Calling all young achievers (and we know there are a lot of you doing Enabling Enterprise programmes!)… The Young Achievers Trust is pleased to announce that the 2011 Young Achievers Awards are now open for nominations! Through these Awards, the Young Achievers Trust celebrates and supports the outstanding contribution of young people working to make [...]

The Enabling Enterprise team travelled to Haggerston School on Tuesday the 27th of September as the entire Year 8 group embarked upon an epic maths challenge. The whole year group was off timetable for the day and there was a buzz in the air as students filed into their classrooms, ready to take on the [...]

A quiet reading area, a free play space and a giant canvas for an artistic creation… these are just some of the ideas given by students at Topcliffe Primary School in Birmingham for how their school could make use of a full scale canal boat. The Year 6 class was joined by the Enabling Enterprise [...]

We have launched our new intern scheme and are currently looking for talented, enthusiastic people to join the team. We have a selection of different internships offering some excellent opportunities to develop a range of skills and to get to know more about the world of social enterprise. We will be offering three internship cycles [...]

On the 25th August we visited the Platform in Islington to meet a group of exceptional young people attending the Cr8tive Potential workshop. The theme of the session was to explore and develop two vital enterprising skills: Negotiation and Sales. Following some fun starter games, the negation simulation was introduced: Team Alpha, a major building [...]

Bridging the gap at Freshfields On the 12th of June, Abbotsfeld, Burbage and St. Monica’s primary schools joined the Enabling Enterprise team to take part in a day which focused on building teamwork skills. The event was hosted at Freshfields and gave students the chance to see inside a top law firm. The students were [...]

On the afternoon of the 31st of May – the first official day of the summer half term, ten young people from PHASCA, a Haringey Youth Group, attended a presentation day at Societe Generale. The overarching aim of the day was to generate a business idea which participants would then be able to develop. The [...]

On the 18th of May Enabling Enterprise held its annual celebration event – which was an opportunity to recognise the achievements of some of the schools who have taken part in the programme in addition to discuss a crucial question “what is the most important thing students need to succeed?” The stellar panel was chaired [...]

On the 6th of May, students from Cardinal Pole visited Oliver Wyman to experience firsthand the challenges a management consultant faces day to day. After a short introduction on the company, the nine students were given a supermarket challenge for the fictional store called Uncle Oliver’s. The students dived into the tasks, which included coming [...]

Friday saw two of the schools on our MFL programme come together at international law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. The students from St Paul’s Academy and Feltham Community College have been creating their very own international enterprise over the year, drawing on both their language skills and developing business acumen to raise their peers’ [...]