Northwest Ambassador Chris Arnold has launched a worldwide competition which will see participants compete and develop skills in enterprise and social responsibility. The winners will receive a once in a lifetime prize to travel the world for a year meeting entrepreneurs and world leaders.
‘Your Big Year’ is an official ‘Global Entrepreneurship Week’ event that provides Read more…
The Virgin Media Pioneers Manchester Meet up accommodated some very cool people including Enterprise UK representatives and an exclusive network of ‘Virgin Media Pioneer’ entrepreneurs. The event was held at the very atmospheric Corner House Lounge and proved to be a relaxed way for the entrepreneurs to interact and inspire each other.
Not only did they Read more…
The Newcastle United Foundation’s Enterprise Academy celebrated its first birthday this week with a special anniversary event at St. James’ Park. Under the fantastic management of Sam McLoughlin, the Enterprise Academy has proved to be a resounding success in its first year with students from 20 schools across Newcastle, Northumberland, Gateshead and North Tyneside reaping the Read more…
Stuart Varrall of Fluid Pixel has won the coveted DediPower Digital Award 2010. The trophy was presented by Rt Hon Stephen Timms, MP, Minister for Digital Britain, at a special ceremony in London, last week.
Fluid Pixel, a business offering innovative applications, games and interfaces for mobile phones, the web and desktops won the first prize Read more…
Last week I managed to bag myself a ticket to the media140 Third Sector event held at We Are Social in London. The event focused on how Social Media is and can be used in third sector organisations with talk and debate from leading advocates in the industry. Safe to say being a bit of 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…
Inspired by Global Entrepreneurship Week a group of UK entrepreneurs have decided to sell the world’s first 24 Hour Start Up on ebay!
X Factor? Strictly? The finals to these two shows may be rapidly approaching, but here at Enterprise UK we prefer our competitions to have a more entrepreneurial slant.
That’s why we’re looking forward to the grand final of The Pitch, which will represent the culmination of a nationwide search for the UK’s most creative and innovative Read more…
Gary’s Social Media Count is a real time visualisation of social media’s ever-bubbling growth. Spend a few seconds staring at these flickering stats and you’ll realise why few entrepreneurs can afford to ignore its potential.
Mashable have just posted a nice guide to 10 of the Best Social Media Tools for Entrepreneurs (hat tip to @neillyneil) Read more…
Everything that we do as a campaign has a location associated with it. Events happen somewhere, ambassadors are based somewhere, schools are somewhere. With the march of technology comes geo-tagging, so even the photos we take when we’re social reporting can be tagged with a precise location.
Over the next few months we’ll be testing the Read more…
Nominations for the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion 2010 have now opened. Lord Mandelson suggests that ‘recipients of The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion (QAEP) are outstanding individuals who are inspiring tomorrow’s entrepreneurs and giving them the skills and attitudes they need to succeed’ and that ‘they hold the key to unlocking Britain’s entrepreneurial talents 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…
Yesterday I was lucky enough to be in lovely sunny Paignton for the Global Entrepreneurship Week South West Meetup, part of a crack team of Make Your Mark-ers consisting of Chris, Sarah, Lauren, Rachel and Kate!
I delivered a couple of short workshops on digital tools that could help event organisers and as I sang the Read more…
Here at Make Your Mark towers, we clearly love a bit of digital wizardry and no one comes across as more wizard then Carl Smith.
As a researcher and developer at London Met University and my mate, he champions mobile and virtual learning and believes that it can be as adaptable and fluid as we are. Read more…
When Howies got bought out by Timberland I wondered if it would retain it’s ability to be entrepreneurial. Happily so far it doesn’t seem to have dented their enthusiasm for innovation and the latest to be launched is Teepay – a site where designers upload their t-shirt designs and, if they receive 30 orders, their Read more…
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