It’s coming to that time of year again, when we celebrate entrepreneurship in all it’s forms and guises with over 32,000 events taking place in 88 countries during one week in November called Global Entreprenurship Week. Did you know that over half of all young people in the UK want to start a business? However, only 1 in 20 actually go ahead with their plans. The reasons are many and we’ve explored some of them through the subjects discussed on the Mowgli Foundation blog.
They include issues about whether entrepreneurialism is celebrated and encouraged and what skills sets might be required. We don’t teach our young people how to be in business in the UK, I’m not sure we teach them anywhere in the world either. But as research consistently shows, it is the entrepreneurs and the small and start-up businesses that develop the highest and fastest growth, creating bigger and better opportunities for job creation and wealth along the way; if we don’t do something to encourage more people to get the business bug, then economies could suffer more than they need.
Global Entrepreneurship Week is a worldwide movement of entrepreneurial people, with millions unleashing their enterprising talents and turning their ideas into reality. This is the time, if ever there was one, to explore the opportunities that becoming your own boss, running your own business and being entrepreneurial can offer. And, through it all, for the whole journey, there are organisations like The Mowgli Foundation who can help you nurture your fledging business into full growth. If you would like to find out more about our mentoring programme, get in touch with us and we’ll see what we can do.
Global Entrepreneurship Week takes place between 15th and 21st November and you can find what’s happening where from their website at www.gew.org.uk
