Enterprise Activity at Sandford Hill Primary School

About the Business Leaders

These business leaders have been chosen because their companies are growing quickly.

About the teacher and students

The event was created by Palvinder Dulai for 75 students at Sandford Hill Primary School aged Age 10 - 11.

Event description

Enterprise Activity at Sandford Primary- over 3 dates
Inspire our students
(Business in the Community event)

Enterprise Activities are an interactive way for young people to develop their employability and enterprise skills. They also help to raise young people’s self-awareness of their own enterprise capabilities and their business and economic understanding.

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 project or anything else, is a key transferable skill to any career path. Competitions give young people the opportunities to prepare and practice their pitching skills to real life business leaders and receive feedback.
An excellent opportunity for entrepreneurs and business volunteers to take part in an exciting fully funded project around Enterprise and the Ceramics Industry. The challenge is being delivered by The Enterprise Challenge Team in collaboration with The British Ceramic Confederation and Business in the Community (BITC).
The Ceramics Challenge saw the first wave delivered successfully with over 100 Yr 9 – 10 students who were supported by business mentors for 2 hours, over 3 sessions from January – March and culminated with a final, held at the Victoria Concert Hall in Stoke.

The challenge is now recruiting business mentors to support the second wave of students, which will be a younger cohort from Yr 6 – Yr8. 10 schools will have teams of 30 students (3 teams per school) working on real life business challenges set by the industry and delivered after school. 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. Sandford Primary Dates 2nd May, 6th June and 4th July. Finals date 15th July from 1.45pm - 7.30pm

If you are interested in supporting and would like more information, 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..