Eventerprise

Eventerprise is the Academy's pupil-led financial business linked with the Purple Pound Economy.

                                     Some of the members of the hard-working Eventerprise Team

When the Purple Pound scheme started, it was with an annual 'real-money' budget of £300, with which to buy stock for the Purple Pound Emporium. Once the scheme became more established it became fully self-financing.

This was through creating an “Eventerprise Team”: a group of pupils tasked with finding ways to raise real money, through after-school events for pupils and parents, such as “Pizza Parties”,  “Frozen Fridays”, “Popcorn Playtimes”, film-screenings, and discos. The pupils organise the events entirely themselves, coming up with the concepts, designing the advertisements, writing letters to parents, preparing budgets, pricing the tickets, and, of course running the events themselves, for example by greeting people at the doors, taking coats, and cleaning up afterwards!

As Eventerprise events require real money, its employees have to pitch each event to the Principal for her approval. The pupils with budget-holding responsibilities then source any necessary stock, making sure they assess best value for money to maximise profit. 

Not only do Eventerprise organise and run profit-making events, they are also responsible for non-profit making opportunities that they, themselves wish to support. In recognition of all their charity work, Eventerprise were awarded a Picture News Bronze Impact Award.

‘We loved hearing about the fabulous work the children did to donate food to the local community Foodshare project. It was lovely to read how the children were so heavily involved in the planning of the project, as well as leading discussions to ensure everyone knew what types of food were best to donate.’ Picture News

 

Each term, Eventerprise are challenged to plan, organise and run one charity event, one school event to generate income for Purple Pounds and one Purple Pound event for employees to enjoy.

'Being part of the Eventerprise Team is lots of fun, but it also teaches you a lot about being part of a team and how to run a business.'

'We choose all the events at school, and we are in charge of running them. We raise money for the school and for charity.'