Being GR8 in O8

Did you know that the person who invented the football net was from Liverpool? Leading up to the start of the next football season can you imagine how a Saturday afternoon would look without one? Or, what a trip to A&E would be like without x-rays which where also pioneered from Liverpool, and the one everyone will have heard of Stevenson’s Rocket. The commute to work would be very different if Robert Stevenson hadn’t made his dreams reality. Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best and also the ones that have the greatest impact on our life.

The team at Make Your Mark in Liverpool, along with Lime Pictures are offering one young person between 14 and 30 the chance to win £1,000 simply for their ideas.
Gr8 in 08 is challenging young people to come up with an idea to help Liverpool celebrate it’s year as European Capital of Culture. All you need to do is state the idea and the five steps to make it happen – that’s it. Then email that through to helen@makeyourmark.org.uk with GR8 in 08 in the subject box, it is as simple as that.

The competition will be running until 20th August with the winners being announced on Liverpool’s 800th birthday.

Enterprise development and creative thinking is so critical for the long term positioning of our city, and it not just about creating new entrepreneurs, we all need employees now and in the future to be looking at how to improve efficiency, develop new products and exploit emerging markets which all take entrepreneurial thinking.

So if you are looking for something to keep your teenagers occupied this summer, why not get them thinking about the next great business idea.