Northwest Region Awards
EN Magazine North West Entrepreneur Awards 2010 – EN Magazine’s North West Entrepreneur of the Year Awards scheme, now in its ninth year, exists to honour the achievements of the region’s most tenacious and successful entrepreneurs – and to provide encouragement and a standard against which they can measure themselves to those who Read more…
Nigeria has joined the growing roster of countries to have officially gotten their Global Entrepreneurship Week campaigns off the mark. On a lively opening night in Lagos, a mix of policy makers, financial institutions, academics and 254 Nigerian SMEs were present to witness the launch and discuss the event’s theme, ‘Building credible SMEs in tough Read more…
This week saw the small island nation of Mauritius getting its Global Entrepreneurship Week preparations off to a big start with the Entrepreneurial Training Workshop. The programme has been organised by the Week’s organisers on the island, Empretec Mauritius. This week’s ETW is one of a series of six Workshops that Empretec is organising in the build Read more…
Northwest Ambassador Chris Arnold has launched a worldwide competition which will see participants compete and develop skills in enterprise and social responsibility. The winners will receive a once in a lifetime prize to travel the world for a year meeting entrepreneurs and world leaders.
‘Your Big Year’ is an official ‘Global Entrepreneurship Week’ event that provides Read more…
On the 29th April 2010, Jo Cocker (Women’s Enterprise Development Manager, NWDA) and Sarah Bevan-Fisher (NW Regional Director, Enterprise UK) ran 2 workshops at a Swedish Women’s Enterprise Ambassador Conference in Stockholm. They were invited by Henrietta Schonenstern from the Swedish Agency for Economic & Regional Growth.
The workshops showcased the Northwest’s unique approach to the ambassador Read more…
The Virgin Media Pioneers Manchester Meet up accommodated some very cool people including Enterprise UK representatives and an exclusive network of ‘Virgin Media Pioneer’ entrepreneurs. The event was held at the very atmospheric Corner House Lounge and proved to be a relaxed way for the entrepreneurs to interact and inspire each other.
Not only did they Read more…
The Newcastle United Foundation’s Enterprise Academy celebrated its first birthday this week with a special anniversary event at St. James’ Park. Under the fantastic management of Sam McLoughlin, the Enterprise Academy has proved to be a resounding success in its first year with students from 20 schools across Newcastle, Northumberland, Gateshead and North Tyneside reaping the Read more…
Nationally we’re all of a quiver about the general election, the closest fought battle for many a year and like a good slap-stick comedy we’re all watching just to see who walks over the open man-hole next, or which guy ducks when the guy with the ladder over his shoulder spins round. We’re not nearly Read more…
An entire school of enterprising students from Blakeston School in Stockton turned their assembly hall into a bustling marketplace for the day as part of the national Make your Mark with a Tenner competition, and I was there to witness the madness! During the last Friday of the Tenner Challenge Month all 585 students from Blakestone School were Read more…
Enterprise UK is running a series of ‘Manifesto Camps’ exploring the biggest issues for entrepreneurs in the UK and how these problems could be solved; with ideas feeding into the Enterprise Manifesto.This week’s session looked at the future of entrepreneurship, including the best ways to encourage social entrepreneurship and social innovation. Setting the scene for Read more…
Enterprise UK is running a series of ‘Manifesto Camps’ exploring the biggest issues for entrepreneurs in the UK and how these problems could be solved; with ideas feeding into the Enterprise Manifesto.
This week’s session was dedicated to the best ways to support entrepreneurs. Shadow Business Secretary Mark Prisk MP was present and echoed general concern Read more…
The first session discussed enterprise culture and how to develop young people’s entrepreneurial potential through education. The importance of role models was also brought up, along with the need to educate parents that entrepreneurship is an acceptable career path. The old question of whether entrepreneurs are born or bred arose.
In terms of the school curriculum, we need to re-examine what students are assessed on. It was also emphasised that being entrepreneurial is not only about starting a business but about starting anything in life.
This week’s session looked at the enterprise environment and how to make the UK the easiest place in the world to start and grow a business. Guests were asked to imagine enterprise heaven and describe what that would look like. Everyone’s thoughts drifted towards a simple, virtual, 24/7 one-stop-shop for entrepreneurs. It was suggested that everyone could have an Enterprise Passport, collecting ‘credits’ for entrepreneurial activities.
The Civic Offices at Cannock Chase was the venue for the latest West Midlands Enterprising Places Network. It followed the theme of the first EPN during December – Think Enterprise – to look at the problems young people face and how to address them best, this time looking at the young people in the Cannock Chase Read more…
In 2008 we (Enterprise UK – or Make Your Mark as we were known back then) published ‘The Future Face Of Enterprise’, a collection of viewpoints. We asked over 50 entrepreneurs, business people, industry experts, social commentators, academics what they thought would shape the future face of enterprise in the UK.
Two years later and we’re Read more…
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