November is Enterprise Month.
Here’s a wee nugget of good stuff from last year from Education Scotland. Packed full of ideas and resources.
Click on the pic for the link.
Category Archives: ASN Enterprise
Creative Enterprise Fund – Act soon!
Funding Available – Click on the Picture for more details!
| Creative Enterprise Fund Launched for Young Entrepreneurs |
| The Creative Enterprise Fund is designed to support young people in Scotland, aged 15-22, with activities which allow them to flourish within the creative industries. It aims to encourage enterprising and innovative ideas and assist these young people to become creative leaders.
Funding is available to individuals and groups. The maximum amount available to individuals is £200 and the maximum available to groups is £750. The Fund can support a variety of creative ventures. Examples of eligible projects include:
Young people living in Scotland aged 15-22 are eligible. Applications must be from Young Scot cardholders and include the Young Scot cardholder’s Young Scot card number. If applying as a group, a Young Scot cardholder must fill in the application. Groups are classed as three or more people and at least two-thirds of any group should be aged 15-22 years. The Creative Enterprise Fund Grants Committee meets every two months. The next deadline for applications is Monday 14 November 2011. |
Get Set!
If your IDL task is on the theme of the Olympic Games, or if you are going to do absolutely anything within your classes related to London 2012, please register with Get Set! Click on the pic for the link.
Registration closes in December!
Social Enterprise Academy Information
We are very fortunate to have Claire Fraser and Bert McGlone from the Scottish Social Enterprise Academy coming along to our next Primary Business meeting on the 28th October. To find out more information please check out their brilliant website and blog.
We’ll be hosting a Understanding Social Enterprise Workshop on the 25th November. It is funded by the Scottish Government – more details to follow. If you’re interested please email Lynn.
http://www.theacademy-ssea.org/
Thinking about thinking?
Here’s an interesting website – well worth taking a look around and subscribing to the podcasts on itunes.
World of Work Online Tool
If you haven’t already, check out Skills Development Scotland’s World of Work online tool.
It cleverly analyses using a number of clever and engaging approaches.
Especially try the ‘My DNA’ section.
Food for thought for students and teachers alike.
Young Enterprise Scotland
Young Enterprise Scotland (YES) work with young people between 5 and 25 to give them business skills to reach their full potential. This year YES are holding a beginning of year event on Wednesday 28th September between 1630hrs and 1730hrs in the offices of Document Outsourcing:
Document Outsourcing Ltd
Document House
Phoenix Crescent
Strathclyde Business Park
Bellshill
ML4 3NJ
All who have been involved in YES in the past, or who would link to find out more are welcome to the event. Please contact Jim Lawson or Lynn Taylor to register your interest.
If you already participate in YES and have a business adviser could you please get in touch and let us know who they are and provide us with updated contact details for our records. Thanks.
GO-XL! Launch Update
GO-XL! Will launch in Committee Room 1 in Kildonan Street on Tuesday 27th September between 0900hrs and 1115hrs. Many schools have already expressed their interest to be involved. If your school would like to participate in this event please contact Jim Lawson as soon as possible.
Enterprise Coordinators and representatives from the schools involved who will be working with the pupils are most welcome, as are representatives from associated cluster primaries. Time will be given during the morning for clusters to get together and organise their arrangements.
The programme for the morning is as follows:
0930hrs – Registration and Welcome
0940hrs – Project Background
1000hrs – Project Arrangements
1020hrs – Break
1040hrs – Cluster Arrangements
1115hrs – Close
For any more information please email either Jim Lawson or Lynn Taylor.
GO-XL Expressions of Interest
You will be aware that in recent years we have successfully linked with Foundry Music Lab in Wishaw to produce Project X.
The new project will be run along similar lines to Project X but with a major difference.
Whereas in the past the invitation to take part was restricted to Secondary/ASN establishments, this time it is intended to ask Secondary and Primary schools to work together in clusters thus making it cross sectoral as well as cross curricular. There will be a place set aside each year for ASN Establishments.
As we hope to be able to run this for the next 2 sessions we are restricting this session’s invitation to those schools in the south of the authority i.e. schools in the Motherwell, Wishaw and Bellshill areas. It is intended to invite those schools in the north i.e. Coatbridge, Airdrie and Cumbernauld to take part next session.
The proposal is that the management teams and bands will comprise secondary students only with a small group of primary pupils (maximum 12) joining the band to record 2 tracks for the CD/Download and perform at the launch gig in March 2012.
The timeline for the initiative is as follows:
Expressions of Interest to Jim Lawson by close of business on Friday 16 September to lawsonj @ northlan. gov. uk (remove spaces)
Launch in Committee Room 1, to be attended by Enterprise Co-ordinators, on Tuesday 27 September from 9.30 am until 11.30 am
Start of project meetings at Foundry Music Lab during the week beginning 10 October
Download Launch gig towards the end of March 2012, exact date and venue to be confirmed
If you have any queries about any of the above information please do not hesitate to contact Jim Lawson on 01236 812626 or Lynn Taylor through First Class email.
Rock Challenge
Brand New to Enterprise this session is Rock Challenge. This is not linked in any way to either Project X or its successor Go XL.
To see information click here.
If you are interested in participating in this challenge please email Jim Lawson at NLC UG – you’ll find this in First Class.
Jim has added an edited version of the PDF file on the Rock Challenge to the North Lanarkshire Enterprise Glow Group for further brief background information. You’ll find the documents at the bottom of the Enterprise Glow group home page.
