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£5 BLOSSOM EVENT
at Hull Truck Theatre

The primary schools and businesses involved in the third Hull Ready Celebration event at Hull Truck 14.7.2010 were Griffin and  Neil Hudgell Solicitors, Thanet and KWL, St Thomas More and HBBC (Debby Burman, Corpcom), North Ferriby and The One Point, Broadacre and the Tigers Trust, Thoresby and Pollyanna (Princes Avenue Traders), Gillshill and Kingstown Furniture, East Halton and  Brigg Garden Centre, Alderman Cogan and Hallmark Solicitors, Thorpepark and Dove House Hospice Longhill and Sign Services UK Ltd.
At the celebration event Maureen Foers OBE Chair John Cracknell Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership and Neil Hudgell Chairman of Hull Kingston Rovers presented Longhill Primary, Griffin Primary and East Halton Primary schools with their Warwick Award for Excellence in Enterprise Education and a cheque of £150 from the John Cracknell Hull Youth Enterprise Bank to help the schools further develop their enterprising idea.
Mark Jones, Head of Economic Development and Regeneration, Hull City Council said, " I just wanted to say ' thank you ' and recognise the tremendous commitment of everyone involved in the Hull Ready Programme. Today's event at the Hull Truck served as another humbling reminder as to why we are working at improving the future success of Hull and our communities. The sheer energy and enthusiasm of our young people and everyone involved in their development seems to gather pace and dynamism every year - brilliant !
A really uplifting morning , thank you and continued, well deserved, success."

At Wednesday's £5 Blossom event, Jane Walton, Head of Region for Enterprise Insight & Make Your Mark - Yorkshire and the Humber, first notices Charles' butterfly face-painting by Griffin Primary children, (see above), while Charles Cracknell, Hull City Council Employment & Youth Enterprise Manager, tells Jane what he's about to do with his orange juice! (Incidentally, the poster behind, refers to a play by John Godber, at the theatre and not to any person in this picture!)

ZIP -A-DEE-DOO-DAH!

Hull Youth Enterprise supporter Peter Shipp  Chairman and Chief Executive of East Yorkshire Motor Services Group Ltd. sponsored a ‘Big Zip’ at Hull’s KC stadium,on Fathers’ Day (20th June) in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Peter bravely agreed to be one of the first to go down the ‘Zip Wire’ even if it scared him witless. Well, as our picture proves, he did it! Congratulations, Peter!

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BUSINESS WEEK EVENTS

MONDAY 7th June -Young Entrepreneurs steel the show at launch of Humber Business Week

Two young entreprenurs (Amanda Hartley and Phil Batty  hosted the event and Phil Benson of Xing Health and Bronwyn Wilson of Crazy Critters, who has built a successful venture with her handcrafted plush toys  told about their enterprise journeys to-date All have received support from the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank
St Nicholas Primary School showed why they were recently awarded the Warwick Award for Excellence in Enterprise Education with their enterprise efforts that have seen them turn a loan of £150 as part of the £5 Blossom scheme, into £2,000.
At lunch time, members of Malet Lambert Young Chamber attended the Institute of Directors' event with renowned political journalist Andrew Neil and heard words of wisdom, which spanned the forming of the coalition government and how Hull might suffer from imminent spending cuts, to the Greek financial crisis and whether John Prescott would make a suitable addition to the Politics Show sofa.

Phil Batty & Amanda Hartley

 Bronwyn Wilson & Phil Benson

The first day clearly showed the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and kicking among the city's young people, who are so proud of Hull - indeed Oliver Wilson of Malet Lambert who was part of Fireflight and Managing Director of  Young Enterprise Company, 1,2,3, wrote about the Youth Enterprise Bank in his GCSE English Exam and how it had supported him this week
Phil Batty of Force-7 said it was imperative businesses did not overlook the importance of investing in the young stars of the future, adding: "It's fantastic that Business Week, like Global Entrepreneurship Week is backing Hull's young people but we all need to do more and we need to support things like the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank in achieving this"

TUESDAY 8th June - Hull Ready Event for Business Week at Craven Park

Hot from the editing room....NEW VIDEO OF Tuesday's HULL READY EVENT!

