Stimulating Youth Entrepreneurship (SYE)

Schools play an important role in developing life long skills and the future of young people. We partner with schools to introduce and create an awareness of enterprise and entrepreneurship by providing resources and training that will engage students/pupils and challenge their attitudes, ideas and perceptions about business.

Objectives of SYE are to;

Promote a culture of enterprise and entrepreneurship as a viable career option.
Develop Enterprise in the heart of the Community.
Inspire and equip young people in the local community and particularly BME groups to learn and succeed through enterprise.
Stimulate entrepreneurial thinking amongst young people.
Help young people become enterprising – help them establish business and social enterprises in the community.
Help unemployment youth locate formal sector employment.

Local Enterprise Growth Initiative (LEGI)

Barking & Dagenham Partnership was awarded £15.5m over 3 years under LEGI, a Government programme to boost business and enterprise in deprived areas. In partnership with WOI, Soar Ahead has been commissioned by Barking & Dagenham Enterprise to deliver enterprise awareness workshops and support. The workshops will run till March 2009.

Delivery of Outreach & Enterprise Support on LEGI

Soar Ahead continues to deliver on the outreach and enterprise support which includes outreach activities to community groups, women networks, local centres, faith based communities, youth centres and local individuals. We focus on additional interventions relevant to enterprise and business start-up, delivery of enterprise awareness workshops focusing on generating business ideas, opportunities, enterprise training and basic business planning training and processes. A key output is to sign-post beneficiaries to other relevant business routes such as franchising, mentoring, social enterprise, enterprise cells, chamber of commerce and other mainstream business agencies.

Young Enterprise Ambassadors (YEAs)

The Youth Enterprise Programme will introduce young role models that will encourage other young people to take up life skills or enterprise start-ups. The scheme will work with partners and local youth organisations with the aim of encouraging under-represented groups to take up learning skills, return to education or start a business as a way of gaining employment. YEAs will themselves be young volunteers recruited from schools and local youth clubs etc to inspire and excite young people about enterprise and the importance of obtaining life skills.

Introduction to Enterprise Education: Training Modules

The Centre for Youth Enterprise Development offers a series of 1-hour training modules and micro teaching practice sessions as an introduction to Enterprise. This is done on a rolling programme basis to allow participants to join at any time. Topics covered in each session are;

Module	Module Description
1	What is Enterprise?
2	Why Entrepreneurship?
3	Who are Entrepreneurs?
4	How do I become an entrepreneur?
5	How do I find a good business idea?
6	How do I organise an enterprise?
7	How do I operate the enterprise?
8	What are the next steps to become an entrepreneur?
9	Team Work – Understand that success in today’s competitive business world is about working together.
10	Time Management – Business is about meeting deadlines
11	Structured Analysis and Techniques used regularly in business
12	Creative thinking – Critical in keeping ahead of the competition
13	Analysis of the external competitive environment
14	Marketing analysis
15	Business Planning
16	Business Development and Growth Strategies