Inspiration from Gazelle
Graduate Wins Second Place
in Pitch2Win Competition
City College Plymouth graduate,
Laura Taylor, secured second place in the national Pitch2Win competition. It was set up by Dulux Decorator Centre to encourage and support entrepreneurship in the painting and decorating industry.
Having successfully made it through the initial shortlisting process, Laura, 21, impressed a panel of industry experts with her business pitch at the ‘Dragons’ Den’-inspired final. The competition has helped narrow the gap between education and industry in practice, building on partnerships with colleges across the UK.
Have you
investigated the national competitons and enterprising experiences available to your learners through Gazelle or anywhere else?
Serign Makes It To Downing Street!
Serign Sanneh, a prodigious young
entrepreneur and graduate of the Peter
Jones Enterprise Academy at Glasgow
Kelvin College, was delighted to be
selected, along with a handful of
other successful and impressive
young entrepreneurs, to attend a
recent session at Downing Street
with the Prime Minister’s Enterprise
Adviser, Daniel Korski. Through the
PJEA and then Entrepreneurial Spark
(part of the Gazelle programme),
Serign, from Glasgow’s East End, has
worked hard to set up his own online
business supplying Afro-Caribbean
goods. Serign is pictured here
supporting a group of students at a recent Market Maker ideas session.
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