This week was great. I got to break free of the structured routine of school lessons into the world of work. The week started with a meeting, the contents of which are, at this moment, confidential, which was attended by my form tutor, Mr Logan, amongst other people. I then spent the rest of the day measuring one of the training rooms and translating it into a digital medium so I could then design the furniture layout for the room but not before I had my safety induction.
Tuesday, began similar to how Monday ended, except with a lot more tea making. I began to work on a large display to highlight the Big 13 Enterprising skills, which, funnily enough involved some of those skills. I continued to design and improve on the layout of the training room before Wednesday.
The van was available on Wednesday, which meant I needed to help shift furniture from another HCC office to the training room with Mike, Charles disapperaed for a meeting!! . There was a lot, but we got through it in the end. That wasn’t the end as we then had to extract the old furniture. I’m glad I wasn’t unloading it.
Thursday saw a continuation with the display design and more tea, along with an excursion to Neasden Primary School to help some of the kids make a new sign for the school.
I finalised some of the designs I had worked on this week today, ready to be sent off into the world. I made a bit more tea and finished by writing this very blog. So now its back to school for one last week before the holiday.
Charles Cracknell Holder of the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion said
"Josh Langcaster was a great credit to Malet Lambert School and we enjoyed having him with us there is no doubt if other companies want to consider work experience I would encourage them to so and certainly look at working with Malet lambert School"
"Josh's design for Hull Youth enterprise Partnership logo will be used in the future as will his proposed layout of the Lee Creamer Youth Enterprise suite and we will look to see how we can adapt his design for Big 13 Enterprise Skills Notice Board"
Friday, 13 July 2012
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Deadline extended to Challenge the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge
The deadline for entries for the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge is to be extended by a month to 1st November 2012
Young people from Hull and East Riding have now until 1 November to enter their enterprising idea, which can be based on anything from a new business venture to a community project. There are three age categories for youngsters to enter for primary schools entries who can win up to £500, secondary school entries who can win up to £750 and a section for 16-24 year olds who can win up to £1,500.
Young people from Hull and the East Riding are being encouraged to take part in an enterprise competition to stand a chance of winning a share of up to £5,000 to put towards their enterprising idea. Challenge the Badgers Sett is a Dragon's Den style competition which was launched on 1st June this year. The competition is being run in partnership by hull Youth Enterprise Partnership, the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank alongside Force-7, Ruth Badger consultancy and GH Events.
Independent panels will asses the applications and then draw up a shortlist for each category who will then come face-to-face with the 'Badgers', including Ruth Badger herself. The short listed young people will pitch their idea to the 'Badgers' during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012 in November and get the chance to double their initial winnings with the overall winner getting business advice from Ruth Badger herself.
Ruth Badger said:
“I am very passionate about enterprise and ensuring young people have the opportunity to engage in it! Out of all of the City’s UK wide, Hull are the best at engaging real entrepreneurs, successful business and partnering them with the young people of the city and that is why I have set up this competition with the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership and the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank. I am pleased that demand in its third year is so great that we have had to extend the deadline by one month.”"I want to encourage young people in Hull and the East Riding , an area that I have adopted for its commitment to its enterprising young people, who possibly are not at the stage where they feel can develop their idea on their own or need some extra confidence.
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“Demand for support from potential entrants to this exciting competition has meant we have extended the deadline date by one month as there are some great ideas with just a little extra support could prove to be award winning enterprising ideas in the future
"The sort of things we as judges will be looking at is how entrants are going to best use the prize money. Perhaps they are going to employ someone or they are going to put something back into their local community working with other young people or in terms of the entries from primary and secondary schools in Hull and the East Riding the funding will develop such things as smoothie bars, gardens and cafes as well as play areas all of which make an invaluable contribution to a schools community.”
Further Information
http://www.hullbadgers.co.uk/
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Consultation on Hull's Youth Enterprise Charter
The Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership in consultation with one of its Patrons international Business Guru Ruth Badger are consulting on a Youth Enterprise Charter for Hull. If you have any views please email them to charles.cracknell@hullcc.gov.uk
Our Vision - Hull Youth Enterprise Charter
To cultivate an entrepreneurial culture amongst the city’s next generation of business people. Our vision is to work with young people aged from 4 – 24 to secure a positive and sustainable future for the City. All of this is achieved through engaging with successful companies and individuals to form solid partnerships. Our vision encourages the experience and passion to develop the young people and future entrepreneurs of our City.
