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Week Gen-C is a part-employability, part-career and part-entrepreneurship focused digital event that's been created by young people, for young people in the NW of NI The pandemic has affected us all but young people have been particularly hard hit by the impact it has had on both their education and employment prospects. In a bid to mitigate this, two North-West NI based organisations, Enterpr...
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A review of the innovative, interesting and quirky startups that have featured as one of our Startups of the Week during 2020... It’s been a year that we’ll never forget! However despite all the challenges that we’ve faced, 2020 has seen startups continuing to create, innovate and disrupt in all sorts of sectors. Now as we embark on a new year, we thought it’d be the per...
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Beam, the training platform for homeless people is announced as the best emerging tech startup to bring positive social change through technology... Fantastic news for Beam, a training platform for homeless people as it has been announced as the national winner of the Super Connect for Good competition run by Hays, the recruiting experts, and global super connectors Empact Ventures. The compet...
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The 14-year old entrepreneur who started a beauty business this year and is now supporting the #BeautyBacked campaign to help those adversely affected by the latest lockdown... 2020 will be a year to remember for all of us but for Jasmine Bull, 14, it’ll be remembered as the year she started her own business! First-time entrepreneur Jasmine, transformed lockdown uncertainty into creativi...
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The lowdown on Mirthy, the innovative platform that’s on a mission to combat loneliness in older people by providing online talks with live audience interaction... Older people are more likely to live alone than any other age group, with over 2 million over 70s living alone in England. With many older people forced to self-isolate for much of the year, loneliness has become a danger on a ...
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  Major success for 24 year-old UK entrepreneur having sold his bedroom-built app to UCAS, the UK's university admission service Fab news for a 24 year-old first-time entrepreneur who built a mobile app company from his bedroom, as he has just announced that the business has been acquired by UCAS, the UK’s university admissions service. What is even more remarkable is that the young ...
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We take a look at Jelly Drops, a new product developed by 26-year old inventor Lewis Hornby to boost the water intake of the elderly and those living with dementia After 18 months of development and several months of beta testing during Covid-19, an innovative new startup, Jelly Drops, has just launched in the UK aimed at boosting the water intake of the elderly and 850,000 Britons living with ...
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Leading wellbeing and performance company PUSH are marking World Mental Health Day (10 October) with an ambitious and inspirational event   News from PUSH, a leading wellbeing and performance company with the announcement that they are marking World Mental Health Day (10 October) with their most ambitious event to date. The virtual event, ‘What’s Your Story?’ - taking p...
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You often hear that starting your own business is really not that difficult. And while that is true, the necessary motivation and involvement is usually quite downplayed. That said, some of the most successful companies of today had very different beginnings. Here, we’ll be talking about some of the most successful startups that started off as simple side hustles.However, it’s also w...
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The recent Coronavirus pandemic has proved that many roles can be done from home, making it easier than ever for workers to request this practice in the future.It has also caused chaos for many companies and their staff, with many struggling to make ends meet and facing the possibility of hunting for a new role in these challenging times.If you’ve lost your job because of the pandemic and ...
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