 

Business leaders had a treat when inspirational youngsters showcased their entrepreneurial talents as part of Business Week 2010.
The Hull Youth Enterprise and Rotherham Ready partnerships held  an event at Hull Kr's home at Craven Park, where children from five primary schools ( East Halton Primary, Highland Primary, North Ferriby, Thorpepark and Thorpe Hesley Junior School from Rotherham)  presented their enterprise stories to an audience of leading politicians as well as key education and business opinion formers from across the Humber.
At the event  delegates also heard from Claire Young, runner up in the BBC series "The Apprentice" in 2008 and an Ambassador for Enterprise UK.  After their presentations, the children set the adults a task of designing and marketing a  t-shirt to promote Business Week 2011 or Global Entreprenurship Week 2010 with a World Cup theme,  which five teams had to present to the "Mini Rottweiler Pit". (Claire Young became known on TV as "The Rottweiler"!). The winning team was the Otters and their design wiill be printed and worn in Global Entreprenurship Week in November; the team donated their prize money of £200 to be divided amongst the primary schools that took part in the day to help them develop their enterprising ideas.

 

 

Claire Young said: "Enterprise is open to everyone and anyone, and Hull and Rotherham are certainly leading the way in how they work with their primary pupils - I really enjoyed my time in Hull and am honoured to be invited back for November and to help develop a retail challenge with St Stephens Centre and Hull City Council in the near future.
"Programmes like "Junior Apprentice", "The Apprentice" and "Dragon's Den" have made business and enterprise much more accessible and exciting to young people and hopefully removed some of the common misconceptions."

Claire Young (L) speaking to delegates and (R) showing younger delegates how to Twitter news of the event

Neil Hudgell, Chairman of Hull Kingston Rovers presented Paula Harmer the Headteacher of Thorpe Hesley from Rotherham with flowers from the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership and a cheque for £200 for the school, from the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank, to help them with their enterprising ideas.
Neil Hudgell said "Yet again, the young people showed that they are all developing their enterprise skills and they are our future and they are certainly ready to take on the challenges of tomorrow."

Paula Harmer of Thorpe Hesley School encouraging her team at the event

The winning 3 teams with Claire, Neil Hudgell (R) and the young judges or "rottweilers"!

And (below) the adults present their designs

Govind Manocha (in yellow) of winning team "The Otters" delivers his pitch to "The Rottweilers"

 

CHECK OUT THE NEW HULL READY WEBSITE!

The website was designed by one of our young entrepreneurs Richard Myers, who was involved in KH Smilers from Kelvin Hall School when they reached the Young Enterprise National Finals of the Company Programme over 6 years ago.
Richard is now Managing Director of Hertz Web Solutions Hosting and is helping us to plan Global Entrepreneurship Week this November.

 

 

 

Bitwasp Interactive Ltd is a small computer games business which was founded in September 2008 by James Stubbs and Oliver Copley. We had both studied Computer Science with Games Development at The University of Hull, and graduated from the University in the summer of 2008.

By April 2009, after securing funding from the ‘Acorn fund’ and ‘Youth Enterprise Bank’, we had moved into a brand new office in the Enterprise Centre at The University of Hull. With Bitwasp Interactive we aimed to target the ever expanding “casual game’s” market, as well as offering a service to other companies wishing to harness the power of games as a marketing tool. Our first contract was done on behalf of the Youth Enterprise Bank who required an interactive game with the purpose of promoting enterprise to young children for their ‘clued up in hull’ website.

Click the button       to try out the Enterprise Game!

 

 

The Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership

is a well established public/private/community partnership set up to influence major partners in supporting Hull’s enterprising young people. It is committed to the shared vision of growing the City’s economy for the benefit of our young people and by working in partnership to create and facilitate opportunities to widen the entrepreneurial spirit of Hull.

 

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(below) What it's all about: from Youth Enterprise Manager, Charles Cracknell

(below) Youth Enterprise in a nutshell (1 nutshell = about 1½ mins!)

What is the Purpose of the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership?

Its primary purpose is to support and encourage young people aged 14-25 to become more enterprising and to contribute to the City’s target of creating 1,200 new businesses, and will assist young people to overcome economic and social barriers that deny them the opportunity of economic inclusion, progression and choice.

 

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