Marketing Manager, Gabi, is key note speaker at West Berkshire Young Enterprise Awards 2017.

On the 26th of April I headed back to my home town, to be the key note speaker at the West Berkshire Young Enterprise Awards 2017.

Young Enterprise is the UK's leading charity that empowers young people to utilise their business and personal skills. At this particular Young Enterprise event, over the course of many months, students work in groups to set up and run a business or social enterprise.

Students make all the decisions about their company, from deciding on the company name and product to creating a business plan, managing the company finances, selling to the public at trade fairs to ultimately winding up the company and paying their taxes.

With experience launching and running my own business, as well as many internships and working in marketing, I was asked to be the guest speaker at the 2017 Finals. The evening was a brilliant success, with seven groups of young people from four local schools, doing a fantastic job of presenting the businesses they'd created and the journeys they had been on.

Working with and encouraging young people in business is something I am very passionate about and seeing how much time and hard work had gone in to each groups work was hugely inspiring.

For more information on the Young Enterprise charity and how you as a business or enterprise could get involved in your local events please visit their website.

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