Make Your Mark in 60 seco
nds!
And the winner is... After a week-long public vote we can announce that the winner of Make Your Mark in 60 Seconds stage 2 is...
Their idea for ethically, organically, locally produced frozen yoghurt won the public vote and will now receive up to £5,000 plus support from UnLtd to make the idea a reality.
The winner was announced at the Young Voice 08 conference by Tim Campbell, from the Apprentice and Bright Ideas Trust and Cliff Prior, Chief Executive of UnLtd.
The three other finalists will also receive support from UnLtd to develop their fantastic ideas.
Congratulations to FroYo! We can't wait to taste your frozen goodies.
The final four were:
3. The Top Spot
4. FroYoNext steps for your idea
If you were unsuccessful don’t despair as your idea still may be eligible for support through UnLtd’s various awards programmes – visit www.unltd.org.uk for more information.If you would like to connect to other young people to make your idea happen you can also visit www.makeyourmarkconnect.org and if you’re in school or college you could set up a Make Your Mark Club by visiting www.makeyourmarkclub.org
Young Voice08 – the UK conference for young minds with social ambition
Have you got a brilliant business idea that would make the world a better place? Are you still searching for inspiration or does your idea just need fine tuning? Either way Young Voice08 is the chance to meet like-minded people, take part in debates, discuss ideas, network and get one step closer to changing the world.This half-day event on Tuesday 26th February focused on young social entrepreneurs from 14 to 30 in the European City of Culture – Liverpool. For more information visit the Young Voice website
About the competition
Make Your Mark in 60 Seconds is the brainchild of leading players in the social enterprise world, made possible by UnLtd, the Make Your Mark campaign, ?What If!, Bebo, the Social Enterprise Coalition and the Office of the Third Sector working with many others.
We're looking for many thousands of young people and hundreds of schools, colleges and universities to get involved.
Download the Make Your Mark in 60 seconds flyer (PDF - 504KB).
View behind the scenes photos from the filming of Make Your Mark in 60 seconds.
Make Your Mark in 60 seconds - the story so far...
What people are saying about the competition
Joanna Shields, President, Bebo:
"Young people are living their lives out online sharing their passions, discovering and exchanging new ideas and concepts and using their digital literacy as a means of expressing their identities. Social Networks have heralded an enormous shift in the way in which people spend their time and have created new opportunities for young entrepreneurs to share and gain feedback on their ideas and to discover and offer support to good causes within their community. Bebo launched the BeCause Awards in partnership with UnLtd in Spring 2007 and the programme has gained enormous support from the Bebo community - we believe the Make Your Mark campaign is an exciting next step for users to impact social and environmental change."
Cliff Prior, Chief Executive, UnLtd:
"Social Enterprise Day is a great opportunity to engage with young people and to inspire them into action. UnLtd funds and supports some of the brightest young social entrepreneurs the UK has, and this day is a chance for us to expand our reach even further and to encourage more creative young people to put their ideas into action."
"We are really excited to be involved in the Make Your Mark in 60 Seconds campaign this year. The future of social entrepreneurship lies with young people and this is an inspiring way to reach young people across the UK. UnLtd belives in the impact that young people can have; we hope that MYM in 60 Seconds will help create a new wave of change that is inspired by young people, for young people."
Celia Hodson, Deputy Chief Executive, Social Enterprise Coalition:
'The Social Enterprise Coaliition is really excited to be part of the Make Your Mark: Change Lives campaign. Make Your Mark in 60 seconds is a fun and interactive way to introduce social enterprise to the next generation. The mixture of competition, social networking, celebrity and the chance to win £5,000 is a great way to get people on board.'
Phil Hope MP, Minister for the Third Sector:
“Social enterprise offers young people a fantastic opportunity to combine their enterprising ideas with a passion for social and environmental change.”
Phil Tulba of Make Your Mark:
“From community recording studios through to fair-trade fashion and lift-share schemes, there is an ever burgeoning movement of young social entrepreneurs who are making a difference to the world around them – and making money at the same time. Make your Mark in 60 seconds is a brilliant opportunity for young people to think about the positive impact their enterprising ideas could have.”
One of the UK’s most well known entrepreneurs, Peter Jones, believes that young people’s ideas can go a long way to solving social and environmental issues. He comments: “It is possible to make money and change the world but to do so you need to be as rigorous as you would be coming up with a purely commercial idea. Start small but think big about the impact you can have on a particular issue, and collaborate with others to help you achieve it.”
Make Your Mark: Change Lives
Make Your Mark: Change Lives is a campaig
n to inspire young people
(14-30) to use enterprising ideas for social or environmental change.
The campaign aims to bring together national partners across the fields of enterprise and education to deliver a number of activities during the year. It is co-ordinated by Make Your Mark and the
Social Enterprise Coalition with support from
the Office of the Third Sector
Social Enterprise Day
Social Enterprise Day is part of national Enterprise Week and took place on 15 November 2007.
Download the Make Your Mark Change Lives flyer (PDF - 609KB).
To find out what happened on Social Enterprise Day you can read the Social Enterprise Coalition's diary of the day or alternatively you can check out our very own Make Your Mark blog.
To be inspired download a pdf copy of the trailblazers magazine 2007 (PDF - 2.38MB), which features more case studies and articles. The 2007 version will be availble in November. To pre-order copies email phil@makeyourmark.org.uk
Watch this video for more examples of successful social enterprises across the UK
Email andrew@makeyourmark.org.uk for DVD copies.
What is social enterprise?
'Social enterprise' as a term doesn't mean all that much to many of us, but you will have heard of many social enterprises - Jamie Oliver's Fifteen, the Eden Project and the Big Issue are just a few high profile examples. Social enterprises are simply businesses with aims which are primarily social or environmental and whose surpluses are ploughed back into the business or community rather than for personal gain.
Here are a few facts about social enterprise:
- Social enterprises generate £27 billion a year in the UK.
- There are at least 55,000 social enterprises with employees in the UK that fit the government's definition of social enterprise.
- Social enterprises exist in a wide range of sectors - from health to retail to real estate.
- A new form of limited company has been introduced specifically for social enterprises. The Community Interest Company (CIC) was established in July 2005. There are now 500 CICs registered. Find out more from the CIC Regulator.