Entrepreneur toolkit available to schools in Warwickshire

A new entrepreneur’s toolkit is being made available to schools in Coventry and Warwickshire to help them meet a new requirement to provide all-round careers advice.

The new CW Entrepreneur’s Toolkit provides users with fundamental lessons on running a business and guides them through each stage of the process.

It covers everything from assessing the risks and rewards, development of a business, sales and marketing, pipeline, manufacturing through to exit, if they want to sell the business.

This includes working out whether they really ought to start at all – or find another idea.

As well as helping enterprising students to develop the skills needed to start their own venture the toolkit, once completed, gives users a qualification equivalent to an NVQ Level 4.

Moreover, it will give schools invaluable help to attain new standards for careers advice set out by the Government earlier this year. Under these all maintained schools in England are expected to appoint a Careers Leader to strategically plan careers advice and work towards eight standards of excellence called the Gatsby Benchmarks.

Launched by the CW Growth Hub Business Solutions – an arm of the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership (CWLEP) the toolkit is already being used by established businesses and college students across the region.