Our vision is to establish a spectrum of enterprise opportunities to allow all young people aged from 4-24 to engage with enterprise. Our vision is shared with our partners in local business and successful entrepreneurs.
Our Belief:
We believe that allowing young people to engage in enterprise education while in school, doubles the potential of them starting their own business, becoming self sufficent and building their own future. We believe that entrepreneurs really can be made with the right support, direction and encouragement.
We believe we have a responsibility to allow young people to be enterprising and teach them the entrepreneurial mindset. Doing this will build their personal confidence, aspiration levels and make them ambitious. We can make them influence their own opportunities in the 21st century.
We believe there is a need to promote young entrepreneurs as role models both within and outside the City.
Our Aims:
• To educate and influence regional and national partners about the enterprise agenda
• To rebuild Hull’s young entrepreneurial culture as part of rebalancing the local economy
• To open doors and give the opportunity for the young people to transition and go into business whilst still learning
• To support current and future providers to deliver quality programmes
• To enable young people to have an active involvement in the work of all spectrums of enterprise
• To establish a young entrepreneurs’ Speakers Programme and Enterprise Network.
• To engage with business and young people in order to develop their understanding of the 13 key enterprise skills
The Youth Enterprise Charter alongside the Employment Charter formalises a set of principals designed to bridge the gap between education and business. They both allow young people, teachers/tutors and businesses to work together in partnership. This engagement helps to develop young people’s knowledge and understanding of enterprise so they can become either enterprising employees or future entrepreneurs. The Charter agrees the ways in which businesses can work together with students, teachers/tutors. It creates a common understanding of the skills, language and expectations of Hull’s young people as they become more enterprising.
Teachers / Tutors & Businesses
The following provides examples of how teachers/tutors and businesses can work in partnership to support the development of enterprise skills in Hull’s young people.
• Provide young people with the opportunity to learn by doing from entrepreneurs about how they operate their business outside the learning environment
• Provide the opportunity for young people to undertake the opportunity of running businesses within or outside an educational setting
• Support Enterprise Activities e.g. £5 Blossom and Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge
• Support opportunities for those young people that wish to develop their enterprising idea through mentors
Through supporting the above activities young people, teachers/tutors and businesses will achieve a range of the outcomes listed below.
Outcomes:
• To establish and train an Enterprise Champion in every school, college, training provider and organisation that works with young people
• To improve young people’s knowledge of the value of the Big 13 Enterprise Skills
• To produce more young entrepreneurs and business start-ups
• To enable more young people to access the Youth Enterprise Bank
• More young people participating in enterprise challenges with sustainable business outcomes
• Hull’s businesses have opportunities to share their successes with young people and in turn contribute to young people’s experience of enterprise
• Hear young entrepreneurs talk about their “enterprise” journey
• To give young people more skills to be “work ready”
• Enable young people to explore / identify what the business needs from them
• Allow young people to articulate their ideas and energy in a language understood by business
• To highlight enterprise as a progression pathway
Ruth Badger said
“I am very passionate about enterprise and ensuring young people have the opportunity to engage in it! Out of all of the City’s UK wide, Hull are the best at engaging real entrepreneurs, successful business and partnering them with the young people of the city. I believe if I had have been brought up in Hull and had the privilege to experience what they do I would have made my millions a lot earlier.
With the current economic state it is crucial we get our businesses to engage with young people to make them excited about the working world and help them build a successful future, that is why I am pleased to support Hull's Youth Enterprise Charter and i would ask you to contribute to its ongoing development!”
Our Vision - Hull Youth Enterprise Charter
To cultivate an entrepreneurial culture amongst the city’s next generation of business people. Our vision is to work with young people aged from 4 – 24 to secure a positive and sustainable future for the City. All of this is achieved through engaging with successful companies and individuals to form solid partnerships. Our vision encourages the experience and passion to develop the young people and future entrepreneurs of our City.
