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21 Feb 2012
Cumbria Young Enterprise team creates anti-poverty food bank.
Ask young people in Cumbria to name a place where people can't afford to eat and chances are they will choose a faraway country in Africa or the Middle East.
Yet poverty is a very real problem in the North: every day people go hungry for reasons ranging from redundancy to someone on a low income receiving an unexpected bill. It's a situation that has shocked sixth-formers at Caldew School in Dalston - and spurred them on to do something about it. A group of year 12 students decided on a non profit-making scheme to help those in need as their the Young Enterprise programme, where young people learn about business and the world of work.
16 Feb 2012
Dragon and friends urge firms to back Young Enterprise.
Theo Paphetis of Ryman former M&S Supremo Stuart Rose and Cisco's Phil Smith urge Britain's firms to do more to nurture young business talent. Business leaders are urging graduates and young people to become more enterprising and commercially aware in order to find the jobs they want and help to boost business.
