Dawn House School
Directors Amy Tingle and Louisa Harrison have recently been invited to become Education and Business Advisers within the Young Enterprise Scheme, in affiliation with Dawn House School, Mansfield. Young Enterprise is a national education charity, founded in 1963, to forge links between schools and businesses. Its mission is to inspire and equip young people to learn and succeed through enterprise and they operate a number of programmes for young people throughout the UK and aim to provide young people with a practical experience of the world of work.
Education and Business Advisers work alongside young people to make the Young Enterprise scheme as accessible as possible and to facilitate the programme's activities. Louisa and Amy were invited along to Dawn House School to work with their pupils and assist them in planning and developing their own ideas for a new Business Scheme. Dawn House School provides intensive and specialist support for children and young people aged 5 -19 years who have a severe communication disability. The school aims to help pupils achieve their full potential intellectually, academically and socially and after an inspection by Ofsted in January 2005, was recognised as one of the best special schools in the country.
With a sound background in, and knowledge of all aspects involved in the workings of a start-up business, Louisa and Amy were on hand to offer advice to the pupils and provide them with information, tips and a unique insight into the realities of creating and running a successful business. In addition to creating a business idea, the pupils had to appoint a board of directors and assign roles, hold monthly board meetings to assess the progress of the business and continue to develop new ideas.
