Today on our Blog

It’s been an action packed day here in West Yorkshire as Raheela and I went on a whistle stop tour visiting the schools in Bradford who are taking part in Make Your Mark with a Tenner. Starting off at Laisterdyke BEC we met a year 7 class who were buzzing with excitement and eager to take [...]

Over 30 delegates attend the Yorkshire and Humber launch of the Enterprising Britain 2010 competition held at the World Trade Centre in Hull. Delegates represented regional and local organisations, businesses and education establishments. Jane Walton Head of Enterprise UK in the region welcomed delegates and provided delegates with wishes of support from the regional minister [...]

My Tenner travelling yesterday took me to the ex-mining town of Bolsover in Derbyshire. I was fortunate enough to meet with students from The Bolsover School and their Enterprise Coordinator, John Whittaker. It was great to see young students  so actively involved in Tenner and responding well to the challenge – like all successful business people [...]

The Civic Offices at Cannock Chase was the venue for the latest West Midlands Enterprising Places Network.  It followed the theme of the first EPN during December – Think Enterprise – to look at the problems young people face and how to address them best, this time looking at the young people in the Cannock Chase [...]

I enjoy working at Enterprise UK towers. Really, I do. Between power ballads, bake-outs, and lip-dubs, I can’t imagine a more fraternal, unpredictable and, above all, enterprising place to work. But – enjoy it as we do, we all need to get out of the office from time to time, and I believe that this is particularly true of us [...]

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 [...]

I had a Tenner-tastic afternoon at The Chase School in Malvern.  This group of young people are fairly new to Make Your Mark, but have opted to take part in Make Your Mark activity as part of their Young Chamber. Part of the group were regionally shortlisted in the West Midlands Make Your Mark Challenge final and [...]

I have spent most of today visiting some lovely tenner schools in Liverpool and Warrington with the lovely Carys. In one of the schools I came across one of the biggest motivating stories I have heard in my 4 years at EUK so thought I would share the love on a Friday afternoon. The young people [...]

Arriving at Airedale High School in Castleford this morning at 9am I was immediately faced with the buzz of Make Your Mark with a tenner activity where over 80 pupils are taking part. Posters created by the pupils advertising the various enterprises were displayed in the reception grabbing the attention of visitors. Accompanied by Chris [...]

Singer, Songwriter, Entrepreneur… Beverley Knight has many strings to her bow – not only is she one of the UK’s top female artists but she also has her own successful make-up range. She obviously has entrepreneurial flair in buckets and has offered her advice to students taking part in the Make Your Mark with a Tenner competition. Here [...]

In 2008 we (Enterprise UK – or Make Your Mark as we were known back then) published ‘The Future Face Of Enterprise’, a collection of viewpoints. We asked over 50 entrepreneurs, business people, industry experts, social commentators, academics what they thought would shape the future face of enterprise in the UK. Two years later and we’re [...]

Today, the Village Hotel in Warrington saw almost 40 over 50 entrepreneurs get together to discuss what makes a place enterprising as well as the issues of setting up a business in the wake of retirement or redundancy. One of the front runners to what makes an enterprising place was a high street run by [...]

A flourishing entrepreneurial boom in France is the subject of an article in today’s Financial Times. Despite the rigours of the recession, France saw more than 500,000 businesses created last year, and the growth rate is set to continue this year. Much of this is being attributed to a French government scheme, launched in January 2009, [...]

Charley Mellowship is one of our most enthusiastic supporters of all things Make Your Mark. She’s written an article for the SSAT magazine which has kindly shared with us first… This year at Heath Park Business and Enterprise College over 500 students are taking part in Make Your Mark with a Tenner, a national competition which [...]

‘IF WE CAN, YOU CAN’ Challenge launches for 2010   Today marks the launch of the third ‘If we can, you can’ Challenge, a region-wide competition set to re-ignite and celebrate North East England’s entrepreneurial spirit. The  Challenge calls upon any individual who is thinking of starting a business, running their own business or looking to grow their [...]

Just had a great phone call from one of the students at Glyncoed Comprehensive School in South Wales. For their Tenner Month, the students are busy running Fairtrade-themed events including a Fairtrade tuckshop, raffle and, best of all – a banana-eating contest! They’ll also be holding Fairtrade assemblies in their school to raise awareness of the importance [...]

The lovely folks at Adnams Brewery have come on board to help potential entrepreneurs spark their ideas! As part of a series of free events run by Enterprise UK, The King’s Head in Woodbridge and The Butt and Oyster at Pin Mill are both hosting events, aimed at people who want to start their own business [...]

The Enterprise Manifesto is hotting up – with a host of ideas submitted to help shape promote and support entrepreneurship in the UK. This first week has seen over 50 ideas added, which already show a really diverse range of views on what people think can be done to support entrepreneurs. There are also some [...]

Over 500 delegates attended 2 events being run simultaneously in York yesterday aimed at inspiring exisiting and budding entrepreneurs in the creative and cutlrual sector. York St John University triumphed with key note speaker Wayne Hemingway who recounted his enterprise journey from market stall to B&Q’s best selling shed via the fashion label Red or [...]

None other than chart-topping artist Tinchy Strider has been in the news this week encouraging young people to manage their money, and advising them to always put some away for a rainy day. Timely advice – this month up and down the country young people have been entrusted with £10 and asked to make as much [...]