Young Enterprise

At the Birmingham Area Awards the team won the Sustainability Award as well as the Overall Company of the Year Award. At the West Midlands Awards, they won The Best Financially Managed Company, as well as winning the Runners Up Award! 
The Young Enterprise team, with their company Growing Green achieved success at the area Showcase final in April 2024 as well as the West Midlands final in May 2024. 

Growing Green

Their product - a growing kit, initially growing sunflowers is designed to build emotional bonding, predominantly between grandparent(s) and grandchildren whilst getting children out in the fresh air. 

What is grown becomes the topic of conversation on a regular (weekly/fortnightly) basis as they compete to see who can grow the tallest flower. Each need to record/log the growth (equipment provided) and then compare how their flower is growing. This can be discussed when they visit each other directly, or through social media bringing them together remotely. The chat over WhatsApp or through an Alexa show, for instance, then acts as the catalyst for further conversations enhancing wellbeing especially so, where there may be a lone, single grandparent.