Youth Enterprise and Micro-Biz Newsletter 2022 Edition 4

YOUTH ENTERPRISE & MICROBUSINESS NEWSLETTER EDITION 4 - 2022

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Hull backs national project to support Ukrainian women entrepreneurs

Last month 200 countries gathered in Riyadh for the first Global Entrepreneurship Congress since before the pandemic. At this event Ukrainian colleague Anna Petrova, who had fled Kiev and made it to Riyadh, was welcomed by a standing ovation by all present. That extraordinary human moment was a tipping point for the establishment of Restart Ukraine.

GEN UK, (the organisation that leads Global Entrepreneurship Week) plans to create a support programme for Ukrainian women entrepreneurs who would like to relocate and rebuild their businesses in the UK. Since the congress, Anna has introduced GEN UK to ten women entrepreneurs from Kiev and other cities, who have built businesses in Ukraine and who see the UK as a safe home for their businesses to recover and grow and GEN UK have set up an initiative to be called Restart Ukraine.

Charles Cracknell, Youth Enterprise Manager Hull City Council, said: “The JCYEB are sponsoring the project and the Youth Enterprise Team at Hull City Council are ready to help any young Ukrainian who wishes to set up in business in Hull and will link up any young women with this great initiative established by GEN UK Chair, Marc Ortmans, who is also a Vice President of the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank."

Marc Ortmans, Chair of GEN UK said: "I wish to thank Hull City Council and the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank for supporting Restart Ukraine. The women joining our programme will be invited to join our online community, the GEN UK HUB, providing immediate access to a network and a place where they can start to create a profile for their businesses and where we can learn about their needs. Once they receive their visa and are able to travel to the UK, we will then assist them on the ground and we know that Hull is willing to be part of this support.“ If you or your organisation would like to support financially or in kind, GEN UK would love to hear from you.

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Winners of Neuro Diversity Image Competition.

The Top 5 entries of the Hull 2022 Neuro Diversity Image Competition that were selected by a panel of Cllr Lynn Petrini, Lord Mayor of Hull, Graham Petrini, Lord Mayor Consort, Councillors Aneesa Akbar and John Fareham and Sue Pleasance of HC&L, alongside young person judge Luke Garner, are each to receive £75.00 each for their entries, from John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank.

The winners are young entrepreneur Georgia Wormald, and young people from St Mary's College, Chiltern Primary, Northcott School and Oakfield School.

These images will be displayed in the Ferens Art Gallery and the artists will have afternoon tea with the Lord Mayor. Hall Road Academy, Wilberforce College, Estcourt Primary, Hedon Inmans Primary and CASE all received a special grant to promote Neurodiversity Week 2022.

Tony Robinson OBE, Patron of the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank said: "As someone with dyspraxia myself, I was delighted that the JCYEB was able to sponsor the Neuro Diversity Image Competition and it was great to see that, as there were so many excellent entries, we decided to give extra prize money. Over 20% of business owners in the UK and 30% of those in America, consider themselves to be neurodivergent and I am highly confident that many of those who are, have entered this competition and will go on to own their own business. Congratulations to all the entrants, as they are all winners."

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Mental Well Being Booklet!

In recent times young entrepreneurs have faced the most uncertain of times and coming out of that uncertainty with motivation and good mental wellbeing may be much to ask for many, especially those from our #ExcludedUK communities.

In order to support young entrepreneurs with their wellbeing Hull City Council inspired by Lucy Beaumont, Hull born actress and comedian, as well as one of the Vice Presidents of John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank, in partnership with Inspire Ignite have produced a Mental Health Well Being handbook to support young entrepreneurs to find focus and nurture their potential.

Charles Cracknell Youth Enterprise Manager said: "I wish to put on record my thanks to Hannah and Sue of Inspire Ignite, along with Georgia, James and Sammy, our Youth Enterprise Champions for developing this important guide as part of our #FutureYou Campaign. I hope that all those who use this invaluable guide to Mental Well Being, value its content and realise that there are people always willing to support them if and when they need it. After all, business owners know more than most, the importance of communication and working together."

