Links to other resources
Enterprise Insight
www.starttalkingideas.org
Enterprise Insight lead the Make Your Mark – Start Talking Ideas campaign, which aims to inspire young people to develop as people who make ideas happen - to believe in themselves as agents for change. It is also about organisations giving young people the space to make their mark.
Shell Livewire
www.shell-livewire.org
Shell LiveWIRE helps 16-30 year olds to start and develop their own business and hosts a national competition for new business start-ups.
Dragons' Den
www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden
Dragons' Den is a TV series where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to secure investment finance from the dragons - elite business entrepreneurs!
Enterprise Nation
www.enterprisenation.com
This site has been developed for people who are starting and running a business based at home. Through features, news stories and top tips, the site offers information and inspiration to homeworkers across the UK. The Enterprise Nation magazine will be available from November 2006 as well as online podcasts and competitions. Visit the site to find out how you can start and grow your business at home.
Enterprise Island
I am enterprising
Rotherham Ready
www.rotherhamready.org.uk
The vision for Rotherham Ready is that the enterprise activities form a ladder of entitlement and ensure a progressive development of enterprise skills, knowledge and qualities from 4-19. That Rotherham, as a Beacon Enterprise Council, is formally acknowledged as a Centre of Excellence of Enterprise Education providing support and guidance to regional, national and international partners and that through key partners, including frameworks such as Investors in Education, a coherent system for education/business enterprise activity is established which fosters high quality relationships between education and the business community.
Connect Yorkshire
www.connectyorkshire.org
Connect Yorkshire is the fast track to growth for Yorkshire's technology and life-science companies. We nurture new knowledge-based enterprises by linking them with the resources they need to succeed: investment, markets, management, partners, and support services. As part of this process, we match innovative young companies with investors looking for growth.