... the most exciting initiative in Enterprise Eduction we have seen for some time and I would recommend it to any school that wants to provide young people with real life business skills.

The run up to the summer holidays was a busy time for our installation team, with four new uBizEE companies setting up in schools across the North in May, June and July.

Airedale High School is an 11-16 school with Arts College Specialist School status.  Situated three miles from Castleford, the College became the first in the area to invest in a uBizEE Print Centre back in May. A group of budding entrepreneurs, with the help of uBizEE staff prepared a spectacular business plan presentation to the Head Teacher and Board of Governors to gain the funding for the centre. They were able to present full justification of the costs and indications of how their business would pay the school back. This small group of committed students found the first few weeks in business to be a steep learning curve. They very quickly began to focus on the more profitable products, and have now expanded the personnel within their business in order to draw on additional skills within their year group. With their continued commitment and newly honed organisation skills they promise great things for the new academic year and we wish them well.