To cultivate an entrepreneurial culture amongst the city’s next generation of business people. Our vision is to work with young people aged from 4 – 24 to secure a positive and sustainable future for the City. All of this is achieved through engaging with successful companies and individuals to form solid partnerships. Our vision encourages the experience and passion to develop the young people and future entrepreneurs of our City.
Our vision is to establish a spectrum of enterprise opportunities to allow all young people aged from 4-24 to engage with enterprise.
Our vision is shared with our partners in local business and successful entrepreneurs.
Our Belief
We believe that allowing young people to engage in enterprise education while in school, doubles the potential of them starting their own business, becoming self sufficent and building their own future. We believe that entrepreneurs really can be made with the right support, direction and encouragement.
We believe we have a responsibility to allow young people to be enterprising and teach them the entrepreneurial mindset. Doing this will build their personal confidence, aspiration levels and make them ambitious. We can make them influence their own opportunities in the 21st century.
We believe there is a need to promote young entrepreneurs as role models both within and outside the City.
Our Aims:
To educate and influence regional and national partners about the enterprise agenda
To rebuild Hull’s young entrepreneurial culture as part of rebalancing the local economy
To open doors and give the opportunity for the young people to transition and go into business whilst still learning
To support current and future providers to deliver quality programmes
To enable young people to have an active involvement in the work of all spectrums of enterprise
To establish a young entrepreneurs’ Speakers Programme and Enterprise Network.
To engage with business and young people in order to develop their understanding of the 13 key enterprise skills
The Youth Enterprise Charter alongside the Employment Charter formalises a set of principals designed to bridge the gap between education and business. They both allow young people, teachers/tutors and businesses to work together in partnership. This engagement helps to develop young people’s knowledge and understanding of enterprise so they can become either enterprising employees or future entrepreneurs.
The Charter agrees the ways in which businesses can work together with students, teachers/tutors. It creates a common understanding of the skills, language and expectations of Hull’s young people as they become more enterprising.
The following provides examples of how teachers/tutors and businesses can work in partnership to support the development of enterprise skills in Hull’s young people.
Provide young people with the opportunity to learn by doing from entrepreneurs about how they operate their business outside the learning environment
Provide the opportunity for young people to undertake the opportunity of running businesses within or outside an educational setting
Support Enterprise Activities e.g. £5 Blossom and Badgers Sett Enterprise Challenge
Support opportunities for those young people that wish to develop their enterprising idea through mentors
Through supporting the above activities young people, teachers/tutors and businesses will achieve a range of the outcomes listed below.
Outcomes:
To establish and train an Enterprise Champion in every school, college, training provider and organisation that works with young people
To improve young people’s knowledge of the value of the Big 13 Enterprise Skills
To produce more young entrepreneurs and business start-ups
To enable more young people to access the Youth Enterprise Bank
More young people participating in enterprise challenges with sustainable business outcomes
Hull’s businesses have opportunities to share their successes with young people and in turn contribute to young people’s experience of enterprise
Hear young entrepreneurs talk about their “enterprise” journey
To give young people more skills to be “work ready”
Enable young people to explore / identify what the business needs from them
Allow young people to articulate their ideas and energy in a language understood by business
Youth Enterprise Charter
Our Belief
