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| Farr Safer, with John Thurso MP, at the YE UK Final in the Savoy Hotel London |
Well, unfortunately, we won't be troubling the trophy cabinet at Farr High School this year (they're going to have to build another one soon anyway) but the three-day Young Enterprise UK Final was a spectacular success in many other ways. Our team, "Farr Safer" (see earlier articles) acquitted themselves remarkably well, made many friends from the other teams and gained several business contracts for their ongoing entrepreneurial activities.
The team travelled down to the rather nice Savoy Hotel in the school minibus (about 1400miles return) driven by Geordie and Kirsty - and the other heroes must be Linda Thomas (Highland & Moray Chair) and David Charnley (the very proud Link Teacher) who helped make everything happen, along with Ali Murray from Atlantic Marketing who coached the team in presentation skills.
However, most of the praise goes to Josh, Andrew, Hayley, Sam, Lucinda & Ritchie for being such fantastic amabassadors; not only for our area but for all of Scotland. I've never seen students work so hard at a presentation; using virtually every opportunity to practice delivering their message and vision to an always-interested audience of business people.
It wasn't all work though, the long days included a visit to HSBC's HQ in Docklands (42 Floors above the city), a meal at Jamie's Italian in Covent Garden (thanks to Highland Opportunity) and some "culture" in the form of "Mamma Mia" Some of the team took the opportunity to tour the Houses of Parliament courtesy of John Thurso MP.
The eventual winners were Summit Enterprises from London and we wish them every success at the European Final in Norway. We also pass on our thanks to the organising team at Young Enterprise UK; in particular the very hands-on Chief Executive, John May, for being such a brilliant Master of Ceremonies.
