EXTREME ENTERPRISES OPENS ITS DOORS FOR BUSINESS!

EXTREME ENTERPRISES, A COMPANY FROM THE YOUNG ENTERPRISE SCHEME, HAS DECIDED TO SELL SPINZZ AND NAWAKA BANGS

-- Local students from Hilbre High School have recently launched their own company under the Young Enterprise Company Programme. The company, which the students have named 'eXtreme enterprises, will now manufacture and market 'Spinzz from now until the end of the academic year, when the programme ends.

Extreme Enterprises Young Enterprise Company involves 18 students, aged between 16 and 17. In the Company Programme students known as Achievers" set up and run their own company over the course of one academic year. They elect a board of directors from amongst their peers, raise share capital, and market and finance a product or service of their own choice. At the end of the year they liquidate the company and present a report and accounts. Formal recognition of the skills and abilities developed through the Company Programme is offered via the Young Enterprise Examination, which all Company Programme participants are invited to sit.
Extreme Enterprises is supported by Geoff Walker, Mark Farrar, Sharif Wall and John Plughs who act(s) as adviser(s) to the company. Geoff Walker commented, This is an excellent opportunity for the students to learn about business and broaden their skills within a real working environment. The challenges ahead are both exciting and, above all, fun."

Young Enterprise is a national education charity founded in 1963 to forge links between schools and industry. Its mission is to inspire and equip young people to learn and succeed through enterprise. Young Enterprise operates a number of programmes for young people on a learning-by-doing principle. These include running a real company in Company Programme, Team Programme and Graduate Programme; and learning about aspects of business from the first hand experiences of volunteers in Project Business and Entrepreneurship Master class. In 1999/2000 over 70,000 students, aged between 14 and 19+ participated in Young Enterprise programmes across the UK. They were guided, encouraged and taught by more than 9,000 volunteer advisers from local and national business.