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.

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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.

Rap Artist Rahul Sabbarwal, known in the music industry as Master RS is continuing to push barriers for the community and music scene within West Yorkshire. On Friday 4^th June not only will Rahul be fundraising for Bradford Nightstop but he will also be raising funds to shoot a community music video entitled ‘I’m A Warrior’ which is about people overcoming obstacles in their life. In turn this music video will help to keep people away from crime, drugs and alcohol. During the event, two young local rappers will have a chance to perform and showcase their talents!

The event is going to be headlined by Bassline industry DJ legends such as Slick Don, Nasteeboi, Mikey B and DJ Killa who are travelling to support Rahul and the event from across the country (Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Leeds and Telford). The event will also feature upcoming rap talents such as Youtie, Re-load, Aleysha Bower, Duane Simons and many other names.

Since January 2010, when Rahul won Bradford Enterprise’s Best Idea Award with his record label Money Running Slumdog Records (M.R.S. Records), he has been busy looking for funding opportunities to run music workshops in order to provide people of Yorkshire with the same opportunities young musicians find in London area.

Just recently, Rahul’s single ‘I Got To’ got to number 6 on Sky Digitial TV Channel AKA Chart’s. Within the last couple of months, Rahul has been featured in the Telegraph and Argus & Asian Express about his music and positive actions for the community. He has been also listed as an ‘inspirational leader’’ and ‘ambassador’ for the B Someone, the new Bradford Council initiative supporting and inspiring young people of Bradford.

Rahul has released two singles ‘Superstar’ and ‘I’m A Warrior’ which have had huge response on social network sites, which led to Rahul`s and his manager Robert Moore`s decision to hold a fundraiser in order to do a community music video.

When asked Rahul why he chose the Bradford Nightstop, he commented: “One of my close friends Marcus died on a street as he didn’t have nowhere to turn to. I walk around Bradford and see a lot of homeless people and so I want to donate something to a charity that REALLY uses the money to help people. I hope by raising funds for them I can make sure people don’t die or suffer neglect like my friend Marcus did in Nottingham. Also by using the remaining 5% of the event earnings for my music video I can finally do what I want and hopefully keep people away from crime, as the rate of crime and fraud in Bradford is staggering. I strongly believe that by running music workshops I can help to tackle the crime issues at least a little bit and so, make a difference.”

We were delighted to have organised our third event that was dedicated to Health and Care on 30^th March 2010 from 11:30am to 3:30 pm at the Bradford College’s School of Teaching, Health and Care, the McMillan Building (Trinity Road, BD5 0JE). The event was open to everyone and the day was packed with presentations, entertainment, business exhibits, and hands on workshops. 

Business exhibition was open to everybody for the duration of the event. People from communities, schools and colleges from Bradford and Leeds as well as businesses and organisations from Bradford and area attended the event. During the event, representatives from different organisations were be available to offer information on self employment, starting up a business, skill and training opportunities. There were pletny of opportunities to speak to individuals from different types of businesses about their early days and benefit from various types of seminars and hands-on workshops.

The event was carried in a relax athmosphere and everybody had a good time. For some pictures from the event, please see the gallery.