Abingdonian 2020

28 The Abingdonian Young Enterprise During my experience of Young Enterprise I learned how to both work as a team but also how to take a leadership role as part of my company, Chopping Wood. It is important to listen to people when they are talking but you also have to be decisive when you make decisions when the group is split. Furthermore, it is important to be organised especially when we went to fairs because we had to account for all of our products, our stand and everyone who was supposed to be there and when they were supposed to be. Furthermore, when we were selling in Abingdon town, I learned how to think quickly on my feet and how to appeal to people. Also, it was crucial that we communicated because we manufactured chopping boards and clocks but we had to make sure we didn’t run out of wood and that all of our designs and decisions were run by everyone in our group. In addition to this we have had to be more organised and communicate well as a team especially as we had to work from home and do our weekly meetings via Zoom during the lockdown. Roman Buckland, 4AMB Over the last year, we led the Abingdon Young Enterprise team, Chopping Wood. The year was full of ups and downs but we ended up succeeding and pulling in around £700 of profit. We all learnt a lot within our different roles, whether it was how to advertise and build a brand within social media, or how to run the financials of a small business. The program has given each of us a wide range of entrepreneurial skills that not only will look good on CVs or personal statements but begin to give us the skillset required to be successful in the highly competitive start-up world. Thank you to Mr James and our business advisors who were with us for every step of the way, giving advice and educating us from their fruitful careers. We cannot begin to explain how much we have learnt from this program and we wish the best of luck to next year’s teams.