Chamber Service: Education
School Name: Baxter College Young Chamber
Title: Baxter College’s Young Chamber Council
Date: September 2009
The Young Chamber scheme gives students the opportunity to voice their opinions, participate in enterprise activities and gain experience in and a knowledge of the world of work.
As the academic year drew to a close the Young Chamber councils at schools across Herefordshire and Worcestershire were working hard to complete projects and host events.
Baxter College’s Young Chamber Council discovered that their application to Funding for Lots of Stuff! (FLOSS) to support their community radio project had been succesful and were to be awarded £2000. FLOSS is different to other funding because it is ‘money for young people’ and it is young people who are in charge of coming up with ideas for how this is spent and it is young people who make all the decisions. The students have now worked to produce their first ‘Purple FM‘ podcast.
Chamber Service: Education
School Name: Baxter College Young Chamber
Title: Baxter Young Chamber students go to University
Date: May 2009
The
University of Worcester is part of a national network of universities
that run The Student Placements for Entrepreneurs in Education (SPEED)
and Enterprise Fellowship Scheme (EFS). They aim to encourage and
support young entrepreneurs to develop their own businesses.
Eight
pupils from Baxter College’s Young Chamber council visited the
University of Worcester to meet with entrepreneurs who have set up their
own businesses. The day was hosted by Andrew Corcoran, Knowledge
Transfer Manager of the University of Worcester, and aimed to provide
both the school and university students the opportunity to network and
discuss their business ideas and experiences.
The student entrepreneurs were certainly impressed by the Young Chamber students, stating that:
“The Young Chamber members’ enthusiasm was infectious and I hope they
gained some useful pointers when talking through my business ideas.”
John Pearson, Pearini Design and Illustration.
"Speaking
with the Young Chamber members was very inspirational as they were full
of enthusiasm as well as happy to learn and get advice from the
SPEED/EFS members." John Bajowa, Airlevator Magazine.
“During
my conversations with the Young Chamber members I was really impressed
by their inquisitive and adult approach to the business world.” Noel
Vance, DeutscheParts.