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>> PATRICK: SKILL! is our biggest flagship scheme. It's a series of intensive one day
workshops where professionals and students join forces to devise a pitch of ideas with
the objective of helping students to develop problem-solving, communication, inter-personal,
presentation skills -- always fundamental skills they need in the workplace, just in
the wider world outside school and help professionals develop their coaching, mentoring and leadership
skills, by supporting the development of young people.
>> SAM: [music] I'm here today to hopefully try and advise and give some support and help
to young people in terms of how they can think about marketing their businesses in the future.
Job opportunities are few and far between so there is much more entrepreneurialism,
much more start-up that we are seeing so I think it's important for businesses that are
successful at the moment to be working with young people and helping them develop the
right kind of skills to develop successful businesses.
>> PATRICK: [music] There's a whole range of different ideas across all different sectors
and some of them more social businesses and some of them more charitable endeavors, some
of them commercial more profit-making ideas.
It just shows the wide range of ideas and opportunities we have here creatively.
>> PHIL: [music] And I've come a long today because I'm really passionate about young
people and I want young people to do really, really well.
The world's a different place now a days from when I grew up and there's so many opportunities
and possibilities for young people.
But you've got to have experience, you've got to understand how business works, you've
got to understand the language of business, you've got to understand you know the outcomes,
the drivers and the things that you need to do to be successful if you start your own
business.
>>SAM: [music] Creativity is going to be key I think that young people have in spades much
more so than slightly jaded older people. So for me that's going to be the most interesting
thing.
And I don't necessarily expect lots of sophisticated business ideas but just to see that spark
of creativity will be really exciting for me
>> PHIL: [music] Maybe now that I'm a little bit older it's about giving a bit back and
I've come today to try and share some lessons of running a huge multi-national company and
then passing down some of that experience to young people.
>> PATRICK: [music] Aldermore has been involved with SKILL since 2012 where they helped to
launch the programme in Manchester partnered with DWF which is our host for today's programme,
one of the major law firms in the region.
Aldermore this year, we're working with a three-workshop programme in London, Manchester
and Birmingham with a local part in each region and again in Manchester we are working with
DWF in partnership with their people a long side Aldermore people to make this programme
happen.
Aldermore obviously has a commitment to championing small business and I think their feeling with
this programme, they're trying to champion the future of small business and it connects
quite positively with their ethos and their culture and their values and they're trying
to support the next generation.