Dorset's young entrepeneurs recognised in Echo-backed Enterprise Challenge (From Bournemouth Echo)

Dorset's young entrepeneurs recognised in Echo-backed Enterprise Challenge

7:00pm Friday 12th February 2010 in

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Budding entrepreneurs have been recognised in the Daily Echo backed Enterprise Challenge 2010 organised by Enterprise & Skills Company in Wimborne and sponsored by Bournemouth University.

Eight teams from three schools in Dorset participated with each setting up a business. They were mentored by local businesses including Handelsbanken, the bank in Bournemouth, Humphries Kirk, the Dorset solicitors and Dek, the engineering firm in Weymouth.

All generated a profit by selling their products at local trade fairs.

The businesses were: Hurrikane and Zest from Parkstone Grammar School, On the Cusp, Carosel, Reciprocal and Wavelength all from Bournemouth School for Girls and Pure Innovation and Next Dekade from Corfe Hills School.

Reciprocal, which sold keyrings and air horns recorded the highest profit of £782 followed by Wavelength, which offered face painting and soap, making £516 profit.

Award winners:

Best Company Report sponsored by the Daily Echo, Next Dekade; Dorset Business Award, sponsored by Dorset Business, Pure Innovation, which also received the Innovation Award; IT Award, Wavelength; Sales and Marketing Award, Hurrikane; Finance Award, Reciprocal, which was also awarded Best Trade Stand Team; Commitment Award, Carosel; Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Gemma Swansbury from Zest, which also won Company of the Year 2010; Leadership Award, Emma Hughes from Wavelength; Student of the Year Award was presented to Alex Thompson from On the Cusp.