Events & Current News
DairyNZ Get Ahead Challenge – starting soon!
The DairyNZ Get Ahead Challenge involves eight classroom lessons for Year 10 students. It can be completed anytime between May and November. Students learn about the different careers in the agriculture industry, and then suggest promotions that will attract fellow Year 10 students.
DairyNZ cover the costs of your teacher training and relief teaching costs, but spaces are limited and training starts on May 1st – register now!
Annual Appeal on now
We have launched our first ever donation appeal, and we'd love donations from right across the country. We're proud of our work - we connect with over 40,000 students each year, but we need your help to reach even more students. Click here to donate.
2012 off to a flying start!
The school year has started and our team is busy working with schools right across the country. E-Days are now underway for all students taking part in the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme, while the BusinessNZ Challenge kicked off at Howick College in Auckland. Primary students are also getting ready to start their PrEP programmes too. It's going to be a busy year!
2011 Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme Winners Announced
Once again, the competition was tight at the 2011 National Awards. The judges were impressed with all the schools presenting, but in the end only one team could take out the title of Company of the Year. Congratulations go to + Plus from Macleans College who created and sold handmade soaps made out of recylcled FairTrade coffee grounds.
Well done to our runner up teams, all of our Excellence Award winners and the AUT Scholar of the Year. Please click here view the complete list of winners
To view the photos from the night Please click here
30th anniversary party officially launches YES Alumni Programme
To celebrate our 30th anniversary, we officially launched the YES Alumni Programme at a cocktail party at Government House, hosted by Their Excellencies, the Governor General of New Zealand Lt Gen Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae and Lady Janine Mateparae. To view a copy of the Governor General's speech, please click here. To see photos of the night, please click here.
Huanui College helps the Foundation for the Blind
Congratulations to the 2011 winner of the BP Community Enterprise Programme, Huanui College. Their project is to enhance the sensory experience of visitors to the Foundation of the Blind offices in Whangarei. To see a full list of all the finalists, please click here.
Kiwi Keepers Team- Twyford School awarded “Community Enterprise Team of the Year, 2011
Twyford School in Hastings takes out this award for the second year running! Their project was an outstanding example of integration of social enterprise within the Technology Curriculum. This enterprising team of intermediate aged students has been granted $6700 from Kids restore New Zealand to support the implementation of their project. They have also invited the students (at the Trust’s expense) to participate in an environmental learning and fun experience with Ruud Kleinpaste (the bugman). This is all on top of their prizes awarded by Young Entrprise Trust (see the Community Enterprise homepage for more details of the ten winning teams)
Check out the new and fresh Enterprise Matters e-magazine
Enterprise Matters e-Magazine is our quarterly magazine for schools and supporters. It is available for you to enjoy in two great electronic formats. Take a look at the online page turn edition on our magazine website http://www.enterprisematters.org.nz. While you are there, you can subscribe to receive your own pdf copy delivered to your inbox once a term. Share it with your team and colleagues, save it, print it, forward it!
Student highlighted on Te Kāea
Ranui Ellison from Dunedin was one of several Māori students to attend the 2011 Enterprise in Action weekend in Auckland. She was highlighted in coverage from Maori TV in thei Te Kāea programme.
NZ takes second place in Global Enterprise Challenge 2011
What a weekend! 74 top students from the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) came together to compete in two different international competitions – the FedEx International Trade Challenge (ITC) and the Global Enterprise Challenge (GEC). The results are out for the GEC and New Zealand once again shined taking out second place out of 16 countries participating. The announcement video of the winners and entries can be viewed at: www.globalenterprisechallenge.com. To have the honour of representing NZ nine different teams, each named after their Company host, competed for the national title. Congratulations to Team Telecom for one fantastic entry for New Zealand.
It's not all over yet. Six talented students have been selected to represent us at the FedEX Express International Trade Challenge in Bangkok in August. Congratulations to Jake Mickleson (Rotorua); Sam Mackwell and Jaden Milligan (Christchurch); Lucy Campion, Tehya Reardon and Ben Reynolds (Auckland). A further congratulations to to Tehya who will also represent all YES students as valedictory speaker at the Fairfax Media NZ Business Hall of Fame gala dinner next month.
Students were just buzzing about their experiences over the weekend and that’s what it’s all about. To see more details, check out the video here.
The Numbers Tell the Story
Financial Literacy is a hot topic right now and you see lots of people speaking and writing about it. But what does Financial Literacy really mean for our society. Click here to see what Terry Shubkin, Chief Executive of Young Enterprise Trust, had to say in the May 2011 issue of the INFINZ Journal.
Bringing Financial Education to Pacific Island Schools
We know the strong linkages between the Pacific Islands and New Zealand and the impact that their economic prosperity can have on both New Zealand and the people in Aotearoa with family in the islands. It’s been refreshing to see several Pacific Islands looking to inspire and educate their young people to be more enterprising and financially literate. We are in the final stages of completing phase 1 of a Financial Education project, which is jointly managed by the Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme and the Fiji Ministry of Education. Through the project, a national framework and curriculum material will be developed for the integration of Financial Education into existing subjects for classes 1 to 12 in Fiji. This project is funded by the Australian Aid Programme in Fiji and shall conclude in December 2012. It is envisaged that from 2013, on an annual basis 197,000 students in Fiji will have exposure to Financial Education. We’ve also been consulting with the Cook Islands on bringing both enterprise education and financial literacy into their schools. These are exciting projects and ones that we are proud to be involved with.
