10th Anniversary Global Entrepreneurship Week in Hull

The 10th Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) takes place from 13 to 17 November and Hull will host seven major events to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs in the city. Hull will also be the launch of the national campaign for Global Entrepreneurship Week as it celebrates its 10^th Anniversary.

Hull City Council, in partnership with Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership, have organised seven major events to inspire, connect and engage the next generation of entrepreneurs in Hull. The city will host former BBC  Adam Corbally and Antony Chesworth of founder EKM Systems, as well as young entrepreneurs Aaron Conroy of Fenburg who use to be homeless, Eve Lodge of Get Barmy Bunting who is still at University and  Evie Sharp of Peaches & Dreams who runs her children’s clothing business from home. Ross Bennett MD of Engaging Education will be the MC.

Global Entrepreneurship Week in Hull will be sponsored by a number of small and large private, public and charitable organisations including: Sangwin Group, Hull City Council, John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank, RB, Primary TEC, Future Works Yorkshire, Hull College, University of Hull Two Ridings Community Foundation, Hull Training, Swift Group, KCOM, Green Port, University of Hull, Hull Humber Chamber of Commerce, GH Events, Engaging Education, T Arran Photography, Humber LEP, Oak Consult, Hull College and Future Works Yorkshire and DLB Events.

Hull is putting its weight behind GEW for the tenth year and are proud to be the host city for the launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week in order to show how enterprising its young people are and throughout November the city will host over 20 events and activities relating to entrepreneurship across many of our schools and colleges.

Councillor Martin Mancey, Portfolio Holder for Energy City said:

"Global Entrepreneurship Week is all about how small ideas can take root and become viable business plans, with the potential to grow into sustainable companies. We hope to set an aspirational agenda for today's young people in the city to set up their own businesses, start social enterprises, improve their communities and become innovative employees themselves.

"The council and its partners are delighted that it will be part of the national launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week and are very pleased to be supporting its enterprising young people through a number of schemes including the award winning John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank, the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge, £5 Blossom, MC4C programme for young people and the Lee Creamer Youth Enterprise Club." 

Ewan Gaffney Managing Director of GEN UK and GEW UK.

This November, the Global Entrepreneurship Week celebrates its tenth anniversary, over the 10 years Hull has played a significant part in these celebrations and that is why this year as the UK’s Most Enterprising Place 2017 and the fact that it’s the City of Culture – Hull’s first event of the week will be the official launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2017

This year GEW also sees the official launch of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GENUK) – a brand new platform and group of initiatives to help the UK enterprise ecosystem take advantage of this vast network of opportunity and bring the full power of the world’s preeminent entrepreneurship community to bear in support of the UK economy and Hull is taking advantage of that by been invited to the Start up Nations Summit in Estonia.

For more information about the activities and the week ahead visit www.gewhull.co.uk check out @GEW_Hull and Hashtag #GEW2017 #GEWGo

Further Information

In 2005 the UK hosted the very first Enterprise Week and gave life to a movement that would sweep the world and Hull was part of that .  In 2007 18 nations joined the UK in committing to host a simultaneous celebration of entrepreneurship each November. By 2008, host organisations in 77 countries had officially signed on—and 3 million people participated in 25,022 events and activities. Today the GEW campaign is the centrepiece of a sophisticated and comprehensive effort to connect people and resources together to create new opportunities and power a unique, open source ecosystem platform, called the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN).

GEN engages entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, researchers, support organizations and others collaborating to advance economic growth and innovation in more than 170 countries around the world.  GEN UK is geared towards collaboration and impact at scale and is designed to help better understand, connect and grow the UK’s small business ecosystem

 At the most fundamental level, GENUK links entrepreneurs and the institutions which support them together. Once established, GENUK connects this unified ecosystem to an international peer community operating at the cutting edge of ecosystem development. GENUK is about creating jobs and strengthening economic stability at a global and national and community level. – More on that in a later, longer post.

This November Roughly 35,000 events and competitions will take place during #GEW2017—connecting millions of participants to potential collaborators, mentors, and even investors. Dozens of world leaders on every continent and a network of more than 15,000 partner organizations support the initiative every year – in the UK we’re expanding our Compass Partners network.

