Who the Award is for

We are looking for:-

• Entrepreneurs, businessmen and women, inventors and innovators who give their time and, possibly financial support, to other potential entrepreneurs whether or not they are still in education or at the business start-up/growth stage.
• Those in education, training and youth work who are providing people of all ages, particularly the young, with enterprise skills and attitudes.
• Those involved in social enterprise who achieve business outcomes or equip others with business skills.

(A social enterprise is a business with primarily business objectives whose surpluses are principally re-invested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners).

This list illustrates the types of activity nominees might have undertaken. It is not intended to be exhaustive and may be amended over time.

• Offering a role model and/or business model to motivate people to engage in enterprise and promoting these models eg through mentoring.
   
• Using innovative ways to increase the understanding of business skills and processes in particular communities, for example students or schoolchildren, or among those who influence individuals' career choices.
   
• Mentoring and/or offering financial support to start up and/or develop businesses or providing ways to develop specific skills, which can be used to start a business.
   
• Developing ways in which to explain the risks of business enterprise and promoting the development of enterprise and risk management skills.
   
• Working to help innovators and inventors to bring ideas to business fruition.
   
• Promoting business enterprise in disadvantaged communities, possibly but not necessarily, through the medium of social enterprise, and/or working to change the perception that deprived areas are not places where businesses can be established and run successfully.