We supported young people to develop their own ideas for setting up a business

The SSE Young Entrepreneurs Programmes enabled young people to develop their confidence, resilience and business skills necessary to be a successful social entrepreneur and the vision, values and ethics needed to set up a social enterprise. 

Modules included: business planning; leadership and people management; finance; mission, vision and goal setting; marketing, branding and advertising; pitching your idea. The programme finished with an awards ceremony to which local businesses, parents, press and others were invited. Young people presented their enterprise ideas and celebrated their achievements on the course.

We provided the programme to schools, colleges and universities.

In 2014, we delivered the programme to 7 students at Warblington School. Here are some of the feedback we recieved from students about the programme:

“I learnt how to set up a business and get one going. I feel more confident now that I know what to do…”

“I am not great at presenting stuff or going for ideas but this has given me the confidence to do all that.”

“This programme gave me a lot more ideas on how to start and has inspired me to see that it doesn’t matter how small things start because it could grow big.”

“This course has taught me how to work in steps to create the foundations of my enterprise and how to plan it all out when I start working on it from home.”

“The programme has taught me lots of skills and I would recommend it to other people.”