in every 3,500 live male births (around 2500 people have DMD in the UK) and the Be Enterprising Group of practitioners.
Involvement in this round has included Mersey Primary/ Estcourt Primaries with AB Rooms, Woodlands Primary with  AA Global, Tweendykes with Netopian, Griffin Primary with Inspireignite, Wansbeck with Daniel Barker Music,St Marys College with Swift Group, Biggin Hill Primary with St Stephen’s Shopping Centre, Buckingham Prmary with  Pepperell’s Solicitors, Gillshill Primary with Active Humber, Francis Askew Primary and Courage Queen,Priory Primary and 360 Accountants and Craven Primary Academy with KCOM.

Daniel Barker DM Music said:
"As a teacher and musician it has been fantastic working with such a great team of young people from Wansbeck, 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 the enterprising pupils I have worked with could end up”

Mike Notarantonio, Youth Enterprise Officer, Hull City Council

“I am really looking forward to seeing what ideas the young people have come up with for the Make £5 Blossom celebration event here at the Guildhall, it is always an inspirational event and I am sure everyone of the schools involved will have put their enterprising skills to the test. It should be a great event with all the schools and their business partners attending to show their support for each other”  


Further Information

As part of £5 Blossom pupils learn about the Big 13 Enterprise Skills Negotiating and Influencing, Risk Management, Effective Communication, Positive Attitude, Leadership, Product Service and Design, Organising and Planning, Problem Solving, Making Ethical Decisions, Financial Literacy, Team Work, Creativity and Innovation and using your Initiative  

In the previous rounds schools in Hull have worked with over 120 different businesses and the pupils have made £1000’s in profit and over 4000 pupils have been involved.

Check out £5 Blossom video to encourage businesses to get involved https://youtu.be/hNHlWDYpZT0