"Helping children achieve real life skills" is just one of the many comments from our latest Upstart Enterprise afterschool club. "It's made him determined to run a business" - parent of a 10 year old.
Upstart Enterprise is well known for delivering afterschool enterprise clubs develop entrepreneurial skills, increase confidence and focus on selling, pitching and smart thinking. The clubs (normally paid for by parents and Grant applications) run a 7 week
More of us are now working from home and vital community centres in the most disadvantaged communities have had to close. For those still working we've had to adapt to home working and working with
We are delighted to have been awarded funding to deliver more 'Enterprise in disguise' community action projects across Newcastle. We're kicking off with a jobs and skills fair in Throckley on Thursday 30th April, followed
Upstart Enterprise has a proven track record in delivering quality afterschool and during school clubs to years 5-8 (ages 9-13). Funding is hard to come by for running these clubs in deprived areas of Newcastle,
We're really pleased to be working with a group of volunteers in Benwell in Newcastle. It's on a launch of new office spaces at Carnegie Building. The office spaces lend themselves well to like-minded charities
We're bowled over by the awesome feedback from parents, children and teachers so far for the after school clubs we run across Newcastle. Our 7 week programmes focus on ideation, smart thinking and the development
Community Lottery Awards for All enabled us to work in Throckley in 2019. We worked with community volunteers who identified a need for a jobs and skills fair for the young unemployed and returners to
In 2018, I volunteered to help in PSHE classes for Year 7, working on an enterprise challenge. What I found was that the teachers were great at teaching the curriculum but teaching a class of


