Young Enterprise team make national final - 17/6/09

Published: 17 June, 2009

Four Plymouth College students made an outstanding presentation at this year’s regional Young Enterprise semi-final in Bristol winning their way to the London final.

Jess Evans, John Hall, Jon Coyte and Ben Gorvin, are part of the “Affinity” Young Enterprise team made up of pupils from Plymouth College and Plymouth High School for Girls. 

The winning enterprise is a book “Prambles” containing pram-friendly walks for families with young children.  It has been a sell out in Waterstones, attracted interest from a venture capitalist, created offers from publishers and even congratulations from Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The team also won “Best Use of Technology Award” and Jonathan Shields was awarded “Young Enterprise South West Teacher of the Year”.

Plymouth College has been involved in a number of Young Enterprise successes in recent years – four teams have made it to county finals, two teams to regionals but “Affinity” have scored a first in winning a place at a national final.

John Bennett, Chief Executive of Young Enterprise South West, says: “Competition was fierce this year which shows just how good the team is. ‘Affinity’ have the calibre of a national team and they will be serious contenders in the finals”.