To mark the launch of Wildfirehub.com during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011, Wildfire are running their first competition for young people with business ideas and the prize is an Apple iPad2! Closing date is 31 January 2012. To find out more, register on www.wildfirehub.com.
Wildfire launched!
www.wildfirehub.com is now live! Wildfire was launched with keynote speaker, Deirdre Bounds, at the Create Your Future event in York on 14 November as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011. Wildfire aims to encourage and help young people across the region to become more entrepreneurial and successfully climb their chosen career ladder. Wildfire is developed [...]
PSHE Review provides opportunity for enterprise education
The review of personal, social, health and economic education was announced in the Schools White Paper, ‘The Importance of Teaching’ and confirmed the government’s belief that all pupils should benefit from high-quality PSHE education. The aim of the review as stated by Nick Gibb, Minister for Schools, is to consider the essential knowledge and awareness [...]
KC donate £60,000 to boost Youth Enterprise in Hull
LOCAL communications provider KC will donate £60,000 to Hull’s Youth Enterprise Bank over the next three years to help support young entrepreneurs to realise their business dreams. The John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank offers practical support and grants of up to £1,000 for young people who need finance to help set up or develop their [...]
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise 2012 – nominations open
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are highly prestigious awards for outstanding achievement by UK businesses in the categories of Innovation, International Trade and Sustainable Development. The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion is awarded to individuals. The deadline for entries for the 2012 Awards is 14.00 on 31 October 2011. Winners are announced on 21 April 2012. [...]
Global Entrepreneurship Week 14-20 November 2011
GEW is coming! Let us know about your GEW events and we’ll add them to our Yorkshire & Humber GEW Event listing. Find the comprehensive listing at: www.enterprisingyorkshire.co.uk/resources/gew_2011
Hull seeks Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011
Nominations are being sought for Hull’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011. The Award is aimed at recognising a young person aged 13 to 25 who has developed their own enterprise or who has demonstrated that they are very enterprising and if appropriate has gone on to contribute to the city’s agenda of supporting its [...]
UKCES Skills for Self-Employment Report
New research on the importance of skills to the self-employed, including a section on “enterprise training within the formal education system”. Download the full report from the Research Library: http://www.enterprisingyorkshire.co.uk/resources/research_library
Ofsted publishes report on “Economics, business and enterprise education”
This Ofsted report is based on data from 28 primary and 100 secondary schools as well as 33 colleges from across England, between April 07 and March 10. It covers both formally assessed economics and business courses and whole-school enterprise education. One of the Recommendations is that the Department for Education should “as part of [...]
