Beaconsfield Young Entrepreneurs offer Unique Christmas Shopping Opportunity at Festival of Lights

Unique local Christmas gifts will be available to buy from local Young Entrepreneurs, at the Beaconsfield Festival of Lights 2011.

Taking place on Wednesday 14th December, the Beaconsfield Festival of Lights provides entertainment for the whole family, in the form of a parade starting at at aprox 7.15pm from outside Hughes garage in the new town. See our Beaconsfield Festival of Lights events calender entry for more information.

In addition, there will be many opportunities for some late night shopping during the Festival of Lights as some of your favourite local stores including David Shuttle, Viyella and Space NK plan to stay open. There will also be an array of market stalls for you to browse.

Look out particularly for the local Young Enterprise markets stalls, many who hail from Beaconsfield High School. They are offering some unique gift ideas and at the same time you would be supporting their chosen charities.

Young Enterprise was created in 1963. Merchant banker Sir Walter Salomon founded Young Enterprise in the 1962/1963 academic year. It was based on the American Junior Achievement programme. The concept proved hugely popular. By the 1973/1974 academic year, branches had sprung up in  twenty-two areas of the country  running Young Enterprise programmes. In the Spring of 2011 12 of Young Enterprise's regional organisations merged to form a single, streamlined and even more efficient body. Scotland and Northern Ireland remain separate but closely associated members of the family. 

They campaign for young people's empowerment and they argue that an excessively narrow focus on academic skills and exams risks sidelining other approaches to learning and can fail to give young people the employability skills they need - such as teamwork, practical thinking, punctuality and businesslike behaviour - to succeed in the world of work.

Young Enterprise's mission statement is "to inspire and equip young people to learn and succeed through enterprise." Its guiding principle is to do this through 'learning by doing.'