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You are here: Home > News > Ladybridge High School win the North West Enterprise Challenge Regional Final!

Ladybridge High School win the North West Enterprise Challenge Regional Final!

20 March, 2018 Leave a Comment

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A young team of aspiring entrepreneurs from Ladybridge High School in Bolton have won the North West Regional Final of the 2018 Mosaic Enterprise Challenge competition, hosted at KPMG Manchester.

Mosaic North West Regional Final Champions!

Mosaic North West Regional Final Champions from Ladybridge High School with the judging panel and keynote speaker, Laurence Marlor!

Having beaten others within their region and other finalist teams from North Chadderton School, Calderstones High School, Manchester Islamic High School for Girls and St Annes RC High School, Team Companion from Ladybridge High School beat off the competition with their idea for a new mental health app. All finalists taking part had worked hard to beat off 140 other teams of students from schools across the North West to reach the finals.

Presenting their ideas in a Dragons’ Den style pitch, with the Manchester skyline in the background at the impressive KPMG Manchester office, all the teams wowed the panel of highly acclaimed judges including: Dr Erinma Bell MBE – Deputy Lieutenant for Greater Manchester, David Wood – Tax Senior Manager from KPMG, Siddika Ahmed – CEO of Breaking the Cycle and Irfan Munir, a Partner at MWG Solicitors. KPMG are hosting not one but two Enterprise Challenge regional finals in 2018.

Winning Team Companion were gushing with praise for their mentor, Maqsood Khan from The Crown Prosecution Service,  after their well-deserved win, saying: “Masqood kept us focused and motivated, and pushed us through times when we felt like giving up. We were nervous when hearing the pitches from the other finalist teams but tried to stay focused. We are really proud of winning and am excited for the National Finals!”

Team Companion will now enter the final stage of the competition and progress to the Enterprise Challenge Grand Finals in London on the 16th May, where they will go on to compete against all other winning schools from respective areas including the West Midlands, Yorkshire, Glasgow, the South West and London for the chance to become the national champions of 2018!

The overall winning team will win a prize of £2,500 for their school plus a further £500 to invest in developing their business idea and making it a commercial reality. Previous winners have also enjoyed tea at 10 Downing Street and a unique tour of Clarence House.

Keynote speaker on the day Laurence Marlor, entrepreneur, was inspired to be part of the event and said: “I’ve been really impressed by the efforts put in by the incredible volunteer mentors to support the students!”

Chair of judges, Dr Erinma Bell MBE was particularly impressed: “I was pleasantly surprised at how well the students covered highly relevant social issues, such as mental health, as well as issues which gravely effect young people in particular.

“I admired the way they attempted to address and overcome such issues in ways that best appealed to their peer groups, such as the App the winning team proposed.”

Run annually, Mosaic’s Enterprise Challenge is a national competition that is part of The Prince’s Trust and which aims to inspire knowledge, raise aspirations, confidence, self-efficacy and long-term employability among secondary school pupils from some of the most deprived communities across the UK. Supported by specialist, volunteer mentors from across the business community, students compete for seven-weeks in an online business game where they must develop, market and sell a new product.

Mosaic North West Enterprise Challenge 2018 Regional Final

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