Nationally we’re all of a quiver about the general election, the closest fought battle for many a year and like a good slap-stick comedy we’re all watching just to see who walks over the open man-hole next, or which guy ducks when the guy with the ladder over his shoulder spins round. We’re not nearly Read more…
This weekend I went back to where I grew up to join the family business in celebrating their latest achievement. My parents and brother run a garden centre and this weekend they opened their new retail shop, an impressive 1200 square metres of barn-style building complete with underfloor heating and impressive ranges of giftware, clothing and garden furniture.
My Dad took Read more…
Serena, 9 and Daisy 10, pioneers of the Kids Cooking Club
Serena (aged 9), wanted to find a way to raise money to help people like her who had been affected by terminal cancer in the family. Her first idea was to write a cookery book and so she turned to her aunt Tessa, who is Read more…
New research from the Careers Advice Service sheds some light on the career aspirations of kids.
Apparently, girls want to be teachers when they grow up and boys want to be footballers - this will come as a surprise to no-one who has had to spend a rainy, mud-soaked afternoon kicking a half-deflated football around with an over-excited Read more…
At Make Your Mark Towers, we like to think of ourselves as collection of youthful, sprightly folk. Accordingly - consistent with a tradition that has been passed down from one generation of young people to another – we can occasionally be heard grumbling about the parents. Personality defects? We blame the parents; sloppy habits? We blame the parents.
Enough.
Our ongoing Parents campaign should put to rest such ungrateful, ill-founded grumbles.
The Read more…
Everyone is talking about the very emotive words of wisdom from the parents of Make Your Mark Ambassadors. So for one of those my parents used to say moments
“A negative can nearly always be turned into a positive and if mistakes are made occasionally the golden rule is to learn from them and move on.”
For Read more…
We all know our TV entrepreneurs, so it has been great looking a lot closer to home, where we have been speaking to super parents of the fabulous Make Your Mark Ambassadors. There are lots of juicy insights and the nice bits entrepreneurs wouldn’t tell you about themselves(First ventures in the playground and the lows Read more…
With so many young people collecting results for exams almost half of young people turn to their parents first for advice and guidance on career routes and educational next step.
Directgov revealed some very interesting research last week about parents worrying about giving their children the right advice. With more than one in four parents not being fully Read more…
Well amongst other very exciting topics I have hand picked one especially for YOU!!!!
How important are your parents in supporting your entrepreneurial journey?
Share your answers in the Make Your Mark Forum.
It’s Friday and the weather is getting much cooler outside, but enough about the that…….
I came across this article suggesting that modern parents are doing a better job than in previous generations. I would just like to say that we all had very different backgrounds growing up but generally the message was the same, you had Read more…
This week the topic of discussion at Make Your Mark has been the family. On wednesday Make Your Mark Ambassador Fleur Emery who set up successful organic porridge business Team Grasshopperwith her sister Abi came down to Make Your Mark HQ to give us the low down on working with the family in our lunch time Read more…
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