Anne-Sophie, Elaina, Mellissa and Thibault wanted to use their interests in business and entrepreneurship to design a skills-based course to grow and strengthen local businesses.

Working with a group of aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners, the team began designing a diagnostic tool to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of each business idea and the participant’s current needs.

 

Discovering that many of the people they spoke to did not have a written business plan, they designed and ran a short practical course where participants were guided through the basics of business planning and steps to take to being to test their ideas. They also held a clinic with business owners to provide individual support in other skill areas.