The Networks team here at the Make Your Mark Campaign produces a monthly newsletter bringing you the latest news from the world of networks. Get it here: connect-newsletter_mar08.pdf
Take a look inside this edition for a word on Social Enterprise from Phil Tulba, Make Your Mark’s Social Enterprise Campaigner and find out more about becoming a Read more…
Check out the latest BBC online blog http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7315598.stm
from entrepreneur and Make Your Mark ambassador Kulveer – who has just sold his company which he runs with his cousin for ‘millions of dollars’.
His move to Sillicon Valley in the States has undoubtedly played a part and I wonder whether we can ever hope to reproduce this Read more…
Channel 4 is looking for 16 to 21 year olds…
…to take part in a new and exciting interactive project.
Interesting Year Ahead?
In the next 12 months are you hoping to achieve a certain goal? Deal with personal issues? Make a professional dream a reality? Address relationship problems with family or friends? Get your life back Read more…
The Innovation Edge Conference – Tuesday, 20th May 2008
NESTA’s Innovation Edge conference is an unrivalled opportunity to get under the skin of innovation in the UK – and consider the impact it will have on our future.
The conference brings together a powerful mix of experts from industry, culture, politics and academia. Bob Geldof, Lord Puttnam, Read more…
A speaker event on how to be a great entrepreneur in the workplace!
Wednesday 9th April 6 – 8.30pm at the British Library Conference Centre
Are you creative, enterprising and innovative in the workplace?
Are you bursting with ideas on how your company could innovate it’s internal systems or external services?
Do you know how to manage this energy Read more…
The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion is an Award designed to celebrate and recognise the activities of individuals who have played an outstanding and significant role in promoting enterprise skills and attitudes in others in the UK.They are looking for:
Entrepreneurs, businessmen and women, inventors and innovators who give their time and, Read more…
Students from Trafford College who competed in the Make Your Mark Challenge national final in Dec 07 are now going to represent England at the Global Entrepreneurship Challenge at the European event in Germany.
Their tutor Amanda said ‘My students learned so much from the Make Your Mark Challenge in London that I am positive of Read more…
Women’s lives have improved beyond recognition in Britain and other rich countries in recent years – although we still have some way to go!
International Women’s Day, which took place last Saturday, is about celebrating the achievements of women and encouraging them to achieve their full potential – but what about girls and women in Read more…
Kirill Makharinsky, 21, and Bob Goodson, 27 have just launched a new website for start-ups. It is called YouNoodle and is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies.
You can browse innovative startups and follow their progress. You can also register your own startup and use YouNoodle to build up a following Read more…
Have you seen the Government’s new Enterprise Strategy?
You can view it at http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/budget/budget_08/documents/bud_bud08_enterprise.cfm
Make Your Mark welcomes the focus on untapped potential in new strategy.
Commenting on the strategy Harry Rich, Make Your Mark Chief Executive, commented: “We welcome the strategy’s endorsement of our achievements to date and look forward to building on this success. Since Read more…
Are you an employee who would really like to start a business? What’s holding you back? Well, the Household Survey of Entrepreneurship identified five key barriers for employees who want to start up a business including:
Fear of debt
Fear of failure
Losing the security of a job
Worry of not making enough money
Not enough time to put into Read more…
Did you know that the Make Your Mark campaign has an office in Tees Valley?
Julie Nelson, Networks Campaigner for Make Your Mark in Tees Valley is excited by the number of local networks that have recently become involved with the campaign. In the last 8 weeks a total of 20 networks have joined the campaign, Read more…
It’s International Women’s Day tomorrow and entrepreneurs have been using it as a chance to shout about the great female success stories out there and bang the drum for Make Your Mark. Apparently we were mentioned in the House of Lords yesterday in a debate about International Women’s Day and Lynne Franks spoke to Telegraph Read more…
Want to start your own business?
Got an idea and need to know how to make it happen?
Want to take your small business to the next level?
Not even thought about starting a business?
Then you need to get your enterprise muscles into shape at the… Spark Women’s Business Workout!
What’s it all about?
The Women’s Business Workout is a Read more…
Kasabian, the cast of Eastenders and JK & Joel have each customised a ball and they are being auctioned on ebay for Sport Relief – as part of Make Your Mark with a Ball. You have until 16th March to make your bid, so what are you waiting for?!
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZmakeyourmarkwithaball
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