Tom Ravenscroft founded Enabling Enterprise in 2009 as a result of his reflections on his experiences as a secondary school business teacher in Hackney. While teaching he realised that students were getting little out of the traditional textbook-and-coursework teaching of the subject. To reengage his own students, he put together a course which enabled them to set up their own small businesses. This was supplemented by visits to prestigious organisations to help raise aspirations and relate their efforts to larger-scale enterprising activity.

Enabling Enterprise offers schools all the tools - training, corporate events and teaching resources - to run accredited enterprise courses as part of existing subject curricula, whether French, Maths or ICT.

Enabling Enterprise is the newest member of the Learning Launchpad portfolio, having joined in early 2010. Over the coming months we will be working on business and financial planning with Tom to ensure that he can achieve his vision of giving students high quality, accredited enterprise education across the whole curriculum to the vast majority of secondary schools in the UK.

In the 2010/11 academic year, Enabling Enterprise ran 35 programmes reaching 3,500 students across secondary schools in London and Manchester. Next year, Tom plans to run 80 programmes to provide over 10,000 young people with a real enterprise experience.

Website: www.enablingenterprise.org