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Five-star boost for winner

Five North East businesses celebrating their fifth year in business have come together to donate their services to this year’s winning Young Enterprise North East (YENE) start up company.

A ‘five to keep your business alive’ business start-up support package will be provided by five local businesses to help kick-start the winning company at the YENE regional final.

The prize package includes, free accountancy support from North Shields-based Blu sky chartered accountants, green office supplies from Ethicalsuperstore.com based in Gateshead, PR and marketing support from Newcastle’s O Communications, an IT start-up package from Darlington-based Resilient Business Systems and a telecoms package free for a year from Eclipse Networks in Gateshead.

Each year YENE has a regional final award ceremony whereby students who have set up their own company as part of the school Young Enterprise Company Programme battle it out to become ‘Company of the Year’.

This year the winning student company will not only go on to represent the region at the National Final in London but will also be awarded with the ‘five to keep your business alive’ business support package to help them turn the business into a real trading company.

YENE chief executive Catherine Marchant said: “This year the winning team will win the ‘five things you need to have to get your business started’ package from the five local companies that have kindly donated their services to help the student company get up on its feet.

“We decided to form the start up package and give this as an additional prize to the winning Company Programme business as, in the past, these companies have found it difficult to turn their school-based business into a reality.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .