Youth Voice

Whether you're just starting your Young Enterprise journey or have already taken part, this page is packed with inspiration, advice and stories from young people like you. You’ve got the potential. We’re just here to help you unlock it.

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Stories

Denbigh High School: Improving attainment, attendance and achievement

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Driving Social Mobility and Building the Future Energy Workforce

Over the past five years, YE has partnered with National Grid to deliver their Pathways to Progress Access programme through their School/College outreach equipping 16–24-year-olds with skills, confidence, and career readiness for the energy sector and green economy.
Pathways to Progress targets disadvantaged communities and supports young people facing barriers to opportunity while aligning with National Grid’s social mobility ambitions and YE’s 2024–2030 Transforming Futures Strategy.

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Sufian Sadiq

“I remember starting my Young Enterprise company with my schoolmates, sitting in that classroom planning, or standing on that market stall selling our products,” recalls Sufian. “I remember clearly thinking, my family’s days of struggling are over because I am going to make something of myself… I felt like I could take over the world.”

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Steph McGovern

“Young Enterprise was really fun for me and my schoolmates because it took us away from the traditional academic stuff and allowed us to learn how business works,” Steph explains. Young Enterprise taught Steph that with hard work, talent, grit and a bit of luck, anyone could rise to the top.

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