- IT for small companies session / enterprise activities
- Short course of web design for small companies
- Debate on current issues e.g. recession/ global warming
- Look at how school can reduce carbon emissions
- Recycling project/scheme monitoring school’s waste & developing solutions to reduce it
- Community work raising money
- Visit local business/ employers/ Trip to see latest product being designed
- Product Development day – covering research, design, marketing & sales
- Chance to run a business for a day
- Cakes & biscuits sale
- Debate- how local businesses have coped with the recession
- Public service event/ voluntary work/ Community work e.g. tidying up local playground or garden of nursing home– raise money e.g. Bring & Buy sale/ sponsored car wash/ Fun Day/ Bag packing event at different supermarkets on a rota system
- Sporting event where year groups compete with prize
- Business enterprise Day – design own products and talk from local businesses on how to market them and then try it/ £5 Businesses Challenge – biggest profit wins
- Work in groups around idea to benefit youth in the area – winning idea implemented with help of business
- Make a movie of a few mins – best used to promote school
- Strengthen links with businesses to promote careers fair
- Talk by visiting business/ career opportunities & presentations by emergency services, food retailers, car manufacturers & IT
- Charity fundraiser – students choose charity. Bring & Buy Sale open to general public/ sponsored run or walk
- On-line Virtual Business Challenge (like fantasy football)
- Dragons Den event to panel of businesses
- Creative event resulting in newspaper article
- Stalls involving businesses linked to PTA Annual summer fair / Fun Day with stalls, raffles & tournaments. Public asked to bring along unwanted gifts & mobile phones
- Careers Fair with local employers
- Talent Show- open auditions which people pay to enter competing for large prize
- Meet Employers/ Businesses Day
