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UK gears up for fourth Enterprise Week |
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| 22/10/2007 | |
| This year’s Enterprise Week- the biggest annual celebration of all things enterprising across the UK - will focus on the future of enterprise and entrepreneurship. Events and activities will look at the hot topics and trends that are predicted to continue. Highlights include: * Make Your Mark’s fourth annual conference will launch Enterprise Week 2007 on Monday 12 November. The event at the British Library will debate what the Future Face of Enterprise looks like. Speakers include Ben Verwaayen, Chief Executive BT, Joanna Shields, President International of Bebo and Lucy Neville-Rolfe CMG, Corporate and Legal Affairs Director, Tesco Plc. * The Make Your Mark Challenge will go live at 9.00am on Monday 12 November when the enterprise competition is revealed online by hip hop star Akala. Open to schools, colleges and universities, the Challenge will ask students to think about the impact their ideas can have on the world around them. * On Tuesday 13 November international business leaders will come together to launch Global Entrepreneurship Week 2008, to which the USA, China and India have already signed up. * One of the highlights of Women’s Enterprise Day on Wednesday 14 November is a Retailers High Tea at Fortnum & Mason, hosted by their MD Beverley Aspinall. Leading female business leaders will discuss what the sector can do to encourage enterprise amongst its young workforce and how to encourage more women into senior management. * On Wednesday 14 November inspirational and successful Teenpreneurs including Ben Way and Emily Cummins hit the stage at the British Library. * Thursday 15 November is Social Enterprise Day and Make Your Mark in a Minute will see budding young social entrepreneurs pitching for the chance to win funding from UnLtd. Social networking site Bebo will be hosting an online public vote to decide the winner. * Friday 16 November sees the launch of the Make Your Mark at Work toolkit, a one stop shop for employers who are looking for practical ways to encourage employees to network and come up with innovative ideas. The week is co-ordinated by the national Make Your Mark campaign which aims to kick-start a more enterprising culture amongst 14-30 year olds in the UK. In Enterprise Week last year over 448,000 people took part in 3,184 events nationwide – 44 per cent more than the previous year. |
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