Personal Success Skills

EnvironmentalSustainability

Entrepreneurship

North West Student Enterprise ConferenceProblems:• Instability of global markets • Increasing unemployment rate among graduates• Graduates leaving University without enterprise skills that employers are looking for Response:We inspired students to be entrepreneurial and improve their skills throughthe stories of local businesses, workshops and a successful millionaire. TTo encourage the use of public transport we ran a compe on to win prizes.Results:• Impacted 60 parcipants• 80% aendees agreed that the conference was beneficia• 40% of parcipants used public transportFuture:WWe are going to make it an annual event and cooperate withsociees from other Universies to share our experiences andknowledge with them.

Saint Sebasan’s Community Centre

Market Economics

Personal Success Skills

EnvironmentalSustainability

Entrepreneurship

Problems:• Financial difficules (£30.000 in debt) • Lack of sustainable strategy & markeng• Poor ulizaon of available faciliesResponse:Consultaons with the Community Hub Manager led to the creaon of the centre’s sustainable and markeng strategy, which is curwhich is currently being implemented.Results:• The number of visitors increased by 60%• Increase from 2 to 10 volunteers• Introducon of management and markeng tools helped the centre to run smoothly and successfullyFuture:The pThe project is scheduled to finish in November 2011, aer that visits to audit the performance will take place every year

Personal Success Skills

EnvironmentalSustainability

Entrepreneurship

Business GameProblems:• Lack of negoaons and strategic aspects in the game • 43 hours preparaon me for each gameResponse:Our team worked closely with inventors and organisers to find the best soluons to improve the game and events.RResults:• Events number increased by 200%• Preparaon me reduced by 93%• Students impacted 344Future:Our team became a reliable partner for Salford BusinessSchool and is going to facilitate more games in the future.The The game and events are a fantasc opportunity for our team members to bond.

Personal Success Skills

FinancialLiteracy

FLiP (Financial Literacy Project)Problems:• Poor level of financial literacy among kids, youngsters and adults •Credit crunch affecng the spending and saving culture. Response:The team idenfied three groups with different problems, which need appropriateapproach and tools.FLiP Kids (6-11 FLiP Kids (6-11 years) to change saving cultureFLiP Teens (12-17 years) to change spending cultureFLiP Pro (18-25) to teach about money&finance managementResults:• Prepared story and piggy banks for FLiP Kids• Established partnerships with 3 primary schoolsFuture: The team is ready to go schools and transfer the knthe knowledge through the games and materials prepared this year. Further the FLiP Champions will be trained and provided with teaching materials.

Freebies for Businesses

BusinessEthics

BusinessEthics

Problems:• High street soware for SME’s is too expensive • Unethical use of unlicensed soware• Lack of awaraness regarding Business Ethics in the companiesResponse:The ‘Freebies for Business’ project has been prepared to educate and inform local companies about business ethics focusing on the issue of using unlicensed sosoware. The team aims to show these companies alternaves and potenal profits from using them.Results:• Established network of 19 companies• Workshop materials preparedFuture:The team is going to work closely with selected local ccompanies to help them implement freeware. Addionally,workshops will be provided for new business start ups (from the FlyingStart Programme) and students.

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