The Future is Yours

National Enterprise Week ran from the 12 - 18 November 2007. This annual UK-wide week of activities aimed to inspire people to be enterprising - to turn ideas into something real.

In Northern Ireland, Enterprise week promoted entrepreneurial activities across a broad cross section of the population, including educational institutions. Throughout the week, schools, colleges and universities were invited to attend activities and events catering for students from key stage two through to higher education.

As a forerunner to these exciting events Invest Northern Ireland, as part of the Go For It campaign, ran an entrepreneurship challenge for key stage three pupils (11-14 yrs old).

Health and safety is a major focus for schools, businesses and each of us as individuals. It is regularly featured in the media and is impacting on all areas of our lifestyle including travel, work and leisure time.

Challenge

By adopting the health and safety theme, pupils had to come up with a new business concept or product that could be presented to a panel of high profile Northern Ireland entrepreneurs.

Each proposal included:

• Details of the concept or product/s
• Branding / logo
• Marketing plan

Winners

Bangor Grammar were the overall winners of the competition and recevied:

• £5,000 worth of ICT equipment for the school
• Each pupil from the team received a laptop computer
• A specially commissioned award

Contact

For further information contact:

Karen Wilson
Bedford Square
Bedford Street
Belfast

E: karen.wilson@investni.com
T: 028 9069 8272