Global Entrepreneurship Week provides a perfect opportunity for UK business to expand their reach to new audiences from all parts of their ecosystem and foster connections and resources at the global level.

#GEW2017 #GEWGo will be November 13-19

Events in Hull in Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Monday 13^th November Make £5 Blossom event where 16 schools will meet up with 16 businesses in order to start a three month programme in which young people receive a loan of £150 from their business partner and get the chance to make it grow through a range of money making activities. This event will also be part of the national launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week. At the end of the period the profits made from business loans will be split between the school and Action Duchenne which is this year's charity.

Tuesday 14^th November  sponsored by KCOM this event will be a Google Hangout with Hull’s partners the Hook up Dinner in Johannesburg  South Africa, at this small event young entrepreneurs from Hull and those that support them will get the chance to talk to colleagues about the different and similar challenges they face in South Africa,, we try to make this as interactive as possible.

Tuesday 14^th November - #THUDYorkshire at this event five young people wanting to go into business will pitch to an invited audience for investment in their business from the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank of up to £500 and from the audience itself.

Wednesday 15^th November - Post 16 Event, this will involve 200 young people from a range of colleges and schools, as well as apprentice providers with former BBC Apprentice Adam Corbally and young entrepreneurs at this event. At this event the young people will be set a business challenge around developing a new caravan for the Swift Group. The young people will be competing for prizes ranging from £100 to £250 for their teams.

Thursday 16^th November - Secondary School Event, 9:30am till 3pm including lunch. This will involve 200 young people from a range of colleges and schools as well as apprentice providers with former BBC Apprentice Adam Corbally, Antony Chesworth Founder of EKM Systems. At this event the young people will be set a business challenge around developing an event at KCOM Craven Park for the Sangwin Group. The young people will be competing for prizes ranging from £100 to £250 for their teams.

Friday 17^th November Primary Event 9:30am till 2:30pm. This will involve 200 young people from primary schools, at this event the young people will take part in a challenge focusing on KCOM Craven Park as a central venue – exploring innovative ideas and uses. The young people will be competing for prizes ranging from £100 to £250 for their teams.

Friday 17^th November - Annual Celebration and Awards Evening at KCOM Craven Park in which 10 youth enterprise awards including The Maxwell Bird Most Enterprising School, the  Kevin McNamara Most Enterprising Teacher and the Sheila Waudby Young Entrepreneur of the Year will be given out by the Lord Mayor of Hull and Chair Ryedale Council with Emma Hardy MP and all funds raised at the evening will go to Action Duchenne.

Nomination Charles Cracknell Start up Nations Award

The Global Entrepreneurship Network announced four finalists for the Startup Nations Award for Local Policy Leadership. The award recognizes public sector achievement at the local level in championing innovative policies or programs that advance new and young firm formation. The award is one of three Startup Nations Awards that will be presented at the Startup Nations Summit on Tuesday, November 21 in Estonia.

The other two Startup Nations Awards are Groundbreaking Policy Thinking and National Policy Leadership. This year, the four finalists for the Local Policy Leadership Award hail from four different countries, and have contributed to their community as a startup champion through a variety of initiatives ranging from ecosystem coordination and collaboration, to promoting entrepreneurship education and innovative skills building in local communities.

Charles Cracknell Youth Enterprise Manager Hull City Council said

"I am delighted as well as somewhat shocked at this announcement of my shortlist for this prestigious award for those in public service across the world that support entrepreneurship in their communities- working with colleagues  and with the many young entrepreneurs and enterprising young people in our schools & colleges and those that support we have made great strides in the last twenty years supporting  our enterprising young people that has contributed to Hull becoming recognised as the UK's Most Enterprising Place and I am proud to have played a small part in that.

Councillor Martin Mancey

Hull has a real commitment to enterprise education and youth entrepreneurship and Charles has played his part within that agenda forging an effective partnership of the willing who work tirelessly on behalf of our enterprising young people. We wish Charles well in Estonia and we are pleased that the judges have shortlisted one of Hull City Councils staff for the prestigious 2017 Startup Nations Award for Local Policy Leadership."

