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…
Recently I visited the fantastic facilities at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light Football Foundation.
Sunderland FC are the newest member of the Premier League Enterprise Academy Scheme, and they complete the list of leading North East football clubs involved, along with Newcastle United and Middlesbrough FC. Funding has been secured to run Enterprise Academy projects for young people Read more…
Young entrepreneurs from Waldegrave School in Twickenham, London, and Plymouth College were announced yesterday as winners of the keenly-contested and toughly fought 2009 Make Your Mark Challenge.
The team of five students from Waldegrave topped the 14-16 category with their ‘keepakup’ idea. The team took nearby Twickenham Rugby Stadium as their inspiration for their idea: selling Read more…
Well, it’s finally arrived, the Make Your Mark Challenge UK final. I’m social reporting for the day, so I get to dive in and out of both activity rooms, check up on Enterprise UK buddies and eat free pastries. We’ve had an introductory talk and now I am in the activity room with the 14-16 Read more…
Sam McLoughlin, Enterprise Academy Co-ordinator at Newcastle United FC, had a lot to smile about on Monday when his team of young entrepreneurs from King Edward VI School in Morpeth scooped the “Best Presentation” prize at the Premier League Enterprise Challenge Final at Manchester City Football Ground!
The innovative approach to the presentation which saw the Read more…
Manchester City stadium, still gleaming from it’s glorious win over Chelsea on Sunday, now has something else to smile about.
Six teams from various Premier League Enterprise Clubs have just competed for the title of most enterprising club in Britain.
The challenge was to increase sales at Category C games. Category C games sound a bit like Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Yesterday high up on the 29th floor of Millbank Tower looking over London, we celebrated the huge contribution made around the country to making Britain enterprising.
The Enterprising Britain Awards Ceremony attended by representatives from the 12 regional finalists and chaired by Lord Davies, David Frost and Peter Jones was a great success.
Enterprising Britain is a nationwide Read more…
A seaside town where 5,000 new businesses have been inspired since 1982, and 206 jobs created in the last two years*, was named the enterprise capital of Britain yesterday at the national finals of the Enterprising Britain competition run by Enterprise UK and the department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
Lowestoft in the East of England Read more…
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