Its mission is to inspire and equip young people to learn and succeed through enterprise. The future success of our nation rests on our ability to prepare young people to deal with the complexity of the modern world and make their own contribution to economic, social and cultural progress. Students often leave education without knowledge or experience of the role business plays in our society and without the essential personal skills, motivation and self-confidence to build a successful career and contribute to economic success.
All programmes can contribute towards academic, GNVQs and vocational qualifications.
There is also an optional Young Enterprise examination, conducted and awarded by OCR, which aims to find out what a candidate has gained from the Young Enterprise experience through a case study, question and answer paper. The examination is available for students of the Company Programme, Team Enterprise and Graduate Enterprise. Young Enterprise company trading is supported through the Company Programme International Links, a free website service which allows Young Enterprise companies to partner with student companies overseas and forge international links in order to share ideas and experiences, arrange trade fair exchange visits, or trade with their partner company. They were guided, encouraged and taught by more than 8,500 volunteer advisers from local and national business. Work associated with the Rank Charities Through the work of the Youth or Adult worker Zareena Abidi, a non-traditional element to Young Enterprise has developed.