Excitement Mounts for Blossom Celebration Event

All attention will be focussed on what the twelve schools taking part in the third round of the Make £5 Blossom scheme have done with the £150 given to them when the next celebration event takes place in July this year  at Hull Truck Theatre.

The third  round of this challenging scheme saw twelve primary schools and twelve  local businesses meet for the first time at the end of April 2010 in the Guildhall to discuss their collaboration. At this meeting contact details, a formal contract and the all-important £150 loan were exchanged between each school and business partner. The following 3  months will see the business investors act as mentors for their respective school partners, being invited to the school on a regular basis to see what ideas the children have come up with to try and make a profit on the loan.

The July celebration  event, which will be  supported by St Stephen’s Centre, Hull Training, Hull Truck, Rotherham Ready and Hull’s Youth Enterprise Bank,will see the culmination of the 4 months of enterprising activity and will feature presentations by the young people,teachers and the businesses involved.

The schools taking part include Griffin, Thanet, St Thomas Moore, North Ferrby, Broadacre, Thoresby, Gillshill, Eastfield, East Halton, Alderman Cogan, Thorpepark and Longhill primary schools and all will be hoping that it is their idea which has been most successful and made the largest profit in July. The Hull business involved in the third round are Neil Hudgell Solicitors, KWL, CorpCom, The One Point, The Tigers Trust, Pollyanna on-behalf of Princes Avenue Traders, Kingstown Furniture, Top Banna, Brigg Garden Centre, Hallmark Solicitors, Dove House and Sign Services.

Neil Hudgell  of Neil Hudgell Solicitors and Chairman, Hull Kingston Rovers said,"I thoroughly enjoyed my first experience of £5 Blossom -  It is refreshing to see so many local businesses give their time and money so freely in aid of such an innovative programme. This is a great example of what the Hull business community is about, giving something back for the betterment of the children of this city and their personal development. The enterprise shown by the children was a joy to see and there clearly are some bright young stars blossoming in our primary schools.