We are a newly formed club, made up of Year 7, 8 and 9 students. We are looking to see other great ideas from different schools that might help to inspire us into creating a sustainable project for our school or community. Although in our infancy, we have some great ideas we would like to share with other schools to see what they think! Current ideas revolve around healthy eating, the environment and some of your more basic ideas to raise some funds, such as a cinema club.

Old Swinford Hospital is a secondary school attempting to launch school businesses. We have independent advisers and offer funding to students’ enterprise ideas. We run a Business Challenge in conjunction with Edgbaston High School for Girls and local businesses at the the end of each lower sixth year. The programme allows the students from both schools to collaberate on real world problems with such companies as Cadbury’s, the NHS, Armed Forces Careers and Royal Mail. We have also set up the OSH Community. This organisation is here to maintain communication and relationships with local businesses and other schools. It encompasses such schemes as Beacon, Enterprise Learning Pathfinder and our links with St John’s Senior Secondary School, Uganda and Pen’s Meadow School.