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Edgeley Park Study Centre in partnership with the Local Authority's Extended Schools team is offering twelve luck Key Stage 3 students, from eight Stockport Secondary Schools the opportunity to take part in an innovative project, based around developing Business Enterprise. The Study Centres fantastic media facilities, along with the new uBizEE print shop will be used to inspire the students to create a product for a virtual business.
 The students will be set an "Apprentice" Style task by on of the Business Mentors, from the Stockport County 100 club. They will then set about putting together a business plan, which will look at market research, costings, advertising and finally the marketing of a virtual product. The students will continue to develop thier business skills back at school and each participating school will receive a £500 grant from the local Authority.
The finale to the project will be an "Apprentice" style visioning evening held at Stockport County Football club where each school will have a trade stand, which will be visited by Business mentors and parents.
Three members from each school will present their vision for a virtual business and battle it out to become Stockport Secondary Schools Young Entrepreneurs of the Year 2009.
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At the age of 19, Scottish Entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne was dishonorably discharged from the Royal Navy and spent the next 10 years moving from one job to the next, with very little success, By the age of 30, and by his own admission, he had "... no money"