Our club started in Enterprise Week 2007. We are running a social enterprise to support our partner school in Africa. Our company designs and prints t-shirts.

GCSE Applied Business Students run their own Social Enterprise as a young cooperative: activities include fair Trade stalls, offering business guidance to year 7 and Campaigns for ethical decisions on carbon emmissions.

Students in Year 9 and above can set up their own businesses, trading in school, and there is a venture fund to support them. Our students, both past and present have gained a great deal from such activities as Young Enterprise, Year 9 Co-Op Challenge, forming their own Mini-Enterprises, Year 12 Accounting Day, to name but a few! As part of the Business Studies Department we also run an Economic Awareness club. We have lots of school businesses running, we have also created an eco-garden. We have now gone into partnership with a local business in the hospitality industry and within a social enterprise frame. Check out our website to see the press release!

We are currently in the process of starting out company and we are looking to run a coffee shop on Focus Days for parents who are waiting to see tutors and also serve refreshments at school social events using Fair Trade goods. We also have a Training Room that we would like to hire out to external training providers and will look at marketing ideas to promote this.

Students in years 7 - 11 are working together as a council to organise enterprise activities within school. Year 11 have a prom committe which organises the year 11 leavers prom. A fashion show is organised also to provide funds for the event. Year 10’s are involved in the YE Company programme and are running a fair trade social enterprise business in conjunction with partner schools in Uganda. Years 7 - 9 are involved in several projects. A farming challenge has them working with the East Hull Community farm to organise a Rock Challenge celebration event. They are also involved in the running of the school tuck shop. As a CO-OP school we are keen to promote Coop values and our students activities reflect this.