EDUCATION charity Young Enterprise runs programmes for more than 75,000 young people each year though the support of businesses and volunteers. It operates in East Lancashire from headquarters at the Junction Seven Business Park at Clayton-le-Moors.
Its mission is "to inspire and equip young people to learn and succeed through enterprise."
Young Enterprise programmes include running a real company and learning about aspects of business from the first-hand experiences of volunteers.
The Primary Programme, for instance, is aimed at being fun, with a series of interactive lessons presented by a business volunteer in school to a whole class. There are six different modules for four to 11-year-olds. In the Company Programme, students aged from 15 to 19 set up and run their own company over the course of one academic year. They elect directors from among their peers, raise share capital and market and finance a product or service. At the end of the year they liquidate the company and present a report and accounts.
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