Further Information 

The Selection Committee evaluated nominations based on the following criteria:

• Clarity in the identification of the bottleneck(s) affecting the local ecosystem
• Level of innovativeness of the specific policy lever(s) or program idea(s)
• Level of personal commitment to shifting local government thinking on entrepreneurship
• Extent to which the local effort helped set the example for national level action
• Availability of metrics or evidence to show the impact of the policymaker’s efforts
• Extent to which it is possible to replicate efforts, adapting to other policy areas or other ecosystems

The winner will be the third recipient of the award, which was previously received by Bart De Wever, mayor of Antwerp, Belgium, and María José Vengoechea, executive president of the Barranquilla Chamber of Commerce in Colombia.

Below are the three other  finalists for the 2017 Startup Nations Award for Local Policy Leadership along with Charles Cracknell.

Jorge Lawson,
Former Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Mining, Province of Cordoba
Director, Argentinean National Bank (Banco de la Nación Argentina)
Argentina

Mr. Lawson designed and implemented a plethora of programs and policies during his time as a regional policy leader in the Province of Cordoba, all with a vision to build an ecosystem that can continue to develop, well-past government support. He instituted the Province’s SME and Entrepreneurial Development Secretariat. His legacy proved to be self-sustainable, as ecosystem coordination and collaboration continues via the “Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Córdoba,” an entity that he formed in 2012 with 65 different organizations with legal capacity. Mr. Lawson’s vision allowed the Province to more effectively address capacity building gaps across different types of business: traditional, new, young, and high-growth.

Frank Aguirre
Business Development Manager, Office of Los Angeles Mayor
United States 

Mr. Aguirre is a collaboration-oriented public official who created synergies between the local and the national policy efforts to support entrepreneurs. Most recently, he successfully led the City of Los Angeles proposal in response to the Start Up in a Day “Dream-Big” competition, which was launched at the national level by the United States Small Business Administration. The City proposed an open-source web portal to help streamline the process through which business owners apply for permits. The idea won the top prize of $250,000, which will help L.A. launch the portal within a year, as announced by Mayor Eric Garcetti. The portal will be open-source so other cities can replicate it free of charge.

Rebecca Palmer
Member, Barrie/Simcoe Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Committee
Canada

Ms. Palmer has focused on access to skills by providing entrepreneurial education, workshops and events to youth aged 10-24, many of which in collaboration with the local government authorities, particularly in the Simcoe county. Ms. Palmer works closely with the City of Barrie to help develop the city's approach to entrepreneurship, as well as with other ecosystem actors like Georgian College's Entrepreneurial Advisory Board. She is also currently working on developing a new microloan program that provide access to capital to youth under the age of 19, and as such continues to test programs that could be then scaled by public sector agencies.

Charles Cracknell, 
Youth Enterprise Manager, Hull City Council
United Kingdom

Charles was an elected representative on Humberside County Council and Hull City Council and championed the aspirations of young people. Mr. Cracknell brought to the city-level public sector the voice of young entrepreneurs, having devoted years as a grassroots advocate for enterprising youth. He has established a range of enterprise education and youth entrepreneurship programs in the City of Hull. Mr. Cracknell  established the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank www.youthenterprise.co.ukwho are launching new ventures in the fields of science, engineering, technology and healthcare. This policy tool provides them with seed funds along with mentorship.

Hull Youth Enterprise Awards 2017

Over 50 nominations for individuals and organisations have been submitted for the Hull Youth Enterprise Awards 2017,.

The awards are organised Hull City Council, in partnership with the John Cracknel Youth Enterprise Bank and local businesses, that recognise how enterprising our young people are and recognises those that support enterprising young people. A panel has now shortlisted in each of the categories.

This year’s awards winners will be announced by the Lord Mayor of Hull Councillor John Hewitt and Adam Corbally former BBC Apprentice Candidate in Global Entrepreneurship Week at Craven Park in November.

1. The shortlisted nominations for The Maxwell Bird most enterprising School in Hull sponsored by Sangwin Group are Griffin Primary, Gillshill Primary, Eastfield Primary, Hull College and St Mary’s College.

