From the 14th to the 18th of November 2011, events will be happening all over the UK to celebrate and promote entrepreneurship. It’s a fantastic way to connect people, share ideas and bring out the next generation of business owners – and Enabling Enterprise is getting seriously stuck in!
We have six events taking place [...]
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Mike was out meeting students in Birmingham this week. It was an early start at Brookvale Primary in Erdington for the launch of our Mange Tout Module with Year 6. Students began their day by thinking about what it means to stand out of the crowd before beginning their quest to create a popular recipe [...]
Mike got a chance to meet Year 5 at St Mary’s Catholic Primary School today. Following the Trash to Treasure module of our Introductory Programme, Year 5 are half way through their quest to create a new, environmentally friendly toy. Today’s lesson was all about branding with each team designing a logo for Trash to Treasure and presenting this [...]
The Enabling Enterprise team travelled to Haggerston School on Tuesday the 27th of September as the entire Year 8 group embarked upon an epic maths challenge. The whole year group was off timetable for the day and there was a buzz in the air as students filed into their classrooms, ready to take [...]
A quiet reading area, a free play space and a giant canvas for an artistic creation… these are just some of the ideas given by students at Topcliffe Primary School in Birmingham for how their school could make use of a full scale canal boat. The Year 6 class was joined by the Enabling [...]
We kicked off the new school year with a fantastic team-building session at Westminster City School, where the newly inducted Year 12s were thrown into the Advanced Programme. By trading materials with each other, the teams were competing to make the most effective (and most attractive!) bridge – using only newspaper, glue, scissors and the [...]
We have launched our new intern scheme and are currently looking for talented, enthusiastic people to join the team. We have a selection of different internships offering some excellent opportunities to develop a range of skills and to get to know more about the world of social enterprise. We will be offering three internship cycles [...]
On the 25th August we visited the Platform in Islington to meet a group of exceptional young people attending the Cr8tive Potential workshop.
The theme of the session was to explore and develop two vital enterprising skills: Negotiation and Sales. Following some fun starter games, the negation simulation was introduced: Team Alpha, a major building contractor [...]
Bridging the gap at Freshfields
On the 12th of June, Abbotsfeld, Burbage and St. Monica’s primary schools joined the Enabling Enterprise team to take part in a day which focused on building teamwork skills. The event was hosted at Freshfields and gave students the chance to see inside a top law firm. The students were introduced [...]
On the afternoon of the 31st of May – the first official day of the summer half term, ten young people from PHASCA, a Haringey Youth Group, attended a presentation day at Societe Generale. The overarching aim of the day was to generate a business idea which participants would then be able to develop.
The [...]
