Young people are often natural entrepreneurs: creative, innovative and visionary with immediately transferrable skills that lend themselves to self-employment.
The Student Makers Market brings young entrepreneurs together to create vibrant mini-markets within established street markets, festivals and galleries.
The project sources and supplies free stalls and equipment for unemployed young people, graduates and school students from communities struggling with high levels of youth unemployment and other social and economic problems. The pilot market is in Canterbury, a popular visitor destination with 30,000 students.
HOW FELLOWS CAN HELP
Help is sought from Fellows who can:
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Devise some simple but creative and engaging business modelling and financial training.
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Help build a national profile for the project
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Connect to Europe and finding exciting professionals to inspire other young people involved.
Project Team
Lisa Oulton
Director - Future Foundry CIC
South East
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23rd August 2019
Is it the intention to roll this model out across a wider geography please?
I sit on the board of Spiral, a CIC offering support to young people in danger of becoming NEET's, and this would be an excellent opportunity for some of these youngsters but they are based across London. -
1st May 2019
Interesting!
Please visit MY RSA
Please let me know if I can be of further help!
Agata
http://www.etee.org.uk/trustees.php
http://www.liceogalileicatania.edu.it/
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5th January 2019
Hi Lisa
My name is Tim Walton and I have recently joined . I am working to create a new community in Northamptonshire at Rushden lakes alongside 2000 acres of lakes and nature reserve . One of our aims is to enable growing businesses and start ups to flourish , make connections and work together to support the wildlife reserves and build a community if like minded people . We have the benefit of beautiful environment but with a large on site market place as the shopping and leisure scheme next door attracts 10 million visitors a year .
I’d be very interested in helping your makers establish a presence here . I’m based in london of you want a chat . Regards .
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24th August 2018
Hello Lisa
Hope you are well.
I am CEO of 'The London Youth Support Trust' (LYST) a youth enterprise charity that provides young people with the space and support they need to start a business. We support young people aged 18-30, particularly those who are economically disadvantaged to achieve financial independence through entrepreneurship. Through our business incubation units, based in deprived areas of London, we provide affordable premises for young business owners to work from allied with business advice and support.
As we expand across the country, with a first centre in Scotland opening in October 2018, we are in the process of rebranding to reflect our national reach.
We are looking for areas in which to expand and projects where we can offer support. It would be good to have a chat about this and see if there are any opportunities.
Hope to hear from you soon
Pat
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23rd January 2017
Heya,
Your project sounds amazing and has parallels with work that our university (the University of the Arts, London) and our society (I'm a student) UAL Creative Communities are really interested in.
I'd like to have a chat with you about things, to hear more about what you are doing. Of particular overlap, we're looking at an internationalisation strategy, which will be realised this year, but it is US focussed (as you know we have this great 'special relationship') but the hope is that it will give us a foundation that is strong enough to weather the storm when the Brexit Hurricane starts to subside a bit.
But, I'm going on your project outline and your profile, and I need to know more. It would be good to chat, but if not, to get some literature from you or other materials on your work.
We are open to collaboration, if appropriate, and happy to discuss an arrangement if it turns out that makes sense. But I'm not asking for that or anything else at this stage. Only to see if we can start a dialogue between us that will prevent duplication, help us learn from each other, and ultimately to work towards an (at least a little) similar objective of getting creative ideas into reality.
If I got that message wrong I'm probably not worth bothering with ;)
Jonathan
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