2.The shortlisted nominations for Kevin McNamara most enterprising Teacher/Tutor in Hull sponsored by Hull City Council is Darren Storrer of Hull College, Vicky McKinnon of St Marys College, Andrea Roberts of Eastfield School, Sue Furniss of Griffin Primary School

3. The shortlisted nominations for the business/organisation that has done the most to promote enterprise in a sustainable way sponsored by John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank are KCOM, Primary TEC, For Entrepreneurs Only, Hull City Council and Sangwin Group

4. The shortlisted  nominations for The Sheila Waudby Young Entrepreneur of Year sponsored by Hull City Council are Macauley Dunham property maintenance company , Seragi Kolav for his photography and cleaning businesses, Millie Notarantonio for her online personalised products Millie.Co, Aaron Conroy for his online jewellery business Fenburg ,

5. The shortlisted nominations for Jane Disbrey Most Enterprising student sponsored by RB are Millie Notarantonio of St Mary’s College, Macauley Dunham of Hull Training and Robert Langham of Making Changes for Careers Programme

6,  The shortlisted nominations for Best Newcomer  to Enterprise Education 2017 –  Haggai Mwiko Hull City Council, Sarah Procter of Cavendish Primary. Hayley Drummond Appleton Primary and Jo Clark of Woodland Primary School.        

On the evening there will also be special awards issued to those that over the years have made a difference in supporting enterprising young people in Hull that will be presented by Cllr William Oxley Chairman Ryedale Council.

Special awards

• The John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Award
• The Lee Creamer Youth Enterprise Award
• The Gordon Wilson Youth Enterprise Leadership Award

• The Jack Brignall Youth Enterprise Award

Councillor Martin Mancey , said:

"There is no doubt that Hull as a city has real commitment through Hull City Council and the Youth Enterprise Partnership to develop the enterprising skills of young people.

“It never ceases to amaze me how with the right support and encouragement young people are truly enterprising and whilst not all will go on to be entrepreneurs of the future they certainly will be more enterprising in their outlook and in the workplace.

"I know it will be a difficult choice but all nominations are winners and true ambassadors of Hull and Yorkshire."

Ross Bennett, Hull Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2016, said: 

"It was a great honour last year to be announced as Hull's Young Entrepreneur of the Year. 

"I have enjoyed my year acting as ambassador for Hull and its enterprising young people”

"I am pleased that this year over 50 individuals and organisations have received nominations and I look forward to the announcement of the well deserved winners in the 10^th Global Entrepreneurship Week so they can get recognition for the enterprising work they do in the city and continue to act as ambassadors for the city.

“I am particularly pleased to see awards named after leading people who have sadly died this year who had championed young people – there is no doubt that Maxwell Bird, Gordon Wilson and Kevin McNamara made a tremendous contribution to supporting young people.

Tony Robinson OBE set to be Patron John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank

The nationally recognised John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank is delighted to announce that Tony Robinson OBE of Enterprise Rockers and Micro Business Champion, has agreed to be its Patron in supporting the enterprising young people of Hull, East Riding, Ryedale and Scarborough. As Patron, Tony will be the face of the bank and its work at regional and national levels as well as helping it to secure further support from the business community for its bondholder and mentoring scheme.

Tony Robinson OBE said:

"Wow what an honour to be asked to be Patron of John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank.  My Mum and Dad, if they were alive, would have been so proud that this great City, which they built their own business in, was leading the UK in enterprise promotion and skills for young people "

"I'm immensely grateful for all the backing we've received from John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank for our annual, global #MicroBizMattersDay and more so, in furthering our shared aim of overcoming economic and social barriers for young people through enterprise".

'I've spent a lifetime trying to influence government policies, education, training and business support provision to recognise that enterprise - starting and running your own business' - requires a different skill set to other business and management careers. The John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank gets this and through many innovative and above all, enterprising, ways ensures young people in and out of school can develop these survive and thrive skills. I'm honoured to be Patron of this rocking partnership and movement'  

Charles Cracknell Secretary of John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank said:

“The John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank are delighted to have secured the support and services of such a nationally recognised figure as Tony Robinson OBE of Enterprise Rockers, not only does Tony have connections with Hull he is also a national champion of Micro Businesses – over the last few years we have worked with Tony and his colleagues at Enterprise Rockers on Micro Biz Day and it’s through Tony we are now looking to establish links with Charlie Mullins of Pimlico Plumbers. Over the last twenty years Tony has secured the well-deserved title of “UK Micro Business Champion”

Further Information about Tony Robinson:

Tony and all his family are from East and West Hull. He lived in Hessle and went to Beverley Grammar School and was proud to play cricket and tennis at Hull YPI and more importantly, have a season ticket to watch Waggy at Boothferry Park (he's very old). 

