Today marked the launch of our Impact Report for 2010-2011. This is an assessment of the impact and reach that Enabling Enterprise had over the course of the last academic year. Information was gathered from students and teachers who have been involved in our programmes, and was then used to identify how students’ skills and [...]
On Friday 25th November, Year 5 students from Plaistow Primary School in Newham got a glimpse of life at top law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. Having quizzed volunteers about their work and tested their skills in a game of Zip Zap Boing, students began to plan their strategy for the task ahead – to [...]
Events galore this week with PWC offices in Uxbridge and Charing Cross hosting challenges (not to mention the one in Birmingham) with fantastic support from their volunteers. Up in Uxbridge a class of Year 8 Abbotsfield students showed us how teamwork really should be done! Starting off the day with an already impressive knowledge of [...]
Enabling Enterprise and City and Islington College both had a fantastic time at the first Argent event on Wednesday. Responsible for the 10-year King’s Cross redevelopment project, Argent gave the students fantastic insight into the complexities of such a process. Making use of the engineering background most of the volunteers admitted to, the students were [...]
Students from Manchester Enterprise Academy and Our Lady’s High School came together at the grand offices of PwC in Manchester city centre. Working in small, mixed age teams students got to know their PwC helpers before the main challenge of the day was revealed – to build a prototype bridge at least one metre long! [...]
Our first event hosted by the international media communications company OMD gave Year 11 Media students from City of London Academy Islington a fantastic hands on experience of how media works in the professional world. Taking place over two sessions the event was a eye-opening experience for all the students and got them seriously thinking! [...]
It was a very busy day for Year 5 students from Rookery School in Handsworth and Year 6 students from Brookvale Primary School in Erdington. Following some fun warm up games, students began to feel more at home in the offices of PwC. The challenge for the day was to set up a Christmas card [...]
A great day at Bromford Group’s Solihull offices as the Hands-on Housing Challenge showed Year 11 students from Turves Green Boys School a new perspective on enterprise. Pitching for a major contract to develop a plot of land, the three student teams became competing housing associations working to come up with best ideas for the [...]
With the excitement of the up-coming Global Entrepreneurship Week building, we are thrilled to have been recognised by the GEW team with a High Impact Award for our event: The Aldridge GEW Challenge. The event sees students from the Aldridge Academies and Writhlington School become social entrepreneurs for the day, as they come up with [...]
So many teachers have asked us to help them create Challenge Days for their schools, that we’ve decided to go one better – and we proudly introduce Edventuring. Whether you want to engage students with PSHE, Citizenship, Enterprise or anything else, we want to make off-timetable days brilliant, by applying the Enabling Enterprise approach: Clear, [...]
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