Young Enterprise in Aylesbury Vale

I rate Young Enterprise. Its motto is Learning by Doing and what it does each year is to organise a business competition for school students. Each group  forms and runs a small limited company, working  out the business plan, marketing and selling a product or service and keeping track of the cash! Local business men and women act as advisers but the decisions are taken by the student directors themselves. At their fair in Friars Square on Saturday, there was a wide range of goods and services on offer – from kitchen energy-saving devices to beanie bags to wooden ornaments to a revision management CD (software written by the students) to jewellery to anti-pong mats for the bottom of wheelie bins to energy bars and drinks to suit either the fitness fanatic or the stressed executive (or MP!). I made a point of asking each of the teams what they had learned most from the experience....