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FEATURE
T
he challenge is simple –
here’s £100, turn it into
£1,000. And by the way,
you can’t keep a penny of
your profits.
It sounds like the sort of project
Lord Sugar would set to the thrust-
ing competitors on TV’s The
Apprentice, which begins a new
run this week.
But the school teams who have
picked up the gauntlet won’t be
hauled over the coals or fired on
the spot if they fail to meet the
mogul’s standards.
Instead ‘dragons’ from the North
Herts business community will be
guiding them as they work in teams
to raise the cash for local good
causes.
The annual Dragons’ Apprentice
Challenge, run by North Herts CVS
and launched at Letchworth’s
Icknield Centre, will run until
March.
Teams drawn from Hitchin Boys’
School, The Priory School in
Hitchin, and Stevenage’s Barnwell
and Barclay schools have signed up
for the project, with good causes
counting on them to come up with
the goods including Pin Green
Community Association, Home-
Start North Herts, Mind in Mid
Herts, Stevenage-based Waste Not
Want Not, Hitchin-based youth
support charity Phase, the Hitchin
group of autism assistance organis-
tion Angels Support and the
Hitchin and district branch of the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
CVS executive director Jacquie
Hime said: “The challenge offers a
win-win opportunity for all those
involved, creating partnerships
between local community groups
and charities, business and young
people, creating a stronger commu-
nity over the long term.”
Sarah Clare of Hitchin fashion
boutique What Sarah Did... will be
a dragon for one of the Hitchin
Boys’ School teams, and she said: “I
am very excited to start work with
my team and charity.
“The welcome event was very
well-organised and informative and
we all left excited and determined
to do right by our chosen charity.”
Other dragons include Hitchin
representatives Mark Malone of
TUS Accountancy Services,
Damian Slade of Hot House Dance
Studio and Carolyn Palmer of
Molly’s tea room, Indu Gidda of
Stevenage-based IT experts Fujitsu,
Lewis Howard of Stevenage’s CJ
Heating & Plumbing, and John
Welch of Letchworth’s Howard
Cottage Housing Association.
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I Representing the Barclay School are Charlie Pattison, Galib Kamali, Kirsten
Eweka, Lewis Flexman and Tony Philips, pictured with teacher Ola Gboyega.
I Raine Simcox
from Angels
Support with The
Priory School’s
co-ordinator Dave
Gaze, pupils Eraklis
Economides and
Jack Boldison
and teacher
Lynne Evans.
I Pictured at the
launch of the
annual event,
left, are Hitchin
photographer
Chloe Turner-
Rowe, Rebecca
of North Herts
CVS with
Mark Malone
and Sarah
Underwood
from TUS
Accountancy
Services.
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