Enterprise Competition at Watermill School

About the Business Leaders

These business leaders have been chosen because their companies are growing quickly. Combined they employ 18+ people.

About the teacher and students

The event was created by Palvinder Dulai for 50 students at Watermill School aged Age 14 - 15.

Event description

Enterprise Competition at Watermill School.
A SEND school teaching students with moderate to severe learning needs aged 3 - 16 year olds.

A school Enterprise Competition marks a fitting end to a wider school project in which young people use a group activity to solve a real-life business challenge. The ability to pitch an idea for a new venture, a project or anything else, is a key transferable skill to any career path. Competitions gives young people the opportunities to prepare and practice their pitching skills to real life business leaders and receive feedback. Inspire our students
(Business in the Community event)

An excellent opportunity for entrepreneurs and business volunteers to take part in a new and exciting fully funded project around Enterprise and the Ceramics Industry. The Ceramics Challenge, is being delivered by The Enterprise Challenge Team in collaboration with The British Ceramic Confederation and Business in the Community (BITC). The challenge will see teams of 30 students (3 teams per school) working on real life business challenges set by the industry and delivered after school. 3 x Mixed groups Year 9 & 10 students will be set three different challenges. The role of the Business Mentor is to support students to formulate and develop their enterprise ideas over 3 scheduled sessions spread over a number of weeks and lasting 2 hours/session.
We also have similar opportunities at other schools. If you would like to know more and are interested in supporting these events, please contact either:-
Palvinder Dulai palvinder.dulai@bitc.org.uk M:07803 746618 or Nuria De La Fuente Nuria.DeLaFuente@bitc.org.uk M:07725 638028

Business in the Community (BITC) are the Prince’s Responsible Business Network, existing to create healthy communities with successful business at their heart. We were born out of a response to the Toxteth and Brixton Riots in 1981. Over the years we have helped to establish the wider agenda for corporate responsibility. Today, BITC has over half of the FTSE 100 as active members, as part of a membership of 800 businesses, and reaches hundreds more through its campaigns, with over 350 business leaders taking active business roles.
Our work in Education is centred on enabling business to play its part so that every young person, particularly those facing social disadvantage, achieves in education, leading to a successful working life, thriving in business.