News: Hull and Rotherham Ready event

The Hull Youth Enterprise and Rotherham Ready partnerships have held a successful event as part of Business Week 2010.

Children from five primary schools (East Halton Primary, Highland Primary, North Ferriby, Thorpepark from Hull and Thorpe Hesley Junior School from Rotherham) presented their enterprise stories to an audience of leading politicians as well as key education and business opinion formers from across the Humber at Craven Park, the home of Hull Kingston Rovers.

At the event delegates also heard from Claire Young, runner up in the BBC series "The Apprentice" in 2008 and an Ambassador for Enterprise UK. After their presentations, the children set the adults a task of designing and marketing a t-shirt to promote Business Week 2011 or Global Entreprenurship Week 2010 with a World Cup theme.

Claire Young said: "Enterprise is open to everyone and anyone, and Hull and Rotherham are certainly leading the way in how they work with their primary pupils.

"Programmes like "Junior Apprentice", "The Apprentice" and "Dragon's Den" have made business and enterprise much more accessible and exciting to young people and hopefully removed some of the common misconceptions."

Neil Hudgell, Chairman of Hull Kingston Rovers presented Paula Harmer the Headteacher of Thorpe Hesley from Rotherham with flowers from the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership and a cheque for £200 for the school, from the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank, to help them with their enterprising ideas.

Neil Hudgell said "Yet again, the young people showed that they are all developing their enterprise skills and they are our future and they are certainly ready to take on the challenges of tomorrow."

Hull Ready is a replica of the Rotherham programme established by the Rotherham Ready team.

Rotherham Ready website
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