Our vision is to establish a spectrum of enterprise opportunities to allow all young people aged from 4-24 to engage with enterprise. Our vision is shared with our partners in local business and successful entrepreneurs.
Our Belief:
We believe that allowing young people to engage in enterprise education while in school, doubles the potential of them starting their own business, becoming self sufficent and building their own future. We believe that entrepreneurs really can be made with the right support, direction and encouragement.
We believe we have a responsibility to allow young people to be enterprising and teach them the entrepreneurial mindset. Doing this will build their personal confidence, aspiration levels and make them ambitious. We can make them influence their own opportunities in the 21st century.
We believe there is a need to promote young entrepreneurs as role models both within and outside the City.
Our Aims:
• To educate and influence regional and national partners about the enterprise agenda
• To rebuild Hull’s young entrepreneurial culture as part of rebalancing the local economy
• To open doors and give the opportunity for the young people to transition and go into business whilst still learning
• To support current and future providers to deliver quality programmes
• To enable young people to have an active involvement in the work of all spectrums of enterprise
• To establish a young entrepreneurs’ Speakers Programme and Enterprise Network.
• To engage with business and young people in order to develop their understanding of the 13 key enterprise skills
The Youth Enterprise Charter alongside the Employment Charter formalises a set of principals designed to bridge the gap between education and business. They both allow young people, teachers/tutors and businesses to work together in partnership. This engagement helps to develop young people’s knowledge and understanding of enterprise so they can become either enterprising employees or future entrepreneurs. The Charter agrees the ways in which businesses can work together with students, teachers/tutors. It creates a common understanding of the skills, language and expectations of Hull’s young people as they become more enterprising.
Teachers / Tutors & Businesses
The following provides examples of how teachers/tutors and businesses can work in partnership to support the development of enterprise skills in Hull’s young people.
• Provide young people with the opportunity to learn by doing from entrepreneurs about how they operate their business outside the learning environment
• Provide the opportunity for young people to undertake the opportunity of running businesses within or outside an educational setting
• Support Enterprise Activities e.g. £5 Blossom and Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge
• Support opportunities for those young people that wish to develop their enterprising idea through mentors
Through supporting the above activities young people, teachers/tutors and businesses will achieve a range of the outcomes listed below.
Outcomes:
• To establish and train an Enterprise Champion in every school, college, training provider and organisation that works with young people
• To improve young people’s knowledge of the value of the Big 13 Enterprise Skills
• To produce more young entrepreneurs and business start-ups
• To enable more young people to access the Youth Enterprise Bank
• More young people participating in enterprise challenges with sustainable business outcomes
• Hull’s businesses have opportunities to share their successes with young people and in turn contribute to young people’s experience of enterprise
• Hear young entrepreneurs talk about their “enterprise” journey
• To give young people more skills to be “work ready”
• Enable young people to explore / identify what the business needs from them
• Allow young people to articulate their ideas and energy in a language understood by business
• To highlight enterprise as a progression pathway
“I am very passionate about enterprise and ensuring young people have the opportunity to engage in it! Out of all of the City’s UK wide, Hull are the best at engaging real entrepreneurs, successful business and partnering them with the young people of the city. I believe if I had have been brought up in Hull and had the privilege to experience what they do I would have made my millions a lot earlier.
With the current economic state it is crucial we get our businesses to engage with young people to make them excited about the working world and help them build a successful future, that is why I am pleased to support Hull's Youth Enterprise Charter and i would ask you to contribute to its ongoing development!”
Friday, 29 June 2012
John Cracknell Enterprise Bank Deadline Round 4
If you are aware of any potential applicants please let us know and or encourage them to apply.
Thursday, 28 June 2012
Young entrepreneur launches hair raising business
A nineteen year old entrepreneur has launched a business that will provide specialist support to those suffering hair loss as a result of cancer treatment or conditions such as alopecia.
Amy Taylor from Keyingham first came up with the idea for her business, Hair by Amy, X months ago. Amy is a fully qualified hairdresser and has been working in salons for four years and in that time has supported a number of cancer patients. She saw a gap in the market for business offering bespoke services to those in need of wigs.
Amy’s business will provide a range of services including sourcing and styling of wigs, supporting her customers when their hair grows back and providing general hairdressing services.
