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Money Box

How to grow an entrepreneur

Money Box

BBC

Business

4.2825 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What are your children up to this weekend? Many will be busy eating chocolate eggs and enjoying their Easter break from school.

Some youngsters are out there running businesses, balancing their books and even turning a profit. In this Money Box Easter special, we meet some of those remarkable kids and ask how we can help children learn entrepreneurial skills - and whether they should be? Featuring: Precisa, Max and Louis Plus, Julian Hall, CEO of Ultra Education, and Zoe Bennet, Managing Director at Training Personified.

Presenter: Felicity Hannah Editor: Jess Quayle

(First broadcast 12pm, Saturday 8th April 2023)

Transcript

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0:00.0

On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.

0:07.0

It was an extraordinary news story.

0:09.0

The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,

0:14.0

mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.

0:18.0

One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Lucan.

0:22.1

It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.

0:26.0

I'm Alex Fontunzelman.

0:27.4

This is The Lucan Obsession.

0:29.2

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:32.7

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:36.1

Hello, welcome to this Moneybox podcast.

0:39.1

What are your children up to this weekend?

0:41.7

Because if they're anything like mine, they're eating chocolate eggs and watching cartoons.

0:45.9

But some youngsters are out there running businesses, balancing their books, and even turning a profit.

0:51.4

And today on Moneybox, we're going to meet some of those remarkable kids

0:55.1

and ask how we can help children learn entrepreneurial skills

0:59.0

and whether they actually should be.

1:00.7

We've got a couple of experts who train children in business skills.

1:03.7

Before we meet them, I spoke to some young people in Warrington

1:07.0

to find out if they're even interested.

1:09.5

I am seven and I am interested in business. What kind of

1:13.9

business would you run? A Lego business. Oh, nice. And why do you think you'd be good at running a business?

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