YOUTH ENTERPRISE & MICROBUSINESS NEWSLETTER EDITION 4 - 2022

In The Spotlight…

Beautilocks and Creations Galore Sammy Gibson Not content with running one business, Sammy Gibson runs two! The married mother of two, is a qualified hair stylist, who was working one day a week at a salon before Covid struck. She joined MC4C to learn how to set up in business on her own, making a variety of gift items – in fact, so many that she called the business “Creations Galore”. Sammy attended all MC4C sessions, even on occasions nursing a poorly child on her knee while working on her business plan via Zoom with Graham. One option that was included in the plan, was the possibility of returning to some limited salon work.

Then came the opportunity to rent salon premises of her own. Linking up with a friend, Sammy opened “Beautilocks” at the end of last year in an independentliving residential home. And business is good, even though it’s been a tough journey since the total lockdown caused by the pandemic. As she says, “With it being independent living, there’s a lot of elderly, vulnerable residents and we’ve got to make sure we’re keeping everything clean and sterilised and that we’re protecting ourselves as well as others”.

Sammy has recently been appointed one of four Youth Enterprise Ambassadors, spreading the word about MC4C’s Youth Enterprise work and hopefully encouraging others to join. “I found out about MC4C through word of mouth”, says Sammy, “they helped me and encouraged me to put in the work – you won’t get anywhere if you don’t put in hard work. I did and look at me. I’ve got my own salon!”

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John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank Grants

We were in some pretty impressive company for the April meeting of the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank. There were Youth Bank Vice Presidents, Frank Wyatt and Johanna Cloete, representatives of key business organisations in Australia and Namibia respectively and businessman Yuguo Liu and Professor of Creative Entrepreneurship, Andy Penaluna, as well as Chair of Yorkshire in Business, Tony Robinson OBE and Marc Ortmans, Chair and Co-Founder of Entrepreneurship Network GEN UK. Not to mention distinguished representatives of local business and education organisations and initiatives. Esteemed company in which to consider two applications from young people currently on the Making Changes for Careers programme.

Alistair and James have set up Hullminiverse, producing wargaming “minis” - models and other products using 3-D printing technology. Alistair, with a degree in Computer Science and James with knowledge and experience of the worlds of art, photography and graphic design, are in a great position to make a real success of business in this rapidly growing market.

Meanwhile, Kyle is going freelance in the world of management consultancy – a sector in which he already has experience. He worked through the ranks at Wok & Go, going from worker to leader and receiving high praise from those he helped. Now he’s worked with MC4C to develop his own business, delivering advice and guidance to management and business.

All three have done detailed work, meeting with their business advisor, Graham, who delivered their business plans to the panel. All were well received and we’re sure these new Microbiz start-ups will go on to achieve great things.

YOUTH ENTERPRISE & MICROBUSINESS NEWSLETTER EDITION 4 - 2022

Judith’s Journey

End of a chapter!

This will be my last article as a Youth Enterprise Champion. I’m really grateful for the support I have received on my journey to becoming my own boss. I hope in the future I continue to build connections and continue to receive support from everyone to make my business a success.

It has been incredible taking you along on this journey with me through the highs and the lows, I truly appreciate all the support and encouragement you have given me throughout my journey.

There’s a property I’m hoping to rent soon. Dealing with the paperwork has taken longer than expected, however things are slowly moving forward. I’m looking forward to being up and running in the coming months. Keep an eye out for Everything Toastie. I will continue working with the Mc4c team as a Youth Enterprise Advisor, I hope to still share my business journey.

In The Spotlight…

Sasha Scarah

Sasha started her journey with MC4C in 2020 however because of the pandemic, face to face sessions were not permitted and virtual Zoom sessions were in place but due to not having internet in her home or IT equipment to join Zoom successfully, this became a huge struggle for Sasha, and she therefore became disengaged with our support.

Nevertheless, she did return in February 2022 to help her move forward and came back with a fresh outlook and drive to get further information and advice about future steps that her own business of educating others on reptiles would look like. Sasha understood this would require further financial help due to her not having the reptiles which made her more determined to then find employment and with the support from DWP and MC4C she was offered work in the Deep café helping customers with their nutritional needs and serving all visitors of the aquarium.