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Useful ideas for helping young people build money confidence, enterprise thinking, work-ready skills and practical independence.

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Business November 13, 2025 3 min read

Look beyond young-founder headlines to three useful decisions: noticing a purpose, developing a craft and starting with support.

Business November 6, 2025 3 min read

Use the changing seasons for manageable money conversations, with low-pressure projects and a pause during busy family holidays.

Business October 31, 2025 3 min read

A creative idea becomes a possible business when it solves a useful problem. Follow a simple route from sketch to a small, honest test.

Business October 22, 2025 3 min read

Twelve books offer different ways into money, ideas and perseverance. Pair each with a short conversation or practical challenge.

Business October 16, 2025 3 min read

Use a small business project to practise defining a problem, comparing options and learning from a fair test.

Business October 8, 2025 3 min read

Help young people distinguish sales from money available to spend, then make a reasoned choice about saving and reinvesting.

Business October 1, 2025 3 min read

Ten adaptable enterprise activities for youth groups, each with a clear task, an observable outcome and a useful debrief question.

Business September 24, 2025 2 min read

A small enterprise experiment can help a young person practise useful decisions without committing to business ownership or public selling.

Business September 18, 2025 3 min read

Use one simple, supervised project to teach the difference between a budget, a cost, a sale and money left over.

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