College opens Enterprise Gateway

Students in the city will now be able to build businesses while they study at a new Enterprise Gateway at Sheffield College.

 

The new resource was opened during national Enterprise Week by David Grey of BiG - Make it Your Business and Julie Byrne, Director of Castle College.  Student body painters and students who have created their own businesses at the College also attended.

 

The Enterprise Gateway has been opened to boost enterprise in young people and includes a new boardroom, a new office, projector screens and new computers.  The college has also been working with BiG throughout the summer on enterprise work with students and at the launch David Grey gave advice to a team of students who have created a T-shirt printing company.

 

David Grey, Managing Director of OSL Group Holdings Ltd and Chair of BiG said: “We need to expose young people to enterprise.  This is not simply a case of more work experience or business studies.  Enterprise is already on the curriculum.  The critical question is how do you make money doing it?  We want young people to leave school thinking ‘I want to be in business’.  It’s our responsibility to strengthen the enterprise and entrepreneurial skills and raise the aspirations of young people so that they are better equipped, later in life, to start their own business.”

 

“We all have a role to play in developing entrepreneurship in the younger generation and the Enterprise Gateway is a very welcome initiative in Sheffield.  Through a series of exciting learning experiences and activities the Enterprise Gateway will help young people develop business capability and entrepreneurial instincts.”

 

Julie Byrne said: “Sheffield College is fully committed to the enterprise agenda and we have had many success stories already. The new enterprise gateway provides us with vital resources to build on this work and further develop enterprise in our students.”

 

The launch was followed by a charity dinner organised by students as part of their College enterprise work.