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Borders students reach award final

Enterprising Berwick students who have set up a business that creates bespoke hand painted canvas prints have made the final of a business competition.

Students from Longridge Towers School in Berwick upon Tweed have set up Tower & Co’, a Young Enterprise North East company, which has been selected to receive business-mentoring advice from directors at Tyneside architectural firm Space Group.

Directors at Space Group attended YENE’s annual trade fair at Gateshead’s MetroCentre recently and selected three companies to participate in its ‘Young Dragon’s Den’ programme – part of its charitable foundation.

The other two companies, who were among 44 other student businesses to enter, are ‘Elftopia’ from, Prior Pursglove College in Guisborough, which has created a children’s board game designed to encourage a healthy lifestyle and ‘Edit’ – a company set up by students from The King’s Academy in Middlesbrough, selling personalised clothing and mouse mats.

Space Group chief executive Rob Charlton said: “Space Group is delighted to be hosting the Young Dragon’s Den programme for the third year running as we find it so rewarding. Last year we even managed to pick the actual Young Enterprise North East regional winner as our top company, which was a business that designed a sex education pack.

“Each year that we go to the YENE Trade Fair we look for potential and enthusiasm as well as a creative spark and true entrepreneurship, which really shone through from each of this year’s chosen finalists.”

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