Enterprise Education to Entreprenurship - Hull Way

Young entrepreneurs and enterprising pupils from Hull have been invited to Downing Street and to Buckingham Palace to outline how they are supported by Hull City Council and the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership in developing enterprise activities and programmes such as the Youth Enterprise Bank, Be Enterprising Group of teachers, the Young Entrepreneurs Network, Global Entrepreneurship Week and the new Hull enterprise board game


Firstly, young entrepreneurs Katie Norman of Labrascals, Tom Arran Photographer, Ross Bennett of Engaging Education and the Chair of Hull’s Enterprising teachers group Stephen Logan of Malet Lambert School have been invited to update Buckingham Palace on what we are doing as a city to support our enterprising young people on 23rd May.

During Humber Business Week, representatives from Sirius Academy, Malet Lambert School, Gillshill Primary School and Hull’s Young entrepreneur of the Year Tom Arran have been invited to Downing Street on the 2nd of June to talk and present their views and recommendations to Lord Young for his review into enterprise education and present him with Hull’s Youth Enterprise Trail game, developed especially for the review by young people. The game features the Humber’s work including the ‘Be Enterprising Group’ of teachers and tutors and the ‘Big 13 Enterprise Skills. It also represents the fabulous support available in Hull for young people to develop their enterprising ideas and become successful entrepreneurs of the future…or indeed enterprising employees.

Ross Bennett Chair of Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership said:

“We welcome the opportunity to contribute to this important review led by the Governments Enterprise Champion Lord Young, with three of our enterprising schools in Hull following the development of a board game that highlights what is working in Hull to support our enterprising young people.

“We are equally excited that we are going to Buckingham Palace to outline the support that is available to young entrepreneurs in Hull and to see if we can work with the Duke of York on his new Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award (iDEA) scheme run by the Nominet Trust to support young people aged 16 to 25 to gain the critical digital and entrepreneurial skills they need to set up and run their own business venture. We are hoping that the Duke of York will come to Hull soon to see the work of those that support our enterprising young people,

Cllr Rosie Nicola said:

“It is great news that within a two week period, some of Hull’s enterprising students and young entrepreneurs are to inform both Buckingham Palace and No10 Downing Street about the work that goes on in our City to support our enterprising young people, it clearly shows that Hull is seen as an enterprising place and is wanting to do more to develop the City’s entrepreneurial culture amongst its young people”