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Nearly 300 Nottinghamshire students have this week taken up Peter Jones’ challenge of turning £10 into a projected £4,267 in just one month with their own community-minded, enterprising ideas, as part of Enterprise UK’s Make Your Mark with a Tenner campaign.
A £10 note will be given today to each of the young people aged [...]

LAST CHANCE FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES ACROSS DERBYSHIRE TO ENTER MAKE YOUR MARK WITH A TENNER – £200,000 TENNER BANK AVAILABLE NOW!
Peter Jones, star of TV’s Dragon’s Den, and Chairman of business-led enterprise campaign Enterprise UK, today invited young people from Derbyshire to enter Make Your Mark with a Tenner.  Now in its third year, [...]

Budding entrepreneurs from across Leicestershire are being given the chance to win six month’s rent-free trading space in their local market, as part of the annual Make Your Mark in the Markets competition, run by Enterprise UK.
Now in its second year, the competition aims to provide fledgling traders with first hand experience of the markets [...]

A helicopter ride, ballroom dancing and playing cricket are just some of the dreams coming true for care home residents in Lincolnshire, thanks to a new ‘Wish Tree’ fund.
Set up by the Lincolnshire county team of The Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJCT) in 2009, the UK’s second largest not for profit care home [...]

HRH The Duke of Gloucester officially opened Chestnut Court, the new £6 million state of the art care home, operated by The Orders of St John Care Trust’s (OSJCT) in Quedgeley, on Tuesday 16 February 2010.
Chestnut Court is run by The Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJCT) in partnership with Gloucestershire County [...]

Entrepreneurs appear in popular media as much as in business journals these days, from Alan Sugar to Peter Jones, so it’s easy to assume that enterprise activity is readily understood and accessible to all.  But is it?  Or should it be?
The ‘Enterprise For All?’ conference will address the ‘golden thread of enterprise’ on Friday 31 [...]

Students from the East Midlands have been fueling the future of sustainable technologies through a new scheme, funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering through the Ingenious Grant Scheme.
Crown Hills Community College in Leicester and Rawlins Community College in Loughborough, along with Cheltenham College, took part in the ‘Enterprising Engineering for a Greener Future’ project, [...]

A slime workshop, the science behind chocolate and a chance to come face-to-face with creepy crawlies will all feature at Nottingham’s first ever science festival on 19 and 20 March at Wollaton Hall.
Taking place during the East Midlands Innovation Festival (iFestival), the Nottingham Science Festival aims to encourage budding scientists to discover the wonders of [...]

East Midlands’ small businesses, start ups and budding entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their business ideas to win a bespoke package of innovation support at this year’s iFestival innovation EXPO (iEXPO).
The Last Business Standing competition takes place during the iEXPO on Tuesday 12 March at Athena in Leicester, as part of the annual innovation [...]

The organisers of this year’s East Midlands innovation Festival (iFestival) have announced that economic development company, Prospect Leicestershire, is to support the programme’s first high profile event – the innovation EXPO (iEXPO).
East Midlands Development Agency (emda) and East Midlands Innovation (the region’s Innovation Council) have partnered with Prospect Leicestershire to stage the event on 12th [...]