Enabling Enterprise Launches Half Year Programme:
This January, Enabling Enterprise is launching an exciting new opportunity for teachers hoping to develop their students’ skills, experiences and aspirations with our Half Year Programme. In response to the needs of our current teachers, we have developed a six-month version of our Core Programmes.

This initiative will enable teachers to [...]

And finally:
The final round of the Enabling Enterprise Christmas Challenge 2010 rolled into Nottingham this week through the snow. Too much snow, it turned out, as one of our competing schools, Dukeries College, fell at the first hurdle when they were unable to get their minibus out of the school site. But that didn’t make [...]

Students from The Petchey Academy in Hackney had the chance to venture right into the heart of the City this Friday for a day out at the UBS offices on Liverpool Street. The day provided an opportunity for the students to see inside one of the country’s biggest investment banks, to learn about their work, [...]

Taking the Challenge to Manchester:
On Monday the team ventured northwards through wind and snow to lay down the gauntlet for students at two of our Manchester schools to pit their wits against the Enabling Enterprise Christmas Card Challenge.

Working in smaller teams than their London counterparts, each member had to get stuck into the design [...]

Fifty students from three London schools came together this Tuesday for a day full of excitement and energy as they tackled the Enabling Enterprise Christmas Card Challenge. Students from Haberdashers’ Askes’ Knights Academy, Longford Community School and Greenford High School learnt about the processes involved in running a micro-business, but more importantly, they had the [...]

Enabling Enterprise was delighted this week to be recognised as one of the Top Ten Organisations at the Future 100 Awards 2010. The Future 100 exists to award recognition to organisations that offer innovative and sustainable solutions to social problems, and promote responsible business practice. It is organised by Striding Out, a social enterprise which [...]

At Oliver Wyman:
One of our long-standing supporters, Oliver Wyman, put on a great day for students from Bishop Douglass School in Finchley on Friday. The management consultancy gave the Year 10 and 11 students a well-rounded introduction to the real world of business through a series of through-provoking presentations and business games – and quite [...]

Feltham Community College:
Students on our French course from Feltham Community College had the opportunity to put their international business skills into action on Thursday. After travelling all the way across London, the 13- and 14-year-old students were welcomed into Societe Generale – one of the world’s largest banks, headquartered in Paris but with offices all [...]

Inspired by the results from their Enabling Enterprise courses, students and teachers at The Isle of Sheppey Academy have taken the concept one step further by opening a shop of their own. Located on the main high street on the island, the aim is to build links between the school and the community and regenerate [...]

Start Ups

Enabling Enterprise was featured in Start Ups online magazine on the 13th October. We’ve re-printed the article here:

Enterprise Education

Enterprise education is widely recognised as the best way to pull our nation out of the financial abyss. Politicians and business folk alike have argued over what the most effective means to ensure recovery are, but [...]