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
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