This week we had some pupils and teachers from Quilley School, Eastleigh talking about their experiences with their Quilley Enterprise Project. This involved over 200  pupils from three year groups working with local business owners which included members from FSB and SBGN and Sainsburys (Hedge End). “The project is part of the student’s enrichment activities that we run every year and it gives them a break from the usual routine  and this time we wanted to introduce them to the idea of enterprise” said Mrs Goodridge, assistant head teacher.

There were many good ideas but the final winners who were chosen by the ‘dragons’ were “Book Huggers” with an idea for a book mark which helped dyslexic people using coloured overlays, In second place was a group who had an idea for Bespoke Perfumed Bottles and in third place Fruiti Fresh Smoothies which used natural ingredients.  All of the students had to elect officers (MD, Marketing etc) and then create a business plan and do research and create marketing plans as well as present the idea to their peers.

All of the dragons agreed that the groups had worked hard on their ideas. We invited the winners to the studio to talk on community hour and their mentor for the project Paul Marsh from Century IT phoned in to give his feedback. “They were all winners and I hope that more businesses will get involved with helping schools and colleges to have this experience” said Paul  If you are interested in helping in schools and colleges please contact us on enterprise@sbgn.co.uk

The community hour was presented by Lilly Arora (Unity 101) and David Vane (SBGN) and if you would like to hear it you can listen hear – Listen again 

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