Can I become a volunteer?

Young Enterprise North West offers a range of programmes for young people from four years through to the age of twenty five. The programmes are all based on the principle of learning by doing and bring volunteers from business into the classroom or university to work with the teacher and students. Each programme is supported with training for teachers and volunteers providing comprehensive materials for all.

Some of the Young Enterprise programmes offer students direct experience of enterprise through working together to run their own real company. Others are structured around seminars and classes using games, activities and role play to help students to develop skills and capabilities for enterprise business and the world of work.

This cannot happen without volunteers- each year Young Enterprise volunteers contribute over 4 million hours' worth of support nationally.

In the future Young Enterprise would like all young people to have the opportunity to experience the world of business and this can only be achieved with your help.

"I volunteer for Young Enterprise as a Business Adviser because of the great sense of pride and achievement in being recognised as a community and role model and the potential for personal development. There is great benefit in developing young people in advising them about how they can succeed in the world of business and work. The most important thing you can show a young person is to make them feel important and praise them for even the slightest improvement. Motivating young minds will display their potential skills and abilities. The seeds of success are already within the young people I mentor. My motto is simply 'YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW'."
Ahmed Esat, Business Analyst, United Utilities, Manchester