Tony is known nationally and internationally as the Micro Business Champion. Tony has been running his own business, with Clare Francis, for over 30 years. He started championing the skills, know-how and eco system, that those starting their own business need to survive and thrive. In 1996, a Government contract to describe the competences needed by those starting a business and those advising them led to him founding the SFEDI Group (which includes the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship) to raise the quality of enterprise learning and support. 

In January 2012 he founded, with Tina Boden, the indie, free, informal, no contact details required, Enterprise Rockers CIC to make life better for micro (0-9 employees) business owners everywhere. They run the annual, global #MicroBizMattersDay which the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank supports. The 4th #MicroBizMattersDay takes place on January 12th 2018 broadcasting live from Manchester.   

Most of Tony's work and campaigns to back micro enterprise has been self-funded - unpaid and voluntary. This includes being a Director of the Centre for Enterprise, Director of Yorkshire in Business (the Yorkshire Coast Enterprise Agency), Vice President of the National Federation of Enterprise Agencies (now NEN), Vice President of ISBE and Investors in People Small Business Champion. His 20 year campaign that all organisations that Government buy from, fund or licence should #PayIn30Days all their bills found its way into the Labour Party manifesto at the last General Election. 

Tony was awarded an OBE for small firms and training and is the recipient of 2 Lifetime Achievement Awards for his contribution to Entrepreneurship (from the IAB and Start Your Business Magazine). He regularly appears in the Top 100 Influencers in the UK on Entrepreneurship. He is currently on a never ending (he hopes) tour with his one hour, one man 'Micro Is Magic' show based on his best-selling fictional satire 'Freedom from Bosses Forever'. 

John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank:

The John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank is for young people who live in Hull, East Riding and the towns of Malton, Norton on Derwent, Pickering in Ryedale and the town of Scarborough, aged up to and including 21 years old. It offers grants of up to £1,000 for individuals or groups of young people who need finance to help make their idea happen. (More funding will be considered in exceptional circumstances). The idea should benefit other people or help the applicant develop an enterprising idea.

The Youth Enterprise Bank (YEB) is not just about giving financial support, it also offers practical help with developing your business idea. The Youth Enterprise Bank is managed by a group of trustees, and linked to the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership.

To-date over 400 young people from Hull have benefited from this source of funding, buying items such as: Computers, Business Stationery, Websites, Photography Equipment, Bicycle Repair Equipment, Chocolate Making Equipment, Dance costumes for local bands, equipment for mobile hairdressers and much more.

In 2015 the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank won Enterprising Britain and was a runner up in the European Enterprise Promotion Awards and in 2017 won best social enterprise in the East Coast Chamber Awards.

Hull Youth Enterprise Awards 2017

Nominations are now open for Hull Youth Enterprise Awards 2017 that recognise Hull's enterprising schools and businesses. The awards recognise Hull's enterprising schools and businesses and are organised by Hull City Council in partnership with the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank.

Award categories:

• The Maxwell Bird most enterprising school in Hull 2017
• The business that has done the most to promote an enterprise culture in the City 2017
• The Sheila Waudby Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2017
• Most Enterprising Teacher 2017
• The Jane Disbrey Enterprising Student Award 2017
• Best Newcomer School to Enterprise Education 2017

Special awards

• The John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Award
• The Lee Creamer Youth Enterprise Award
• The Gordon Wilson Youth Enterprise Leadership Award
• The Jack Brignall Youth Enterprise Award

The awards are sponsored by local businesses and organisations from across the city. This year's award winners will be announced in Global Entrepreneurship in November.

Winners will be invited to receive their award at the celebration event on Friday 17 November at Craven Park as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. The winning schools will receive an engraved plaque and £200 to further develop enterprise activity.

Councillor Martin Mancey, Portfolio Holder for Economic Investment, 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 our young people.