“I’ve seen family and friends go through cancer treatment and lose their hair. By speaking to them and by doing my own research I’ve found that for a lot of people who are losing their hair, going to a normal salon isn’t a great experience for them. Those that do offer private consultations are really expensive. I want to put my customers at ease and make them feel comfortable and where better to do that than in their own home.
“With the grant from the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank I am now able to fulfil my dreams and set up my business. The support they continue to give me has been fantastic and I would recommend that other young people who have a business idea to speak to them.”
The bank is funded through a range of donations from entrepreneurs, together with the City Council’s Hull Training. It is also closely linked to the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership, which aims to encourage young people to become more enterprising and contribute to Hull City Council's target of creating 1,200 new businesses. The bank's funding last year received a funding boost from KC, which has donated £60,000 to the bank over three years.
“Amy is exactly the reason why we supported the Youth Enterprise Bank. She is a determined and thoughtful young lady that has not only developed a great business plan, but she is giving a fantastic service to a group of people in our community when they need it most. I wish Amy the best of luck with her business.”
As well as financial support, Amy will undertake the International Association of Bookkeepers Level 1 Award in Computerised Accounting for Business QCF offered by Golding Computer Services Ltd.
Di Garbera, Golding’s General Manager said: “We’re delighted to support the Youth Enterprise Bank by providing training to local young entrepreneurs. Accounting knowledge is a must for all businesses and young start-ups are no exception.”
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Friday, 22 June 2012
Support Hull's Global Entreprenurship Week - Call to arms
Following on from yet another highly successful Business Week in Hull & the Humber.
Plans are already in place for the next celebration of enterprise in the area, Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012. that with the backing of Hull and East Riding’s business community will take place from the 12th – 16th November in order to support a celebration of enterprise for Hull and East Riding schools and colleges. The week will feature five major conferences in the city for young people aged 9 to 21 as they learn about the world of enterprise, as well as an Awards evening.
Organisers are looking for more sponsors and supporters for the Week current sponsors are the Co-operative, Hull City Council, St Stephen’s, Hull Training, Arco, Insurance Partnership, CityWorks, Hull College, University of Hull, Neil Hudgell Solicitors, Malet Lambert School, KC, Hull College Studio School, Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce, Andrew Marvell College, Victoria Dock Primary School, Jenko, Force-7, GH Events, Blair Jacobs, Thomas Arran Photography, Amanda’s Blue Orchid, Garbera Enterprises, Xing Education, the Institute of Directors, Mail News and Media and John Meehan.
The week will also see the final of the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge www.hullbadgers.co.uk in which the winners of the three sections of Primary, Secondary and Post 16, get the opportunity to double the investment in their enterprising idea from earlier rounds by showing how enterprising they are to Ruth Badger herself and a panel of business leaders. Claire Young has also kindly offered to spend a day during that week in one of your Primary schools to help and support the children in planning a school prom.
Councillor Steven Bayes Economic Regeneration & Employment said
“ This is the eighth year that Hull has celebrated how enterprising its young people are”
“Enterprise is a vital contributor to the health of Hull’s economy and to diversity of opportunity within our society. That is why the Council supports the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership’s ambition to make our area the best place in the world for young people to start and grow a business. As part of this ambition, how Global Entrepreneurship week is seeking to achieve a change in the perception of enterprise and entrepreneurship amongst its young people, ensuring that they have the information they need is an important tool in realising that change. I hope that more businesses however large or small will get involved.”
Ruth Badger Patron Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership said
“I am an ardent supporter of Global Entrepreneurship Week and what Hull is doing to support its young entreprenurs and develop an entrepreneurial can do culture in the City. My hope is that today's young people go on to aspire to set up their own businesses, start social enterprises to improve their communities and be innovative employees themselves. Your area is doing a great deal to support their enterprising young person which makes me proud to be involved in this Festival of Enterprise and would urge business leaders to help me to achieve this”
If you want to see what happens during the week than please check out our YouTube site www.youtube.com/user/GEWHull2011 that features last years events and than contact Charles Cracknell via 01482 – 612983 or charles.cracknell@hullcc.gov.uk to discuss how you can get involved in this festival of enterprise.
