Dragons’ Lair Enterprise Challenge – Winners !

“In October 2018 along with teams from 22 other schools in North Lanarkshire we entered the Dragons’ Lair Enterprise Challenge.  We attended a workshop with NLC, Business Gateway and business owners who talked to us about setting up and running your own business.  At the end of the workshop we had to come up with a business idea.

We came up with the idea of #Little Bag of Hope which is a rucksack containing the essentials a homeless person requires to survive the winter on the streets of Glasgow.  The products contained in the bag will be sponsored by well-known companies or donated by members up the public and they will be distributed by homeless charities.  There will also be “filling stations” throughout Glasgow for homeless people to get refills for the rucksacks once their original supplies run out.

On the day of the final we had to present our ideas to an audience made up of teachers, North Lanarkshire Council representatives, business owners and Business Gateway.

We couldn’t believe it when our names were called out as the winners!  It was a lot of hard but we all agree that it was worth it – not just for the prize we received, but also the problem solving, enterprising and presentation skills we gained through the whole process.”

Lucy McNee, Maria Roos & Erin O’Brien