Apart from the products on offer, visitors had an opportunity to meet with Santa and had their photograph taken as well as enjoy the pamper corner offering services as henna tattoos, manicure or hand massage.  

Following the success of the Christmas fair, Bradford Enterprise Academy will be organising the Bradford College Easter Fair at the end of March 2011 so keep visiting the website for any developments.

The event took place on 14th and 15th October 2010.

The event took place on 17th and 18th September 2010.

7 businesses were present at the Bardford Enterprise Academy stalls over the four days and all proved a hit with shoppers in the city centre with Saturday and Sunday being extremely busy.

Expressions by Abeyy, 2Style, Dilly’s Confectionary, Julie’s Beauty and Face painting with Nicola all took part in the event to showcase their business offering everything from home-made shortbread biscuits to eyebrow threading.

Eveyone who was involved thoroughly enjoyed the event and are already looking forward to taking part again next year!  For further information and contact details for any of the businesses who were at the Bradford enterprise Academy stall, please contact the BEA office on 01274 436137.

From left to right: Hashim Hashim, Michele Sutton, Akhlaq Ahmed, Zaffar Ul Haq and Faisal Rehman

In September 2009, Bradford College in association with Bradford Kickstart launched a new project Bradford Enterprise Academy. The academy delivers inspirational and exciting enterprise programmes to all college students. The aim of the academy is to stimulate high interest in enterprise, enhance the entrepreneurial skills of the students and increase the opportunities of new start up business and self employment.

Bradford Enterprise Academy is offering enterprise training for all curriculum areas throughout college to equip students with the knowledge, skills, confidence and expertise to start their own business or self employment. Since September 2009, 210 Bradford College students successfully completed the new enterprise programme. To celebrate the success the Bradford Enterprise Academy has organised the Enterprise Award Ceremony on Monday 28^th June. During the ceremony, students were awarded the NCFE Award in Developing Business Enterprise Certificates by Michele Sutton, OBE Principal and Chief Executive of Bradford College.

During the ceremony Bradford Enterprise Academy presented Certificates of Achievement to those Bradford College students who have displayed outstanding performance and dedication in enterprise this academic year. Just some of the students included Winners of Best Business Idea Competition (November 2009) Paul Garside, Paul Fisher and Phillip Faulkner with their idea of developing student support tools website or Faisal Rehman, Zaffar Ul Haq and Akhlaq Ahmed who with some of their co students set up and run the Tech World, the very successful IT helpdesk between March and May 2010.

Special thanks were extended to all programme managers and enterprise champions without whom the programme would have not been possible.

 Three members of staff including Elvir Kesedzic (HE Computing), Val Berwin (Beauty Therapy) and Suzanne Griffith (Photography) also received an award for their outstanding contribution to enterprise during the academic year.

 Throughout the event, the BEA team as well as organisations such as Princes Trust and Access to Fund were on hand for students to explore the possibilities of business developments and funding opportunities.

As their contribution to the College’s campaign to support our local Marie Curie hospice in Bradford, students from our National Diploma in Photography programme have taken the colour yellow as their inspiration to take a range of photographs to sell on behalf of this most worthwhile charity.

Their Course Tutor, Suzie Griffiths explained, “Our students are aged from sixteen plus and are already taking fantastic photographs. Rather than just hold the usual parents’ evening at this time of the year, we decided to have a family and friends evening, celebrating them as students and showcasing their talents. As many of these young people will progress to the HND Photography course it seemed a good idea to give them a taster of putting on a show in aid of Marie Curie.”

The students they transformed two walls of the Yorkshire Craft Centre’s café bar with their photographs showing a considerable flair and a diverse range of subjects. They sold prints at the family and friends event and will continue to do so until 19th April 2010.

Suzie continued, “I am so proud of the students. They have really taken on board some the diversity of the colour. The students have designed everything from posters to payment cards. They have received outstanding technical support from Pete Maggs throughout the project. Bradford Enterprise Academy sponsored the printing, paying for photography paper and mounts. They also supplied a printer and donated a prize of a £30 voucher for the best picture, which was awarded to Andrew McCulloch. We did a roaring trade on the night and we will continue to print photographs as people want them, so I hope that lots of people will buy them so we can raise as much money as possible for Marie Curie.”

Prints can be ordered directly from Suzie: just telephone 01274 436465 or email s.griffiths@bradfordcollege.ac.uk

The photographs have been much admired and will remain on display in the YCC café bar until Easter. Prints are for sale at the incredible price of only £2.50 for A4 size and £5 for A3, and 100 % of the sale price goes to the charity. You will never be able to purchase striking original photography at this price and for such a good cause, so please be generous.

To view the photograph, please visit http://www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/culture-and-arts/yellow

Ross Miller

Bradford Enterprise Academy hosted a Hair Styling Show on Thursday 4^th March. Ross Miller, an artistic and a training director of renowned Renella Hairdressing Salon, also member of Habia Skill Team came to do a live cutting demonstration for Bradford College students, but also to talk about his beginnings.  

Ross has 20 years of experience within the hairdressing industry, working for a family hairdressing salon of 41 years in Scotland. He didn’t always want to become a hairdresser. His dream was to study architecture, but when he found out it would take seven years of university studies, he decided against it. He had a chat with his mum and dad and decided to join the family business. And he never regretted his decision.

Ross’s family owns three salons, employing 40 hairdressers, 12 apprentices and five members of administrative team. For Ross, the customer service within the salon plays the biggest role, sometimes more important than the cutting experience. As he says: “Hairdressing industry is a Happy Industry. Customers leave with smiles on their faces.” But it is also a hard working industry as hairdressers work long hours, on their feet most of the time.

