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Feature: Enterprising Futures roundtable: Does entrepreneurship feature in careers advice? October 2009

Entrepreneurship is an underground movement, like rock ‘n’ roll, but education hasn’t caught up with this yet, our panel suggested in the second of our three videos on ‘Enterprising Futures’.

Feature: Enterprising Futures roundtable: How is the economic climate affecting young people? October 2009

The recession has hit an ‘entitlement generation’ – young people who expected to walk straight into a great job and with no experience of previous recessions – according to panellists in the first of our three videos on ‘Enterprising Futures’.

Feature: Guest Interview: Wayne Hemingway, August 2009

Creative entrepreneur Wayne Hemingway, with his wife Gerardine, turned a business selling clothes in a London market into the international fashion label Red or Dead. Wayne is a vocal campaigner for a range of passions, including design, entrepreneurship, social justice and the environment. He was awarded an MBE in 2006 and is a Professor in the Built Environment Department at Northumbria University.

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Feature: What makes an entrepreneur?

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News Story: Ideas don’t have to break the bank! 20,000 young people loaned £10 and challenged to make a profit AND a difference in a month

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School students this morning raided a giant piggybank outside the Bank of England building…but only took £10 each.

The event was one of several across the UK to launch Make Your Mark with a Tenner, a national enterprise competition which is loaning 20,000 young people £10 each, challenging them to make as much profit and social impact as they can in just one month.  A loan from the Tenner bank will give them the chance to make a profit far greater than today’s interest rates.

Date Published: 
02/02/2009

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News Story: Diary note…Diary note…ONE MONTH TO GO!

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Business leaders, global corporations, high profile entrepreneurs, celebrities and politicians have come forward to support Global Entrepreneurship Week (November 17-23 2008) and show confidence in the entrepreneurs and small businesses of the future.

Date Published: 
23/10/2008

Inspiring Story: We Are A Nation Of Entrepreneurs

"I really think our society has been entrepreneurial throughout history. In the 18th and 19th centuries UK businesses conquered the world. We are not a nation of shop keepers, we are nation of entrepreneurs."

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