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…
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…
Three of our Enterprise UK Ambassadors have had their entrepreneurial talent recognised and rewarded at the third annual Northwest Women in Business Awards.
Best Young Entrepreneur WINNER – Anna Heyes
Best Young Entrepreneur RUNNER UP – Lucy Byrne
Best Start Up Business RUNNER UP – Vicky Corcoran
Congratulations to all of you!
For more details about this years awards go Read more…
I have great pleasure in announcing that Chloe Peters from Beacon Hill High School in Blackpool won the Make Your Mark Club Most Enterprising Female Student Award 2009.
I went to visit Chloe and her team mates and was extremely inspired by all that the Fairtrade Fairytales have been up to. Fairtrade Fairytales are a group 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…
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…
I rang a teacher friend of mine last night, who was enjoying a few drinks and a late night take away before having a long lie in this morning and then jetting off on a three week holiday this weekend. As I was battling with delayed tubes, flooded stations and the prospect of another day Read more…
I have had a fab week and that’s because I got to meet some of the enterprise groups which are part of the Make Your Mark Club!
On Friday 10 July, the Make Your Mark Club team were at The Studio, in Birmingham hosting a Club Meet-up for some of our budding entrepreneurial students. Enterprise groups Read more…
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Make Your Mark is currently in the process of developing a student alumni scheme for young people who have taken part in the fabulous MYM activities such as Make Your Mark Challenge, Make your Mark Club and Make Your mark with a Tenner.
This is going to be the chance to support Read more…
The HSBC’s Future of Business report has identified four new types of future entrepreneurs.
1) The Referral Economists: commercially-minded folk who have emerged from the social networking boom. 2) The Slash Slash Careerist: the product of the MySpace School of business who see themselves as brands and their customers as fans. 3) The Collaborateer: walks the Read more…
The summer term is well underway and here in the Education corner at Make Your Mark HQ we are very excited about all the great things we have on offer for our Make Your Mark clubs this term.
Firstly, we are holding our annual meet ups which are a great day out for our clubs, they Read more…
The winners of the 2009 Make Your Mark Enterprising Young Brits Awards were announced today (Tuesday 24 March 2009) at a very swanky ceremony at the Institute of Directors (IoD), London.
They were each presented with a trophy and £1,000 prize money by Chancellor Alistair Darling, who made time to chat to finalists and hear their Read more…
Things have been pretty exciting at Make Your Mark Challenge Head Quarters this week, not only have we had some chocolate digestives to sustain us through the week (pretty exciting in itself if you ask me!) but I have been gathering news from around the country about what our national finalists from the Challenge 2008 Read more…
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