There were some confused faces around the Nissan Manufacturing Plant yesterday as their site was invaded by a Polar Bear! Lucky for them this one was harmless and in fact wanted nothing more than to tell them all about Global Warming and protecting the environment.
Percy the Polar Bear is the main character in a series Read more…
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 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!
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.
Sky satellite channel DMV Digital in Manchester ran an item on Global Enterpreneurship Week and invited me in my role as Ambassador Manager and Shazan Qureshi (Ambassador) to the studio. I was able to mention all the wonderful events that take place in Schools, Universities and organisations during this week. I was pleased to be Read more…
It is a common misconception that you need to have a great, unique idea before you start your business journey. In actual fact, you don’t.
Allow me to use the analogy of a doctor to illustrate. A doctor will go to medical school for perhaps 6 years or more. The first years of study will entail learning all about medicine, the Read more…
The North East’s Global Entrepreneurship Week festivities culminated in the annual Women into the Network, North East Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.
The 2009 WIN Awards, sponsored by Business Link, honoured enterprising women from all around the region on Friday night at the Hilton Hotel. Hosted by TV’s Wendy Gibson, over 400 of the region’s Read more…
19th November was the day that South Yorkshire buzzed with the sound of Global Entrepreneurship Week. The day started in Sheffield with the Take Control Today event at Hillsborough College, then went on to the Social Enterprise Showcase at Doncaster Dome which included a lively question time where the audience were inspired and informed by Read more…
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
gof fairtrade products and inspirational and informative books on related topics.
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
. The outcomes helped with business formation, business growth and how to write an essay on managing HR!
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…
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 Read more…
From humble beginnings, Global Entrepreneurship Week has come a long way in a short time. What started as a small bunch of people has grown into a truly global movement, with 88 countries, 17 of which have gained support from their Presidents, Prime Ministers, Princes and Princesses.
This year, the United Nations HQ in Geneva joined Read more…
Millfields Trust, based in Plymouth have been announced as winners of the national Social Enterprise Day photography competition. This also marks the second year in a row a Devon business has won the national award.
The winning picture, shot by Peter Dukes was taken at the ‘graduation’ ceremony Widening Horizons project funded by Millfields that saw Read more…
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