Make Your Mark Blog - GEW Category

is an exciting new book series created by Make Your Mark Challenge regional finalists from Highcliffe School. The 6th form students from Dorset came third in their South West Regional Final and instead of being disapointed they hadn’t won they were encouraged that they had an exciting business idea and have spent the past few months Read more... 0

I was invited to the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Summit in Toronto recently and wanted to post a note about my experience. The aim of the two-day Summit was to impact the G20 by working on a declaration representing the voice of 20 countries to maximize the economic potential of young entrepreneurs in their respective Read more... 0

STARTENT is a new project which will contribute to developing the entrepreneurial culture of young people, and to improving entrepreneurship education in Europe. The project is co-funded by the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry under the call “Entrepreneurial culture of young people and entrepreneurship education”. With a comprehensive set of actions, the STARTENT project address Read more... 0

One of our ambassadors is planning a huge Global Entrepreneurship Week Event to inspire women from across the region. Melanie has been planning the vent for sometime and want this to be one of the key events of Global Entrepreneurship Week in the Northwest. Please see below some more information form Melanie about the event its Read more... 0

  Companies across the Northwest are benefiting from London 2012, with at least 204 Northwest businesses having now won 275 Games-related contracts. There are a number of events taking place across the region over the couple of months giving information about how Northwest Businesses can benefit from the games and get involved. These include;   Everyone’s 2012 – The Northwest Read more... 0

With the pace of change across all sectors of the digital and creative industries, skills gaps can often emerge that businesses can find hard to bridge without support. We work in partnership with digital and creative employers in the North West to support paid training placements for those new to the industry, and for experienced Read more... 0

Northwest Region Awards EN Magazine North West Entrepreneur Awards 2010 - EN Magazine’s North West Entrepreneur of the Year Awards scheme, now in its ninth year, exists to honour the achievements of the region’s most tenacious and successful entrepreneurs – and to provide encouragement and a standard against which they can measure themselves to those who Read more... 0

It’s officially open! After months of planning, preparation and lots of painting, I’m thrilled to see my Reflecting Light Exhibition at Shine open to the public after the launch evening on Thursday 17th June. The evening got formally underway with speeches – an introduction and welcome to Shine by CEO Dawn O’Keefe, an official opening by Read more... 0

Girls Out Loud is a UK based social enterprise set up in 2009 by serial entrepreneur and inspirational speaker/coach Jane Kenyon and business woman, Ambassador for enterprise and media personality Claire Young – with the aim to raise the aspirations of young girls between the ages of 13-18.  Girls Out Loud facilitates intervention programmes in Read more... 1

Give a Young Person (and your creative team) a Break! Apprenticeships have risen in reputation and popularity exponentially over recent years. However within the thriving creative industries sector – creative agencies as well as marketing departments – there is currently a dearth of opportunity for these bright and ambitious individuals. A unique partnership between the National Apprenticeship Service Read more... 0

Global Entrepreneurship Week Malaysia got its campaign up and running with a bang (or a gong – see below) in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taking place in the KL Tower – the world’s fifth tallest telecommunication tower – GEW’s fantastic Malaysian hosts Warisan Global brought together the entrepreneurial community’s great and good for a typically high-octane event. A crowd of Read more... 0

Nigeria has joined the growing roster of countries to have officially gotten their Global Entrepreneurship Week campaigns off the mark. On a lively opening night in Lagos, a mix of policy makers, financial institutions, academics and 254 Nigerian SMEs were present to witness the launch and discuss the event’s theme, ‘Building credible SMEs in tough Read more... 0

This week saw the small island nation of Mauritius getting its Global Entrepreneurship Week preparations off to a big start with the Entrepreneurial Training Workshop. The programme has been organised by the Week’s organisers on the island, Empretec Mauritius. This week’s ETW is one of a series of six Workshops that Empretec is organising in the build Read more... 0

This was the moment that students from Newcastle College who took part in Enterprise UK’s Make your Mark with a Tenner competition unwrapped their ‘human’ prize for being shortlisted and raising the most amount of money in the North East. Out of the 38 schools and colleges that took part in the competition in the North East, Read more... 0

Entrepreneurship needs to be firmly at the heart of our future economy and people with business ideas need the inspiration to take them a step further. As such it is always interesting to see decent books aiming to help and inspire entrepreneurs. Two books I’ve seen recently are the perfect addition to anyone’s catalogue of Read more... 0

Are you interested in becoming a mentor or do you need a mentor yoursef? Business Mentoring is a free programme offering a range of support for leaders and senior managers of small businesses that have been trading for a minimum of a year. There are opportunites of one to one or group mentoring avaiable. For more detials go Read more... 0

A CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE SECOND SENW MENTORING PROGRAMME  Social Enterprise North West is pleased to announce that its second Mentoring Programme for social enterprises and enterprising third sector organisations will start in July 2010 and we are now inviting applications for the programme.  Please see the attached leaflet on the programme.  This fully-funded programme is Read more... 0

Are you aged 16-25? Resident in Liverpool? Interested in mentoring another young person, to help them achieve their career ambitions?   We are offering 9 young people, aged 16-25 the opportunity to learn key mentoring and coaching skills, by participating in the Mentor Me Mentor You training programme. During the process you will be asked to mentor another young person. You will develop your talents Read more... 0

Last week 2 of our Northwest Ambassador attended schools in Liverpool within the Stepclver Project to share their own enterprise stories. Daisy Dutton a freelance artist and writer talked to students at St George of England High School. Daisy who has recently launched a children’s book called Get Ahead Fred, talked to the students about how Read more... 0

Northwest Ambassador Chris Arnold has launched a worldwide competition which will see participants compete and develop skills in enterprise and social responsibility. The winners will receive a once in a lifetime prize to travel the world for a year meeting entrepreneurs and world leaders.  ‘Your Big Year’ is an official ‘Global Entrepreneurship Week’ event that provides Read more... 0