Employees, Employers

Inspiring Story: Serving up coffee that won’t break the bank

As co-founders of Co-Go Coffee to Go, Simon McCann and Nicolas Holzherr have come up with a new way for people on the go to buy high quality, fairly priced coffee.

Feature: Enterprising Futures roundtable: Can we encourage more entrepreneurship? October 2009

Brits need to stop castigating failure and start giving things a go if we are to create a culture of entrepreneurship in the UK, our panel suggest in the last of our three ‘Enterprising Futures’ videos.

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’.

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Inspiring Story: Meet the Bulldog!

Unable to find any natural male skincare products in the shops, Simon Duffy decided to launch his own brand – Bulldog Natural Grooming.

Inspiring Story: Childhood Friends Share A Happy Kitchen

With a shared passion for organic, seasonal and local food, childhood friends Lisa Stockton and Ellie Pennington teamed up to launch social enterprise Happy Kitchen.

Inspiring Story: He's electric!

Daniel Sheridan came up with the idea for PlayMade Energy while completing a degree in consumer product design.

Inspiring Story: Claire Young's Elegant Ideas

After being named runner-up on The Apprentice in 2008, 30 year old Claire Young went on to launch luxury wedding venues company Elegant Venues.

Inspiring Story: Gone Fishing

After training as an actor, Andrew Fishwick decided to focus on producing innovative work for the theatre. In 2006 he founded independent production company The Fish Partnership.

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