Enterprising Young Brit finalist Vicki Psarias is making her mark in the film world, scooping up the Channel 4 4Talent Award for Best Writer/Director for her short film Broken.
You can read an interview with Vicki at http://www.channel4.com/4talent/ten4/vickipsarias.htm and find out more about her work at www.vpsarias.co.uk/
Well done Vicki!
More than 150 people in Merthyr Tydfil discovered the advantages to being their own boss during a local enterprise campaign.
Budding entrepreneurs of all ages in Merthyr were given help to get their business ideas off the ground with a series of activities held during Enterprise Week.
The campaign was a key part of the local council’s commitment to boost new business and create the world-beating entrepreneurs of the future. The Enterprise Week - the first ever held in Merthyr – gained such a positive response that requests have been made to repeat the event next year.
NOP GFK research suggests that initiatives like Enterprise Week are having an impact on young people’s attitudes and behaviour; with over a third (35%) feeling they have the personal qualities needed to develop a business idea, up from 26% in 2005.
Between 2005 and 2006 there were also increases in the proportions of young people actively engaging in enterprise activities. The most popular activity for over a quarter of young people (27%, up from 22% in 2005) is running or owning a website with commercial potential.
The research reveals that of the young people that are already thinking about setting up an enterprise, 85% do not see their youth preventing them from taking their ideas forward (up from 75% in 2005).
Here at MYM we are lucky enough to have a massive database of Women’s Enterprise Ambassadors (young women who have successfully set up their own businesses) from all over the country who are ready and willing to volunteer to come along to your school/youth club/event and help inspire young women into becoming more enterprising. They do this through running assemblies, talking to 6th form classes, speaking about their business experiences and lots more…
Sounds a great scheme to me.
At Lauder College in Dunfermline Fife, the Skillextra Plus group took part in The Apprentice activity at the Access Centre with Learning for Work Advisor Gaynor Jamieson on the 13th November 2007 as part of Enterprise Week 2007.
The Apprenticeship task is an enterprising activity, which equips learners with skills such as commercial awareness, creativity, ideas generation, leadership and project management.
The Skillextra group demonstrated and applied enterprising skills, attitudes and values such as self-awareness, self confidence, creativity, initiative, communication, decision making, problem solving and teamwork. The group was split into two teams who named themselves the “Panda Pods” and “Little Princesses” and designed and produced two items of jewellery.
Today marked the launch of Eastbourne Youth Radio’s annual stint of broadcasting, when young people from local schools and colleges will provide 50 hours of broadcast to their community. It’s the seventh year that Eastbourne’s young people have had the chance to rule the airwaves whilst working together to learn about media production in a scheme ru by Eastbourn Education Business Partnership.
i met a really interesting young entrepreneur from poland today called jaroslaw kotowski, but he thankfully let me call him jerry.
he recently started up a company called geomedika, a ‘medical tourism’ company that offers full service polish medical treatment services to international clients - without the long waits and high fees. they offer treatment in general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, plastic surgery and dentistry. (i hate to mention it but do you remember the episode on coronation street when that crusty-but-fabulous blanche went to poland for a hip replacement? jerry’s company facilitates trips like that.)
Some fab feedback from the pupils of President Kennedy School who attended the Girls! Make Your Mark event in Liverpool on 14th November:
“I am Kiran Chand and was one of the students who attended the ‘girls make your mark’ event on the 14th November. I knew that it would be business related, and was eager to attend as I have been doing business studies for just over two years now.
To celebrate Enterprise Week, Brighton-based youth enterprise initiative, YES Network, hosted an innovative event called ‘Enterprise Changes Lives’ at The Basement, Brighton, on Tuesday 13th November. The event featured inspirational talks from successful young entrepreneurs, speed-networking and a mini-exhibition and was open to anyone aged 18 -30.
