Schools to boost hospice funds with enterprising skills
Teams of Year 10 students from across Nuneaton and North Warwickshire will be pitting their wits against each other and using their enterprise skills in order to turn a £50 float into the maximum amount possible for the Mary Ann Evans Hospice.
Jaguar has donated £50 to each school as a ‘start up’ fund and the school teams have 12 weeks to turn this initial float into as much money as possible to help the hospice with its running costs.
The students will have to use their skills of innovation and creativity, financial capability and business and economic understanding to come up with an enterprising business within school.
The Jaguar Enterprise Challenge is being launched tomorrow as part of Enterprise Week when schools and colleges all over the country will be undertaking various enterprise activities.
The challenge is being run jointly by Janet Griffin, Fundraising Manager at the Hospice and Gail Wright, Northern Area Manager for the Warwickshire Education Business Partnership. They will travel together with April Wickens from Jaguar to each participating school tomorrow to launch the challenge and hand over the £50 starting fund.
The schools taking part are George Eliot School in Nuneaton, Manor Park School in Nuneaton and Polesworth International Language College.
The teams will be asked to present their ideas at a presentation evening in March 2008, when a winning team will be announced and awarded with a prize and the hospice should receive significant funds in order to continue their worthwhile work.
The event has been co-ordinated by the Warwickshire Education Business Partnership, working as part of Warwickshire County Council with businesses and schools to help address the constant demand from employers for school leavers to be ‘work ready’.
The independent hospice was established to provide day care and Hospice at Home to the residents of Nuneaton and across north Warwickshire. It costs thousands of pounds to run the hospice every year and the amount needed continues to rise as their services expand and develop.