Arriving at Airedale High School in Castleford this morning at 9am I was immediately faced with the buzz of Make Your Mark with a tenner activity where over 80 pupils are taking part. Posters created by the pupils advertising the various enterprises were displayed in the reception grabbing the attention of visitors.
Over 500 delegates attended 2 events being run simultaneously in York yesterday aimed at inspiring exisiting and budding entrepreneurs in the creative and cutlrual sector. York St John University triumphed with key note speaker Wayne Hemingway who recounted his enterprise journey from market stall to B&Q’s best selling shed via the fashion label Red or Dead. He urged delegates to leave the world a better place than they found it and suggested that the role of the creative mind is to make lives better. Creative entrepreneurs shared their knowledge of a wide range of topics including intellectual property and networking. Meanwhile at The Hospitium students were accessing support from EUK, Business Link and others and being learning about creative businesses ranging from magic to graphic design. I was privileged to be asked to round the day off by congratulating all the organisers and partcipants and suggesting that York should be an entrant to the Enterprising Britain competition this year.
This afternoon Enterprise UK Yorkshire & Humber held an Enterprising Places Network Event as part of the North Yorkshire Enterprise Cafe organised by NYBEP. Hosted in the rural setting of Sandburn Hall in Flaxton on the outskirts of York.
With threats of snow and bad weather conditions we were very impressed with such a great turn out of attendees. In the grand but foggy surroundings, we were seated on round tables and treated to a delicious warm buffet lunch.
The event brought together a wide range of enterprising case studies with an educational theme hearing from…
The Yorkshire and Humber team had a great time attending Venturefest in York (a one day expo bringing together science, technology and knowledge entrepreneurs) this week as part of the Enterprise Inspirations exhibition.
Schools were very keen to find out about Make Your Mark with a Tenner and we look forward to receiving more of their registrations – Selby High School registered from the event!
We were also very pleased to see King James’s School from Knaresborough who were entering their idea from taking part in the Make Your Mark Challenge last year into a competition at the event. The team were inspired by the Make Your Mark Challenge – Use local inspiration to create a cool creation and have continued to turn their idea into reality…….
Well, we are all aware of the havoc that has been caused by the snow and ice over the last couple of weeks but here in Yorkshire we thought it was the perfect opportunity to look to the positive – yes there is one… home working!
Many of our ambassadors are successful home workers. Nadine Hill from The Dream PA and Dr Mah from Saaf Pure Skin Care have turned their ideas into reality without leaving their front door.
Crescent Arts in Scarborough leads the way in creative collaboration and partnership through their project ‘Shop Lift’. Working with young and talented artists, designers and performers based in Scarborough to take the visual and performing arts to the high street, enlivening vacant shops and offices around the town centre.
Shop Lift was launched in June 2009 with The {Apothecary’s Unbelievable} Menagerie – an exciting collaboration with Yorkshire Coast College, displaying costume design by BA (Hons) Costume students and modelled by Performing Arts students. Live mannequins in exquisite hand-crafted costumes performed in Scarborough’s Salisbury Arcade, turning window-dressing into a revelatory artform.
That's one big generator!
A NEW chapter is set to unfold in Sunderland’s maritime history as the first of a new generation of wave-powered energy generators sets sail.
The first tidal generator to be manufactured at the site of the city’s former shipbuilding yards is now complete and will be shipped to Humberside where it will be put into action in a series of trials.
The million-pound Neptune Proteus tidal stream demonstrator has been built on Wearside by family- run Wear Dock and Engineering.
New College in Pontefract and Wisewood School in Sheffield!
New College students excelled in the 16 – 19 category with PowerShoe, a kinetic energy harnessing device that utilises the wasted energy that is created everyday in the sole of our shoes.
Wisewood School took the regional title for the 14 – 16 category with H2 Power, a water turbine that is attached to a drainpipe so that when it rains, or when waste water runs through the drainpipe, it generates electricity that charges a portable battery.
Now, with just one day to go until our regional final of the Make Your Mark Challenge we really are on the edge of our seats and can’t wait to see our teams present their ideas.
Whilst we contain our excitement (just) we would like to thank all of our teams for the high standard of entries from schools and colleges across the Yorkshire and Humber region.
At times we really do wish that we could bottle the enthusiasm of our young people so that we could share all of their entrepreneurial spirit. But, we know we can’t, so instead take a look at our footage from the launch day. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
The voice has only just recovered from my speednetworking session at the yorkshire business show at doncaster racecourse yesterday. 30 people in an hour and only 2 I already knew. businesses range from IT solutions to dog chocolates for christmas. met some potential ambassadors and business supporters.
Forward Ladies celebrate GEW 09
Members of Forward Ladies held a Christmas Fayre on Saturday as part of GEW 09 at the Metropole Hotel Leeds
Students and the public got a chance to debate and discuss a range of global and ethical issues at the Leeds Summat on Saturday as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Visitors were also able to purchase a range
Leeds Summat 09
gof fairtrade products and inspirational and informative books on related topics.
Leeds Summat 09
The newly formed Young Chamber of Barnsley College met with members of the Junior Chamber to develop their creative skills to come up with new ideas with the help of creative oates
JCI Barnsley and Barnsley College Young Chamber GEW meet-up
. The outcomes helped with business formation, business growth and how to write an essay on managing HR!
For me Global Entrepreneurship Week began and finished with teams of enterprising students, from the Make Your Mark Challenge launch in North Yorkshire through to Student Speaks in Wakefield.
Student Speaks was an opportunity for youngsters from secondary schools across the Wakefield district to be involved in GEW, discuss the theme ‘skills, enterprise and work’ and in particular have their say on what’s important to them. It was supported by Wakefield Together Partnership but planned by a group of students from Freeston Business and Enterprise College.
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