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Lowestoft Energy Challenge |
Admin |
23 July 2009 |
The Celebration of the Achievements of The Lowestoft Energy Challenge took place at OrbisEnergy, Lowestoft in July.
The project launched 18 months ago and the aim was to encourage young people to take action on climate change and look at ways they could save energy in their schools and college.
Read the rest of this article on the Case Study Page |
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YES – October 2008 – May 2009 |
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October 2008 |
YES is an exciting new project for budding entrepreneurs aged 15 -19 in Waveney. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity for young people to develop the right tools to enter the world of enterprise. It will fast track young people and develop their strengths in an innovative way. They will be guided through a journey of self discovery and have their eyes opened to new opportunities. The project draws on the extensive experience and enthusiasm of a panel of successful entrepreneurs who have worked with Enterprise Lowestoft cic to create this first class opportunity for young people in Waveney.
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Developing Sustainable Communities Jan – July 2009 |
Admin |
October 2008 |
Enterprise Lowestoft CIC, working with Arup and the Department for Communities and Local Government, supported by DEFRA, the DSCF, the SSAT, BERR and the Make Your Mark Campaign have developed a national competition for schools which involves young people in designing aspects of environmentally low impact new communities. Schools all over the country will be taking part and all regional finalists will be invited to London to an awards ceremony. The competition gives young people the chance to form a youth advisory council to inform government thinking and, for some of them, the chance to see their ideas modelled professionally. Watch the press for the competition launch! |
Trial of competition materials,
Kirkley High School students,
July 11th 2008 |
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Maths in Action 2009 |
Admin |
October 2008 |
Sixth Form maths students from the three Lowestoft High schools will be taking part – for the third year running – in the Enterprise Lowestoft led Maths in Action project. The project links young people with engineering firms and they are set a real life industry based challenge to solve. |
Maths in Action |
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Enterprise Week 2008 17th – 21st November 2008 |
Admin |
October 2008 |
Enterprise Lowestoft cic are organising Enterprise week 2008 in the East of England. Beccie Simpson, Campaign Manager for Make Your Mark and Hazel Johnson Acting Head of Region East of England & Chair, Enterprise Lowestoft are organising numerous events in the region. Contact Beccie on: beccie@makeyourmark.org.uk for more information.
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Enhanced WorkWise |
Admin |
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.
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"How To" at Sir John Leman High School, Beccles |
Admin |
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.
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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.
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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.
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