Harry Rich, Chief Executive of Make Your Mark.

The aim of the Make Your Mark national campaign is to kick-start a culture of enterprise among young people in the UK. It aims to give people in their teens and twenties the inspiration and opportunity to turn their ideas into reality.

Backed by an unprecedented coalition of businesses, charities, education bodies and government, the Make Your Mark campaign runs Enterprise Week, which in 2007 saw over 38,000 young people take part in 7,000 events taking place across the UK.

Events included the Make Your Mark Challenge, the UK’s biggest ever live enterprise competition, Enterprising Young Brits, a competition which rewards people aged 30 and under for making their ideas happen as well as specific days celebrating Women’s Enterprise, Social Enterprise and ‘Ideas at Work’.

However, the Make Your Mark campaign is much more than just one week and works to inspire young people, inform them with next steps information, connect them to each other – through networks that support and encourage ideas – and to influence policy and practice. We are pleased to give our support to the Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership.

Website: www.makeyourmark.org.uk