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…
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…
So, we’re back at work: it’s January, it’s cold, and Christmas has become a dim and distant memory.
The new year and return to work often serves as the occasion for some serious navel-gazing and introspection, which leads to the annual parade of resolutions, targets, and reinventions.
If you are one of the many pondering the year Read more…
I risked life and limb yesterday as I strapped on ice skates for the first time ever to celebrate the culmination of this year’s Second Chance programme with Team Northumbria, from Northumbria University.
The Second Chance scheme offers disadvantaged adults the opportunity to participate in a structured sport and education programme, whilst also integrating with similar individuals Read more…
Inspired by Global Entrepreneurship Week a group of UK entrepreneurs have decided to sell the world’s first 24 Hour Start Up on ebay!
So, that was Global Entrepreneurship Week, that was.
What a week. I attended a microscopic fraction of even the events that were held in UK: the people who attended even this tiny sample of events were drawn from all walks of life and each had their own highly distinctive story to tell. If the week taught me Read more…
It came as no surprise when we found that women from across the Yorkshire and Humber region were getting involved with Women’s Enterprise Day on 18 November 2009.
With a host of events it was great to see the enthusiasm of those who were considering starting out, alongside those who already have success stories to Read more…
I have started a part time internship at Enterprise UK. Apart from gaining invaluable experience, it has set me thinking…
If you’re anything like me you would have left university being very scared of starting your career. ‘So what are you going to do with your life!?’ asked by all family members, whilst ‘There are NO Read more…
This morning the redoubtable Make Your Mark comms and education teams – together with a little help from our friends at Threepipe – assembled on Blackheath Common in south London to stage an ambitious photo shoot with 180 schoolkids to launch the Make Your Mark Challenge.
We wanted our launch photograph to encapsulate in a visual and memorable fashion Read more…
What a great idea – David from Southport has put his life savings into an invention which I’m sure most people would say was very innovative! The ‘balloon hanger’ allows you to hand multiple balloons at once without fear of pinging elastic and escaping plastic. He quit his job as an ambulance driver last year Read more…
Yes its true. Well its true in the sense that a man with a laundry business dressed up as Superman and washed some clothes on the plinth in Trafalgar Square.
What a great example of how a small business can punch above their weight and get national exposure – off the back of his appearance he Read more…
Do you view celebrities as entrepreneurs?
Their are some very interesting views on this one in the Make Your Mark Forum, to find out what they are join in and have your say. From Rhianna umbrellas to Bill Oddie Binoculars.
Join in on the forum and wet your entreprenuerial appetitie with topics from your big idea to being networked.
See you in the Read more…
Nominations for the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion 2010 have now opened. Lord Mandelson suggests that ‘recipients of The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion (QAEP) are outstanding individuals who are inspiring tomorrow’s entrepreneurs and giving them the skills and attitudes they need to succeed’ and that ‘they hold the key to unlocking Britain’s entrepreneurial talents Read more…
This week the topic of discussion at Make Your Mark has been the family. On wednesday Make Your Mark Ambassador Fleur Emery who set up successful organic porridge business Team Grasshopperwith her sister Abi came down to Make Your Mark HQ to give us the low down on working with the family in our lunch time Read more…
Whilst many of you were having a lie in on Saturday, I was on the 6.39 train to Canterbury to attend UK Youth Parliament’s 9th annual sitting where Make Your Mark shared with the members the secrets of networking.
For everyone this was their first taste of speednetworking and they loved it, although they are all campaigning for the Read more…
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