Recruiter details: Make Your Mark

Make Your Mark is the national campaign to unlock the UK’s enterprise potential. We inspire people to have ideas and make them happen. We aim to create a culture which supports enterprising people and recognises that making money and having a positive social impact can go hand in hand.

This year we will scale up our successful young-people-facing activities, whilst also reaching others with untapped potential, and:

• Increase numbers of people with confidence and motivation to be enterprising, through initiatives like Enterprise Week and Girls! Make Your Mark 

• Increase numbers of people who have enterprise experiences and ambitions, through activities like Make Your Mark Clubs and Make Your Mark Challenge, the UK’s biggest live enterprise competition

• Reach new groups by looking at the barriers and triggers to enterprise within the over 50s, women and specific ethnic groups

We believe

• We can make a huge difference by unleashing the potential of every young person in all parts of the UK and from all backgrounds

• We are bold, audience-led, catalytic and connectors

• People should talk about their ideas and put them into action

• The energy and approach of successful entrepreneurs should be shared more widely

• The best things happen when people work together, and our partners help us achieve greater things

• Those in education, business, government, third sector and the media should include enterprise in what they are doing and saying

• Failure is not a bad thing. Risks are good.

• We should encourage and recognise our entrepreneurial staff, who run websites, businesses and networks and bake great cakes!

Make Your Mark was founded by the four leading UK business membership organisations – the British Chambers of Commerce, the CBI, the Federation of Small Businesses and the Institute of Directors. It is also supported by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and is endorsed by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.

National organisations working closely with the campaign include:
Arts Council England – Association of Colleges – Black Training and Enterprise Group – Business in the Community – Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform – Department for Children, Schools and Families - Enterprise Education Trust - Learning and Skills Council – National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship - National Education Business Partnership Network – National Federation of Enterprise Agencies – Prowess – Quality Improvement Agency – Scottish Government – South-East England Development Agency (representing Regional Development Agencies) – Shell LiveWIRE – Social Enterprise Coalition – Specialist Schools and Academies Trust – The Prince’s Trust – UnLtd – Young Enterprise

www.makeyourmark.org.uk