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  • Bishop Fox MYM

    10/04/2008

    Bishop Fox MYM

    In National Enterprise Week 2005, we began forging strong links with local businesses and community through talks and breakfasts. We were involved with Outposts Ltd and a number of other Somerset schools in developing a project which will see a party of 20 Somerset students traveling to Peru in 2007. We were putting together this team of yr 10 students to engage in community and commercial activities to raise money and awareness of the plight of street children living around the ancient capital of Peru, Cuzzo. We set up Taunton Enterprise Network with 5 other local schools St. Augustine’s, Ladymead, Castle, Heathfield, Courtsfield and Kingsmead. We were able to share good practice and reconfirm our desire to work together in delivering high quality enterprise education to the students in Taunton. We have lots of internal Enterprise Challenges including Conference Day Programme, Enterprise in Action, Project Business, Playing for Success, Masterclass, Rapid Response Challenge, Work Skills, Entrepreneur Skills, Going for Profit. We were given the Project Business Award 2005 & 2006 for Somerset for all our efforts to promote enterprise. As for Taunton Chamber of Commerce, the school is a member so as to reflect its interest in the local business …