Enterprise UK Blog

Laura and I were invited along to attend the Young People’s Centre in Hillfields Coventry for a special evening celebrating the Young Entrepreneur.  With a theme of  “Inspiring young people to change their World” it certainly gave us plenty of food for thought. programme of speakers from all industries, music, fashion – our own ambassador Mr Lee Blake of 59fifty clothing - science, new media and hairdressing, the main message shone through young people can achieve anything no matter their background.

Osaba Enriched Life Services and ACCOL have supported Enterprise Week by holding a series of free events – one for each day of Enterprise Week.    Tuesday evening’s programme saw a 

Many of the speakers had challenging backgrounds – whether they’d not acheived at school, or been involved in criminal activity and received a criminal record. 

As older attendees who worked with the kids in the area told us that their area was known as being a deprived area where criminal activity does take place and its all too easy for young people to fall in with a bad crowd.  To have positive stories for the young people of the area to listen to – can and certainly will make a difference.

Here’s hoping for more Hillfields youngsters Making their Mark in a positive way a few years from now.

This entry was posted on Friday, November 21st, 2008 at 5:41 pm and is filed under Global Entrepreneurship Week. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.