If we gave you £500 today, could you turn that into £5000 in four months? A cool entrepreneurial fundraiser from Fairbridge asks just that, and lets teams take the organisation’s money to (hopefully) add a zero to the end.
While you’re perhaps already busy playing this game with your own bank account, or an investor’s, I thought this sounded like a great challenge for friends/partners/siblings who could use a bit more excitement at work [update: students too!]. It’s open to teams of 8-12 people, so it should be good fun and sign-ups are now open – email gill.levy@fairbridge.org.uk. I’ve included the Zero to Hero flyer here for full details, so pass on some startup spirit and tell your corporate friends/partners/siblings to get involved.
If you have any wacky ideas of what to do with the money, but are lacking the time yourself, feel free to contribute thoughts below!
We are putting Scotland’s finest to the test, is your company ready to rise to the challenge and compete to see if you have the best entrepreneurs in the region?
The challenge…
If you are part of the most creative, competitive, motivated corporate team in the Scotland read on…
In a nutshell, Zero to Hero is a competitive challenge for teams of 8-12 people, in which each team is presented with £500 and tasked to turn it in to £5000 over four months. How you raise the money is entirely up to you, but we will challenge your team to be as creative as possible. As a business challenge, to be successful your team will have to use every business skill from project management through to negotiation and influencing. The challenge provides a fantastic opportunity to build business skills, network with other local businesses and raise your company’s profile… [for more details: Zero to Hero Challenge]
About Fairbridge:
Fairbridge works with some of the hardest to reach young people aged 13-25 who are outside of education, employment or training across the UK. We support nearly 4000 young people a year to take their first steps to a positive life.
The Zero to Hero sounds great. I have never heard of this before. I wish there was more information on dates and time scales on the flyer but I would have definitely not known about his had it not been for you guys! Thanks.
Hi Hera,
You’re very welcome, glad to hear it’s of interest!
I’m guessing they didn’t want a cut-off date to exclude anyone – feel free to give Gill an email/call, and we’d be interested to know what you hear if you’d like to report back to other readers…
Best of luck in the challenge, sounds fantastic 🙂
Jess
P.S. Have confirmed it’s open to STUDENTS too!
Quite interesting. I’m setting up a Start Your Own Business Challenge, hoping to inspire and motivate 10,000 people to start their own businesses before 2015. I wonder if you have any ideas on how this could be done.
Thanks in Advance.