Tees Valley

Business Breakfast at Teesside Tuesday 15 November 2011 08:00 - 10:00 Grosvenor G'Casino 4 Chandlers Wharf Bridge Road Stockton-on-Tees TS18 3BA £10.00 per person

An opportunity for aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs to meet with experienced members of the Entrepreneurs' Forum for an informal discussion about their ideas, challenges and businesses.

Hosted by Yorkshire Bank in their Financial Solutions Centre Newport House Thornaby Place Stockton on Tees

This opportunity builds on the principle that the best advice for business comes from other experienced business people. And as Tim Smit said at the Forum's conference on November 3rd - 'it important to make time to meet the people you didn't know you needed to meet.'

DigitalCity Business are aiming to Connect, Support and Promote the very best Creative & Digital businesses in Stockton, within Global Enterprise Week.

Lisa Smith from fruit to suit is delivering two Enterprise Programs to 64 Year 7 & 8 pupils at The King's Academy in Middlesborough:

Tuck Shop Challenge o Teams of children take part in a half-day enterprise challenge to create a company to run a healthy tuck shop in their own school. The winning company is the one with the best business plan and company profile.

Blog It

All students will be invited to blog about entrepreneurship and what it means to them. All computer rooms will be opened up for the week during break and lunchtimes for students to talk to each other, through the Blog, about current business issues and what it takes to be an entrepreneur.

Students are being asked to come up with an innovative business idea for the local area. The competition will last all week and entries will be judged by the Local Economic Regeneration Unit.

The whole of the Year 7 students over the two afternoons will be involved in the Aeroplane Business Challenge This will will be run by Year 11 students. The event consists of there being 5 days where a different type of plane is required depending on conditions and venue fo flight. the students have to then make a plane and bring it to the judges to see if it meets the critria set by the students.

Stockton students have been working on this task for the past few months.

This week each school will submit 1 final team (up to 8 students) that will go onto the final Apprentice Challenge.

Trading has started among Stockton families who are hoping to clinch the title of this year’s “Most Enterprising Family” in the Nifty Fifty Family Enterprise Challenge.

The families have successfully secured £50 from a special enterprise bank organised by Stockton Council as a contribution towards the start-up costs. They have been set the challenge of coming up with an “enterprising idea” and using it to make as much profit leading into Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011.

Abbey Hill school has developed a mobile shop Enterprise that will allow the students at the school to sell their products at local community events, market stalls and other locations. On 14th November local entrepreneurs and teachers will be working with 400 students to develop a brand for the shop and to generate ideas for products to sell on the shop.

Friday 18th November – Billingham Tees Achieve Billingham Community Centre, The Causeway, Billingham TS23 2DA

How can the internet benefit your business? Social Enterprise Five Lamps is offering the following three workshops to help people understand how technology can benefit business:

Thursday 17th November – Five Lamps 32 Dovecot Street, Stockton Town Centre, TS18 1LN 09:30 – 11:30 Earning from home 13:30 – 15:30 Google Sites & More

How can the internet benefit your business? Social Enterprise Five Lamps is offering the following three workshops to help people understand how technology can benefit business:

Wednesday 16th November – Grangefield School Computer Learning Centre, Oxbridge Ave

How can the internet benefit your business? Social Enterprise Five Lamps is offering the following three workshops to help people understand how technology can benefit business:

Tuesday 15th November– South Thornaby Community Resource Centre, Havilland Road Thornaby on Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland TS17 9JG How can the internet benefit your business? Social Enterprise Five Lamps is offering the following three workshops to help people understand how technology can benefit business:

Monday 14th November – Five Lamps Eldon Street Thornaby on Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland TS17 7DJ

How can the internet benefit your business? Social Enterprise Five Lamps is offering the following three workshops to help people understand how technology can benefit business:

Thursday 16 November – 11.30 – 1pm (Thornaby Library) & 4.30 – 6pm (Stockton Central Library