Farr High School team win Scottish finals of Young Enterprise Scotland Awards
FARR High School’s enterprise team have once again taken the top award in the national Young Enterprise Scotland Awards this week.
Their company, My Wee Highland Hame, produces historically accurate blackhouse dolls houses and “Katy Morag style hames”.
They beat off stiff competition from thousands of senior school pupils across the country, initially winning their regional heat and now taking the Scottish Company of the Year at Glasgow’s Thistle Hotel.
The school’s team of eight pupils won a total of five awards, the most any one company won all evening.
They were awarded Best Presentation; the Organisational Excellence Award; the Star School Award; the Social Enterprise Impact Award; and finally the top one, the Company of the Year.
They will now go on to represent Scotland at the UK Finals next month.
Celebrating their success, 16 year old Managing Director, Morven Sandison, said: “There was an amazing atmosphere all day and it’s been an unforgettable experience.
“We are hugely honoured and excited to have won and looking forward to representing Scotland at the UK finals in London next month. Being part of Young Enterprise has given me more self-confidence and I would definitely consider starting my own business after this experience.”
Their Business Adviser David Knight said, “IT has been a real pleasure working with My Wee Highland Hame. The team itself has developed from a group of disparate students to a team in every sense of the word – with the confidence and knowledge to present their product to politicians, enterprise professionals from across Europe, potential customers and other members of the business community.”
The group follow three other Farr School teams who have made it to the final in the past few years, proving the entreprenurial talent that abounds in north Sutherland.
Currently in their 19th year, the Young Enterprise Scotland Awards celebrate the success of its Company Programme, which is designed to inspire young people to try out their business ideas by starting up small companies as members of a dynamic team.
The young participants have faced a busy year which has seen them juggle traditional classes, essays and exams with sales events, marketing tasks and trading negotiations.
Setting up and running their own company over the course of an academic year allows them to gain valuable business experience and develop tangible skills in all aspects of business operations.
