GEW: Home Grown Talent

To celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week, Monmouthshire Youth Enterprise have planned an event for young people following a theme of 'Home Grown Talent'. Representatives of Monmouthshire's four secondary schools and two private schools will be invited to attend the event on the 16th November at County Hall, Usk. 

The event will provide participants with the opportunity to listen to guest speakers, before working in their school teams to develop product and campaign ideas to present to the speakers, in an Apprentice style challenge. Guest speakers at the event will inlcude James Woodcock, MCC Busines Insights Manager, Kellie Beirne, MCC Chief Officer for Enterprise, and James Robinson, Managing Director of Hello Starling. 

James is from Monmouthshire, attended a Monmouthshire school and now owns a successful advertising agency.  James is also a Welsh Government Dynamo (local business men and women across Wales who help to inspire young people as Big Ideas Wales role models).