Speakers at the event included Brighton-based Raj Anand, who at 25 has already started his own highly successful internet business, Kwiqq.com. Raj is Business Week’s European Young Entrepreneur 2007 and Kwiqq supplies blue-chip clients worldwide, with bespoke social networking solutions from their offices at the Sussex Innovation Centre.
I just read a fascinating article about 132 people who got together on a Friday night with the intention of starting a company but with no idea of what it would do, and 54 hours later they had finished!
It’s part of an interesting venture called Startup Weekend. It appears to be a one man show that gets people together for a weekend to start a company and keeps 5% of the profits from the created company to fund further Startup Weekends.
Make Your Mark ambassador and TV presenter June Sarpong is giving young people the chance to claim a share of £1 million to help tackle the dangers of drugs and crime, and play a positive role in their community.
The 18-month Prince’s Trust initiative will see June and Davina McCall host a series of heated debates where young people are empowered to give their opinions on issues that matter to them.
The Government’s new 10-year youth strategy boasts a youth club in every neighbourhood, improved facilities, coming of age ceremonies, a recognised Youth Week and a National Institute of Youth Leadership. But only 27% of people in the UK think that young people play a positive role in their community in Britain today.
i just read an article by stephen tyler in the telegraph on dyslexic entrepreneurs. tyler argues that dyslexic entrepreneurs are more likely to take risks than non-dyslexic entrepreneurs because - get this - they simply don’t understand figures.
i think the argument is twaddle for a couple reasons:
1- “julie logan, professor of entrepreneurship, said: “we measured propensity for risk taking and it was absolutely the same [for dyslexic entrepreneurs] as non-dyslexic entrepreneurs…”
Mon 12th November ‘07: Blablake School:-
Solared Powered Golf Buggy
Our idea was to make a Golf Buggy that is more economical than the traditional Golf Buggy that is run off of petrol or with an electric battery. Our idea would be more economical because it would be powered by solar panels that would be placed on the roof of the buggy. In the winter the solar panels will not be very effective due to a lack of sunlight so there will be an electric motor also placed onto the buggy. The golf Buggies will be a huge success in sunny countries such as Portugal and Spain, therefore the Buggies would be in high demand in those countries. The buggies will not only be used on golf courses but in parks and other places where maintenance men need a way of transport around the site that they are working in. The solar panels will be placed on all sorts of Buggies: 2 seater, 4 seater, 6 seater all with enough space for the golf clubs. Some buggies will not have somewhere for golf clubs but they will have a basket for the tools that a workman might have with him. While I and my team were working on the idea we all had jobs to do such as: market research and financial issues.
Social Enterprise day was fantastic. After launching the day at a school in London myself and the three other finalists of the Make Your Mark in 60 Seconds Competition, along with Phil Hope, other business owners and journalists travelled across London on a big red bus in order to be introduced to various social enterprises and people. It was inspiring, really inspiring. There are SO many people out there who want to make a difference.
I have to be honest with you, like, completely and utterly honest… I want a million pound. Well, technically I want more than a million pound, one would just be the start. Okay, the point is I want to be rich. You know what? Who doesnt want to be rich? Most people do which is why they spend 100’s of pounds a year on lottery tickets and scratch cards, its why there are millions of people who want to set up their own business. People want to free from the chains of financially slavery and an over bearing boss. It’s perfectly okay to want to be a millionaire, of course it is.
The British Library hosted a great event last night featuring Sophi Tranchell from Divine Chocolate, Tim Campbell from the Bright Ideas Trust, Kresse Wesling from EAKO and two other businesses, and Zoreen from Justgiving.
They were FANTASTIC and took questions from the knowledge-hungry audience really well! Anyone that wants to set up a social enterprise should definitely look up these great people and get some inspiration from them.
They also spearheaded a discussion on what a social enterprise really is. I think we got generl consensus that it’s a profit-making business with social aims - even if a the business has some private stakeholders. That should make it a bit easier for young social enterprises to find funding from private investors!
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