Young Enterprise Scotland
A registered Charity in Scotland, with limited liability, we have operated throughout Scotland for over 30 years.
During this time we have worked with schools, educationalists and business volunteers to deliver practical learning programmes designed to provide young people with a real-life experience of the world of business, employment and economics.
Vision
Once known for operating a single programme the Company Programme with associated activities, we have substantially changed over the past three years, complementing the Scottish Executive's major initiative relating to Enterprise in Education. Our vision is to enable all young people in Scotland access to this valuable learning experience preparing them for their future participation in the labour market and as inclusive citizens.
Programmes
We have dramatically widened our portfolio of programmes and can now be considered an umbrella type organisation working with all students including those who are disengaged with school and those who are not achieving their full potential. We are also operating outwith the standard school environment particularly in Young Offenders Institution and secure residential establishments.
In the 2004/05 academic year we engaged with over 27,000 young people providing 355,314 hours of contact time. We are currently working to extend this further to engage young people, especially those marginalised through lack of engagement and attainment with their schooling, to support them in progressing to further education, training or employment.
What is Young Enterprise?
Throughout your life at School, College or University you are constantly making decisions and choices that will affect your future - forming friendships, deciding which subjects to take, choosing whether to work hard at your studies, deciding whether to get involved in school groups and extra-curricular activities. And you never know when one of these decisions will change your life. Well here comes another one...
Ask yourself: How prepared are you for the future?
Hopefully you will gain the qualifications you need to embark on the career of your choice, but will you have the business skills necessary to make your career a success, or will you have the extra edge that will get you your dream job? Perhaps you would like to have a go at setting up your own business, but do you know where to start?
This is where Young Enterprise comes in.
Young Enterprise is a UK registered charity on a mission to "inspire and equip young people to learn and succeed through enterprise". Each year, 291,000 young people like you get a head start on their working lives while they are still at school or university. They do this by taking part in a Young Enterprise programme where they gain knowledge and skills for business and enterprise either through a series of workshops and seminars or through setting up and running their own real company.
At Young Enterprise we believe that learning should be fun, exciting and hands-on, and we run our range of programmes on a learning-by-doing principle. Whether that means you get to set up and run your own business or you get to meet and learn from real entrepreneurs and business people, either way there is a Young Enterprise programme for every stage of your time in education.
Find Out More
To find out more about Young Enterprise Scotland, please click here.