social enterprise

The Big Lottery Fund is helping to create a new bank of young social entrepreneurs by backing this year's Make Your Mark With a Tenner initiative.

A £250,000 grant to Enterprise UK will support this unique opportunity which taps into the innovative minds of young people, giving them the chance to make their ideas happen.

Make Your Mark With a Tenner loans young people £10 and challenges them to make as much profit and social impact as they can over the space of a month. In 2009 over 16,000 young people under the age of 19 took part in the initiative, with the top 50 entries making an impressive average profit of £261.

The grant from BIG will be used to extend the initiative into areas of England where young people have little opportunity to gain experience in social enterprise. It will also help evaluate the impact of the 'Make Your Mark' experience on the participants and share learning with relevant national and local organisations such as enterprise and young people's organisations.

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Young entrepreneurs are being encouraged to explore ideas that pay off for their local communities.

The Big Lottery Fund is backing this year's Make your mark with a tenner initiative with a £250,000 grant to Enterprise UK, which organises the campaign.

Make your mark loans young people aged 19 and under £10 and challenges them to make as much profit and social impact as they can during the month of March through an enterprise which benefits their community.

The Big Lottery grant will be used to extend the initiative into areas of England where young people have previously had little opportunity to gain experience in social enterprise.

More than 16,000 young people took part last year, with the top 50 entries making an average profit of £261.

Deputy director of policy and partnerships at the Big Lottery Fund (England), Margaret Cooney, said: ‘This is a unique opportunity to get some real hands-on experience of entrepreneurship with real money, and offers a chance for initiative and creativity to shine through.’