Make Your Mark Blog

This week is Shine Week, a national celebration of young people’s talents.

Britain’s young people are by nature an enterprising bunch, but here at the Make Your Mark campaign we believe more needs to be done to encourage the focus and application of talent in an enterprising way, which can lead to making money and/or social good.

We are today calling for enterprise education to focus on enterprise mindsets such as a can-do attitude and ability to take risks, rather than teaching business theory which will be tired when today’s students become tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.

The Future Face of Enterprise report, published by Demos and commissioned by us, suggests that we need to prepare young people with mindsets which can adapt to the changing industries and challenges of the future.

We’re also using the Shine week to showcase our network of more than 300 Make Your Mark Clubs across the UK, space for students to run real life businesses and take risks in a safe environment.

The students are taking their talents – from bee-keeping, web knowledge and gardening through to art and a passion for fair-trade – and turning them into money making ideas. In addition many of their ventures are making a difference to their community or to a wider social or environmental issue. Some have linked up with local companies to solve real-life business issues or to fundraise for international causes.

Tell us what you think? How can we further encourage enterprising mindsets?

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