“Hairdressing is a big industry that keeps growing as people always need a change. Therefore it is important for a hairdresser to understand what customers need and want. You should try to visualise what you trying to achieve, always thinking of simple steps. It is also important how you position your hands, they are after all your most important tools and the right positioning whilst cutting can prolong hairdresser’s life,” commented Ross.

When asking Ross about his experience as a student, he pointed out the variety of courses and training available to all students nowadays. During his students years, they had much theory to go through that was not encouraging.

Ross realised the need for training whilst working at the family salon. Some years back, Renella Hairdressing salon was the only salon in Scotland that offered hair extensions. After eight years of delivering this service, it was inevitable to train members of other salons to relieve Renella of the pressure. Ross discovered the need for ongoing training of their members of staff and got involved with Habia.

Habia is the standard setting body for the hair, beauty, nails and spa industries, and creates the standards that form the basis of all qualifications including NVQs, SVQs, Apprenticeships, Diplomas and Foundation degrees, as well as industry codes of practice. Nowadays, Habia is an international organisation working with different countries that aim to set and adopt UK standards within Hairdressing and beauty industries.

For any hairdresser, it is great opportunity to become part of Habia team. Ross has recently been to Japan and Kuwait, teaching students and photo shooting in Italy as part of the Habia skill team. Ross enjoys his work very much, always looking forward to the future: “Who knows what will next year bring. But as long as you enjoy what you doing, you have something to look forward to.”

Photography By Joseph Dawson

After two number 7 UK Music Videos on Sky Digital TV, Rapper, Master RS is hosting his new label’s launch party! Master RS will be performing live along with other M.R.S. Records Stars! RS will also be showcasing some of the best upcoming stars from rappers to singers within Bradford ~ No other label has ever held a launch party quite like this! With 2 Floors of DJs & Sounds, and a Bar to suit the fans too!

ONE NIGHT! ONE RAVE!

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The M.R.S. Records Launch Party at Bradford Playhouse Saturday 13th March!

M.R.S. Records Tear It Up In Bradford! With The Hottest Bradford Rave!!! With Unsigned & Signed Names From The Bassline, 4×4, Grime, Rap, Hip Hop Scene. With Great Singers Too!

Live Performance by:

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ALSO LIVE Lyrical War Battle Competition at the end of the night with an EXCLUSIVE PRIZE for the Artist who wins!

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My Story: The Audience and Presentation by Amjad Bashir

Bradford Enterprise Academy was delighted to host an audience and presentation by Amjad Bashir, the owner of the award winning Zouk Tea Bar and Restaurant.

 On 8th March 2010 Amjad Bashir came to Bradford College to talk to our students about his business and how he became one of the best entrepreneurs in Bradford.

Since his young age he has been surrounded by enterprise as his parents owned one of the first fabric shops in the area. After school, Amjad went on to study chemical engineering, but he left the course as he didn’t like it and so he joined the family business.

“When you fall down, you don’t stop, you learn from your own mistakes and became better individual” commented Amjad during his presentation

After one trip to Pakistan, he came back with many ideas and one of them was to open a restaurant. Whilst doing his market research, he notices British people love of Indian food, but also their presumption of low hygiene in Indian kitchen. And so he decided to open a restaurant with open kitchen and big windows, creating clean and airy atmosphere. “When you see an opportunity, don’t wait, time will not wait for you. Cease the opportunity!” commented Amjad. And so he did, the restaurant was a big success and Amjad started making big money, in fact so much that he gave his father £50,000 in cash to buy a house back in 1980.  

Nowadays, Amjad`s children joined the family business even though he did try to discourage them as it is a hard job, working 24/7. They are working on few new projects, recently opened a new restaurant in Manchester and would like to open a franchise in Italy.

About ZOUK

Zouk, the award winning Halal Indian restaurant in Bradford, Yorkshire, is the brainchild of a unique and dedicated family team. Amjad Bashir, better known as Peter to his regular customers, has been working in the restaurant industry for over 25 years.

His sons Mudassar and Tayub, who have grown up sharing their father’s passion for good food, dreamt of creating a new generation restaurant that fused authentic Lahore cuisine with healthy eating and a stylish setting.

They wanted to design a contemporary tea bar and grill that would be the kind of place you could enjoy visiting and socialising with family or friends – essentially more than a restaurant.

It had to be a welcoming environment that opened all day so you could drop in for breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper or even just a tasty dessert.

At Zouk, we have realised that dream. Our top rate chefs use only the very freshest ingredients, assuring you get the highest possible quality in authentic Indian Cuisine.

 “I left Bradford College in 1998 qualifying in NVQ Level 2 and 3 in Beauty Therapy and NVQ Level 2 in Hairdressing.”
“I first worked for a company called Beautiful Ltd which was based at Cedar Court Hotel and Sunwin House in Bradford for 2 years. I then went to work for Esporta Health Clubs as senior therapist for 6 years. During this time I went back to college and completed my Teacher training certificate and accessors award at Keighley College.” 

“In 2007 I opened up my salon in Heckmondwike called Revive. I now manage Revive Spa and employ a team off eight therapists. We are a day spa so we offer a wide range of treatments and services. I also own my own IPL hair removal company called Silk Hair Removal Clinic. At present I have 6 clinics which are based in Bradford, Halifax and Heckmondwike. On the side, I also operate as a rep for the Diamond Touch Microdermabrasion system from Rejeauvanated Ltd.”