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February 2007

Year 10 and 11 students from the Ashley School took part in a day of activities centered around the development of employability skills. The photo shows students taking part in a fun workshop designed to encourage students to promote themselves in a positive manner.

"How To" at Sir John Leman High School, Beccles

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29 November 2007

Enterprise Lowestoft delivered a 1  day enterprise activity to  Year 10..
The year group was split and delivery  took place over two weeks. Students developed a board game based on issues of concern to them either locally or globally.

The concepts were taken through to construction and overall winners chosen at the final presentation of each  year group.   A guest was invited into the school for the judging.

At the final Presentation the Head of Year 10 announced  that further development  of the ideas  shown on the board game would be explored in class.

Fishin for local history

Dugald Ferguson

30 August 2007

A successful bid by Enterprise Lowestoft cic means that young people of the schools in Lowestoft and Gt. Yarmouth will be asking all sorts of questions to find out what their mums, dads, grandparents and any one you care to name did in their younger days, what games they played and what life was like. Heritage Lottery Fund liked the Enterprise Lowestoft’s proposal so much that it has awarded a sizeable grant to enable the students in schools in and between Lowestoft and Gt. Yarmouth to work with Enterprise Lowestoft cic, local heritage organisations, The Seachange Trust and Waveney Arts and Heritage. The purpose of the project is to build an exhibition by the people of these places for the people of these places about themselves and where they come from. Next summer it will be on show simultaneously in both towns to celebrate differences, similarities and show off the richness of life on the east coast during the last 70 years or so.

Finding out where they have come from and how it was for older people in their families and neighbourhoods will be a source, not only of interest but also of reassurance and excitement for their own futures as well as enabling young people to understand and celebrate their own enterprising backgrounds. This has been an area of great enterprise down the centuries. The fact that it still is and has a great future as an area of enterprising people is something that tends to be downplayed or even ignored these days. This project will help to change minds and self perceptions. You could be the object of historical research for your child, your grandchild, a neighbour’s child or a younger brother or sister. Don’t behave like a relic. Shout your story from the rooftops and share it. If you have any interesting old artefacts lurking in the loft of interest, share those too – in picture form if they are too precious to let out of your sight. Several schools and youth organisations have already signed up for the project.

Teen Break at The Marlborough School, Woodstock, Oxfordshire

Sharon Whittaker, Business and Enterprise Co-ordinator

21 February 2007

We used the resources for Teenbreak with our Year 9's earlier this academic year and found them to be very useful, easy to adapt for time limitations, easy for the students to understand and use and of a high quality. We split the year group into three separate Wednesdays and the students gave presentations at the end. We then took a winning team from each session and they then presented to the Assistant Headteacher, Head of Year and an outside visitor who then chose an overall winning team. All staff involved with the day were very impressed with the work that the students achieved in one day, the information they gathered and the final presentations, so big success.

Guardian Newspaper Article

Liza Ramrayka

04 January 2006

Extract from What’s the big idea: The Guardian - Tuesday 21 November 2006 by Liza Ramrayka

“At the heart of enterprise are big ideas.  The thing is to give young people inspiration.”

Local companies, including big names such as Adnams Brewery, took part in Kirkley’s Enterprise Week, organised by the Suffolk school in collaboration with Enterprise Lowestoft, a community interest company (CIC) set up to build links between educational establishments and businesses in the county.  Activities included talks with local business people, presentations and work taster sessions.  Rock legend, Gene Simmons delivered an inspirational message for would-be entrepreneurs: “Everyone has a dream; it’s all about making it happen because dreams can come true”.

Seventeen Year old Martin Watters was a student at Kirkley during last year’s event.  Now studying at sixth-form college for a BTEC in media studies, Watters wanted to start a radio station at the school in 2005 with support from Adnams and Enterprise Lowestoft.  This led to his first big ‘gig’ acting as MC at the celebration event at the end of Enterprise Week.  It involved introducing local MPs and other speakers to an audience including 400 people from local companies.

Enterprise Week: Lowestoft’s visitor, Patrick Shipp from the DfES

Dugald Ferguson

05 December 2006

One of the most eminent visitors to see the input of Enterprise Lowestoft cic into the huge range of activities that took place in Lowestoft this week was Patrick Shipp, a senior civil servant from the DfES department of Work Related Learning and Enterprise. He has been a major supporter of Enterprise Education in Lowestoft since the inception of the two Pathfinders underwritten by the DfES as well as investing in the establishment of Enterprise Lowestoft cic. Patrick spent Wednesday touring a variety of activities in the Denes High School, Sir John Leman in Beccles, Kirkley Middle School and the lighting of the beacon of Enterprise at the Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club, where he met local celebrity, young Chris Hardiman, and the originator of the Beacons for the Millennium, Bruno Peek.

“It is a tribute to all of those concerned with Enterprise Lowestoft and the local Business and Enterprise College, The Denes High School, that the enterprise activities that are now inspiring the wider community continue to happen and a privilege for me to feel a part of that,” Patrick said as he reflected on his day’s visit. Enterprise Lowestoft has supported and worked closely with Saskia Kent, the local Hub Director of Enterprise Insight to ensure that Enterprise Week in Waveney district has been the outstanding success it has, even measured against events nationwide.

On the crest of a wave

D. Ferguson

13 November 2006

Enterprise Lowestoft cic is one year old. The ‘cic’ stands for community interest company, which means that this is a social enterprise, with any surplus going back directly into the community. Its purpose is to work tirelessly to support the development of serious and meaningful enterprise programmes within and beyond schools. The end result is to assist young people in raising and achieving their aspirations as well as nurturing employability and entrepreneurial skills. Without any sense of complacency, the company can reflect on a successful first year of operation.people in raising and achieving their aspirations as well as nurturing employability and entrepreneurial skills. Without any sense of complacency, the company can reflect on a successful first year of operation.

Those achievements make an impressive list. Amongst them are winning the title of Enterprise Insight Hub for the town (along with Wakefield, Liverpool and Coventry). This national strategic body is bringing a high level of support and encouragement for enterprising young people aged 16-30. Programmes the company has won funding to develop include working with young people from Kirkley ward who are not in employment, education or training as part of Waveney District Council’s Sunrise Scheme. Additional to this are the Kirkley Village project, funded by English Heritage; work with Suffolk schools in partnership with Pride of Place, funded by Suffolk Development Agency as a part of the county-wide Investing in Communities programme; leading an e-mentoring programme for Suffolk schools, funded by Aim Higher and coordinated by Madeleine Heath; the Workwise Programme and the Engineering projects, both funded by the Suffolk LSC and involving in depth commitment from a number of Lowestoft companies, coordinated by Madeleine Heath and Cheryl Willis. Both Cheryl and Madeleine are well known within the town as effective Enterprise Advisers with Enterprise Lowestoft. Other creative enterprise projects include the relationship with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the delivery of the Summer School programme to Middle School students. The list goes on…

The Kirkley Village Project- Young voices are heard.

Mike Pinner

03 November 2006

Young people in the Kirkley area have taken thir first steps towards managing and shaping the agenda for change in the Kirkley area. Led by sixth formers from Kirkley High School, young people in first and middle schools in the area are mounting a 'mini conference' in which their views on local regeneration will be presented to adults charged with local development.

The Kirkley Village Young Roots Project has been funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and is supported by staff from Enterprise Lowestoft. The scheme aims to celebarate the past, present and future of Kirkley village through creating a 'young voice for regeneration' in the area.

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