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Initiative to promote the value of enterprise
A NEW initiative to promote business and enterprise values across the region's schools will be launched at a conference in Huntingdon next month.
A NEW initiative to promote business and enterprise values across the region's schools will be launched at a conference in Huntingdon next month.The Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Enterprise Learning Partnership 5-19 is co-ordinated by Ian Simmons, director of enterprise at Linton Village College, in Linton, Cambridge, a specialist business and enterprise college.
Partners in the project include Ely College, Ken Stimpson Community College in Peterborough, Longsands College and Roundhouse Community Primary School in St Neots, Granta Special School in Linton and Katie Hart of Rhetonic, which provides innovative psychological marketing solutions.
The launch event will take place at Cambridge Golf & Conference Centre, Hemingford Abbots, on Friday, February 5.
The keynote speaker will be Max McMurdo, founder and managing director of Reestore, the contemporary eco-furniture company as featured on the BBC's Dragons' Den. Reestore takes everyday waste objects, such as shopping trolleys and bath tubs, and turns them into cheeky, stylish pieces of household furnitures.
The company's philosophy of creativity, innovation, eco-awareness and fun makes Reestore a perfect partner for the Enterprise Learning Partnership, whose vision is to promote enterprise values to all learners across the region and to promote creativity, innovation and problem-solving in education.
Commenting on the launch of the partnership, Caroline Derbyshire, principal of LVC, said: "All children can be enterprising and in a fast-changing world it is our duty to teach them to be so."
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