Plans are already in place for the next celebration of enterprise in the area, Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012. that with the backing of Hull and East Riding’s business community will take place from the 12th – 16th November in order to support a celebration of enterprise for Hull and East Riding schools and colleges. The week will feature five major conferences in the city for young people aged 9 to 21 as they learn about the world of enterprise, as well as an Awards evening.
Organisers are looking for more sponsors and supporters for the Week current sponsors are the Co-operative, Hull City Council, St Stephen’s, Hull Training, Arco, Insurance Partnership, CityWorks, Hull College, University of Hull, Neil Hudgell Solicitors, Malet Lambert School, KC, Hull College Studio School, Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce, Andrew Marvell College, Victoria Dock Primary School, Jenko, Force-7, GH Events, Blair Jacobs, Thomas Arran Photography, Amanda’s Blue Orchid, Garbera Enterprises, Xing Education, the Institute of Directors, Mail News and Media and John Meehan.
The week will also see the final of the Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge www.hullbadgers.co.uk in which the winners of the three sections of Primary, Secondary and Post 16, get the opportunity to double the investment in their enterprising idea from earlier rounds by showing how enterprising they are to Ruth Badger herself and a panel of business leaders. Claire Young has also kindly offered to spend a day during that week in one of your Primary schools to help and support the children in planning a school prom.
Councillor Steven Bayes Economic Regeneration & Employment said
“ This is the eighth year that Hull has celebrated how enterprising its young people are”
“Enterprise is a vital contributor to the health of Hull’s economy and to diversity of opportunity within our society. That is why the Council supports the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership’s ambition to make our area the best place in the world for young people to start and grow a business. As part of this ambition, how Global Entrepreneurship week is seeking to achieve a change in the perception of enterprise and entrepreneurship amongst its young people, ensuring that they have the information they need is an important tool in realising that change. I hope that more businesses however large or small will get involved.”
“I am an ardent supporter of Global Entrepreneurship Week and what Hull is doing to support its young entreprenurs and develop an entrepreneurial can do culture in the City. My hope is that today's young people go on to aspire to set up their own businesses, start social enterprises to improve their communities and be innovative employees themselves. Your area is doing a great deal to support their enterprising young person which makes me proud to be involved in this Festival of Enterprise and would urge business leaders to help me to achieve this”
If you want to see what happens during the week than please check out our YouTube site www.youtube.com/user/GEWHull2011 that features last years events and than contact Charles Cracknell via 01482 – 612983 or charles.cracknell@hullcc.gov.uk to discuss how you can get involved in this festival of enterprise.
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Budding Hull entrepreneurs are being urged to make the most of a new fund aimed at helping them set up their own business
The new national StartUp Loans scheme was launched recently and Hull business leaders and members of the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership are keen to see local young people take full advantage.
The scheme will offer finance and support to entrepreneurs, aged 18-24, in a bid to kick-start more businesses and tackle youth unemployment. Applicants will receive advice and guidance, with the most promising going on to receive formal mentoring and training, including help with developing a business plan. Those with “robust and approved” plans will then be eligible for loans of around £2,500.
In Hull and the East Riding it will complement the work of the city’s Youth Enterprise Bank that gives grants of up to £1,000 to young people aged 21 and under that live in Hull and the East riding.
“The support and advice available through this scheme could help local young entrepreneurs turn an idea and a proposal into a real business. We would urge young people to find out more and look to secure valuable funds working alongside the city’s Youth Enterprise Bank that could help get their business off the ground.”
Councillor Steven Bayes Portfolio Holder, Portfolio Holder, Economic Regeneration and Employment said:
"We would certainly encourage young people from across the Humber looking to set up their own business to explore how this scheme could help them. As with other initiatives such as the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank , which is also available to young people in Hull and the East Riding young , people can pick up support in a variety of ways including help in putting together a business plan right through to receiving a loan to set up the business."
The maximum repayment terms on offer with the loans will be five years, while the interest rate will be set at the Retail Price Index (RPI) plus 3%. All repayments and interest will be channelled back into a central pot to support other young entrepreneurs.
To find out more people should visit www.startupbritain.org/loans and www.youthenterprise.co.uk
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