Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009

With Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) 2009 quickly approaching (16 – 22 November) why not take the opportunity to get thinking about ideas for your school, college, university or organisation to get involved and help individuals in your local community harness their talent and realise their full potential.

During Global Entrepreneurship Week thousands of events are run in the UK and across the world to encourage people to be entrepreneurial. It creates mass participation and exposes people of all ages and abilities to quality enterprise experiences – from school students to university graduates and from employees to enterprising people looking to get back to work. Last year over three million people attend 25,000 events in seventy seven countries.

New this year for GEW, they have developed criteria which will enable you to organise events that have a positive and lasting impact on your participants. If you’d like some inspiration to get you started with your GEW planning, GEW have identified some key areas that you may want to think about when planning a high quality Global Entreprenship event. To read more about high impact events please visit: www.gew.org.uk/highimpact and discover the amazing prizes on offer to the most impactful events.

The week kicks off on Monday 16th November with the Make your Mark Challenge, the UK’s largest one-day enterprise competition for schools and colleges. It’s free to enter and offers an effective way to engage 14-19 year olds in a fun and rewarding enterprise activity. Find out more on: www.makeyourmarkchallenge.org.uk

Wednesday 18th November is Women’s enterprise day, which celebrates women in business and encouraging many more to turn their passions into profit. Organisations all over the UK will be hosting events and activities.

Thursday 19th November is social enterprise day, which see’s dynamic businesses delivering lasting social and environmental change. 

If you’ve already done the planning and have a superb idea for an event with the planning already being underway why not let Make Your Mark know about them and be in with a chance to win some goodies.

Also don’t forget to report back your activities, send in your inspiring stories and the best ones will get published on the GEW website and in marketing materials for 2010.
To ensure your activities are part of the official Events Calendar, register them at gew.org.uk/register, this will also allow you to order all the free merchandise, such as pens, badges and stickers available.

Visit www.makeyourmark.org.uk or www.gew.org.uk for further information on Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009 and other Enterprise Insight initiatives.