1. Enterprise & Education Alliance
Cheshire Garden Enterprise Days

2. Enterprise & Education Alliance
Formed in 2005 by schools, businesses and interested parties.
To improve the co-operation between businesses and schools/colleges.
To provide quality and innovative enterprise training to schools and colleges.

3. Enterprise education Presented enterprise days across Cheshire
We have been working with the Cheshire Year of Gardens 08 to deliver a garden enterprise day to high school students

4. Garden Enterprise Days
Worked with CYOG08 & RHS
Garden enterprise day
Based on careers in horticulture
Garden design was key element
Year long garden topic

5. How does your garden grow?
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6. How does your garden grow?
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8. Enterprise
Success
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9. Garden Design PLANTS Design elements Water Feature Paths Patio
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10. Garden Design
Garden Designed

11. Growing
Young
Dreams
Enterprise
In Cheshire’s Schools

12. The Garden Day Work in small teams as ‘garden design businesses’
Students design a garden to meet a local social need
Established social enterprises to finance ongoing upkeep of garden
Several thousand students have now been involved

13. Enterprise Awareness
Some schools have taken the garden theme and made it a full year project
Many schools have installed new gardens in their grounds – over 30 small social enterprises established
Students have been introduced to the world of enterprise through horticulture

14. Going Forward
Working with European partners to share our ideas and best practice
National interest with Cheshire leading the way
Raise student awareness of the sector as a potential career choice

15. Latest progress Full Community projects now being developed
Using local and national funding to establish a garden (Lottery etc)
Establishing social enterprises to finance the upkeep and future development of the garden

16. Community projects Working across the community:
Special schools
Deprived areas
Socially disadvantaged
Ethnic communities
Crewe Greenscape project

17. about the open green spaces that surround the areas we live
Greenscape
A new project
about the open green spaces
that surround the areas we live

18. Working across the landscapes

19. Making changes to spaces like these

20. art works made from recycled materials By planting spring flowers
exciting landscaping projects
art works made from recycled materials or or
By planting spring flowers

21. Blank canvas
-waiting for
your ideas

22. Would you like to design something for yourselves?

23. A Garden for you Something that’s designed by you
Something that means a lot to you
Wildlife
Bats & birds
Butterflies & bees
Sports & games

24. Our community Work with our local community
Develop solutions to local problems
Support to get them established
Support to establish social enterprises to keep them going
An opportunity to make a difference

25. to the world of enterprise
Working with students
and communities
can introduce them
to the world of enterprise