Business Week 2010 is well and truly underway after the official launch this morning at the annual Bondholder's Breakfast meeting at the KC Stadium that was attended by over 200 local business people.
The event was hosted by the truly inspirational Phil Batty from Force 7 & Amanda Hartley from Amanda's Blue Orchid Florists
Philip began Force-7 in May 2006. Force-7 is run solely by 14-24 year olds and works with businesses and organisations to enable them to more effectively engage young people.
Amanda's Blue Orchid was first opened in February 2008 by 19 year old Amanda Hartley. Amanda has since gone on to win Hull's Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009 and is an ambassador for the "Make Your Mark" Campaign.
First up was by Gary Verity, Chief Executive of Welcome to Yorkshire.
High flying businessman Gary Verity heads the Yorkshire’s tourism industry in a move aimed at increasing its profile across the world and boosting its value to the regional economy.
A dynamic and motivational leader Gary has an excellent track record in brand building, customer service and managing complex businesses with a national and international profile, and wide experience of multi-site (600+) retail outlets.
The visitor economy is currently worth £6.1 billion to Yorkshire, and provides jobs for 240,000 people. It is the sixth largest sector in the regional economy. Mr Verity and his team work with tourism businesses, local authorities, and other partners and aim grow the region’s visitor economy by £300 million pounds over the next three years.
High flying businessman Gary Verity heads the Yorkshire’s tourism industry in a move aimed at increasing its profile across the world and boosting its value to the regional economy.
A dynamic and motivational leader Gary has an excellent track record in brand building, customer service and managing complex businesses with a national and international profile, and wide experience of multi-site (600+) retail outlets.
The visitor economy is currently worth £6.1 billion to Yorkshire, and provides jobs for 240,000 people. It is the sixth largest sector in the regional economy. Mr Verity and his team work with tourism businesses, local authorities, and other partners and aim grow the region’s visitor economy by £300 million pounds over the next three years.
Other memorable presentations came from young entrepreneurs Alex Booth from Clean Drives of Hull and Phil Benson from Zing Smoothies. Dave Barley who joined the Sewell Group as an apprenticed 5 years ago. Amanda Hartley from Blue Orchid who is mentioned above and 14 year old local entrepreneur. Bronwyn Wilson. All truly inspirational.
Presentations where also given on this years 2 chosen charities.
'The Victoria Climbie Charitable Trust' - which has been supported over the last 3 years to build and equip a much needed school in Abobo in Ivory Coast in memory of Victoria Climbie. This year they are aiming to raise enough money to provide every child at the school with a new uniform. We need to raise about £1,000. Also in this World Cup year we want to help the school build a football pitch for use by the children and the local community.
The second charity 'Real Aid and this year they are running a very simple but very practical and effective campaign 'Wellies for Africa.'
'Real Aid supports agricultural projects in the Bumpe Chiefdom, Sierra Leone. This enables the local community to grow rice to feed their families. During 2010 we aim to help the community by reducing the spread of parasitic disease which unfortunately spreads through the soil to the field workers.
And finally the most memorable presentation came from the children at St Nicholas Primary School as they talked about the business operations, processes and procedures they used to turned £150 into £2000. What a fantastic achievement and a huge well done.
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