Enterprise Experience 2010

This was the Kent Foundation's second "Enterprise Experience" and following the success of last year's event in Wales we decided to make it a totally Kent experience. The venue for 2010 was in the village of Doddington which is only a few miles from Sittingbourne with good access to both the M20 and M2.

With only 2 weeks to go before the start of the course we had an influx of applications and making the final decision on who would benefit the most from the course was extremely hard, considering the high quality of applications from everyone. Final selection came down to 14 budding entrepreneurs, all with there own particular interests and all hoping to develop skills to support their future within business.

The course was held on the 14th - 18th June and each day (9am - 10pm) was filled with workshops, practical challenges and opportunities to experience Kent based businesses first hand.

The key strength to the week was the quality of input from lead professionals from various Kent based businesses, University of Kent and Kent Foundation, delivering workshops on

• Business Planning,
• Finance,
• Sales,
• Presentation Skills,
• Marketing,
• Management and Leadership.

The participants also took part in very practical experiences which included a board room experience at Kent Science Park and group decision and planning activities in the great outdoors of Kent.

This all culminated at the end of the week when the participants presented marketing plans they had worked extremely hard on over the week to representatives from local businesses, education, business mentors and staff of the Kent Foundation.

The initial evaluation from the participants has shown a very positive benefit to them all. With confidence built and a mass of information taken away, they all felt better equipped to develop and build there own future within business.

Some Feedback

"Hello, just wanted to thank you for an amazing week. I think everyone enjoyed every minute of it and we learnt so much. The workshops and guest speakers were really helpful and the speakers were really motivating and hearing about their lives and the ups and downs they went through were really insightful. I will take so much away from this week and will keep in touch, no doubt I will be calling up and asking for more information and help in the future."