"The Council, in collaboration with the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership, is committed to supporting our enterprising young people. We are more than aware that the young people of Hull are our future, and we want them to move forward in life equipped with the right skills to build successful careers.

“I particularly welcome the two new awards in the memories of the late Maxwell Bird and Gordon Wilson, two champions of young people in the city that sadly passed away this year.”

Nick Sangwin, MD of the Sangwin Group and Chair of Global Entrepreneurship Week Planning Group, added: “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. With the right support and encouragement, Hull's young people are truly enterprising. Whilst not all will pursue an entrepreneurial career in the future, the majority of them will most certainly use their skills in the workplace."

Last year Ross Bennett was honoured with The Sheila Waudby Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and thoroughly enjoyed the experience, he said: "For five years my educational services business has had support from the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership and its many partners. I am very proud to be associated with them, especially during Global Entrepreneurship Week and as a member of the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank management committee."

For nomination forms contact the Youth Enterprise team on 01482 613 489.or email Charles.cracknell@hullcc.gov.uk

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 26^th 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

#THUDYorkshire From South Africa to Hull

On 20^thJanuary 2017 at Furley & Co from 5.30pm till 8.30pm as part of 2017 Hull City of Culture Celebrations and to mark the official launch of The Hook-Up Dinner Yorkshire (an international networking group founded in South Africa) for young entrepreneurs. The Hull based young entrepreneurs Thomas Arran and Kit Hargreaves have brought the concept of the Hook up Dinner to Hull from South Africa after they visited South Africa last year to meet young entrepreneurs and will act as joint Chairs of #THUDYorkshire

The first event will be attended by young entrepreneurs from Hull and North Yorkshire as well as Selebogo Molefe CEO - Lifesgud Global Investments (Pty) Ltd founder of Hook up Dinner movement who will talking about the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in South Africa and the similarities with Hull and the coordinator of the HOOK up Dinner in Zimbabwe Constantine Nyanzero, who will be speaking about Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Zimbabwe.

Kit Hargreaves MD Klick and Tap

"THUD Yorkshire was inspired by a recent visit by some of Hulls young people to South Africa. This was an eye-opening trip that really demonstrated to us that the challenges faced by young people, whilst on different scales, both in life and in business are not all that different. However both cultures have developed their own ways of dealing with these challenges. These are strategies we can use to develop and encourage young people in Hull and Yorkshire. This is what THUD Yorkshire is about - it's about using every available opportunity, every available strategy and initiative to create a environment where young people can thrive."

Cllr Martin Mancey Hull City Council 

It is fantastic that Hull in this year of City of Culture is to host the first of the Hook up Dinner Events in the UK at which young people and established business will be able to support each other and to work with schools and colleges and will be run by young entrepreneurs.

I am pleased that KCOM, RB and the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank are supporting this network along with Hull City Council and I am delighted that the founder of the Hook up Dinner movement Selebogo Molefe CEO - Lifesgud Global Investments (Pty) Ltd intends on coming to attend the launch”

Selebogo Molefe CEO - Lifesgud Global Investments (Pty) Ltd founder of Hook up Dinner movement

“In 2014 I visited Hull, to see how Hull City Council were supporting young entrepreneurs and the return visit by young entrepreneurs from Hull to Johannesburg was a great success last year. We were extremely pleased that two of our enterprise education projects, Beyond the Lemonade Stand and Biz Kidz South Africa, based in Soweto and Alexandra Townships respectively are partnering with your fantastic John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank.”

“I am delighted to be returning to Hull to support the launch of #THUDYorkshire and to welcome it into our international movement were young entrepreneurs can support each other.”

Further Information

In order to attend #THUDYORKSHIRE you can do so by registering via  https://thudyorkshirelaunch.eventbrite.co.uk

#THUDYorkshire is a new initiative that brings the passion, dedication and hugely successful model of the Hook Up Dinner to young people in the UK. It began after a trip to South Africa by young entrepreneurs. While they were there, the young people saw how even thousands of miles away, the same issues were faced by young enterprising people there as in the UK. As a result on their return, they decided to set up a similar initiative in Hull and Yorkshire. #THUDYorkshire will be holding monthly meetings to encourage discussion and facilitate connections between young people to help everyone grow