Young entrepreneurs asked to light up Christmas

Town centre officials are challenging the town’s young people to come up with a new idea for a Christmas event in the town centre.

Rotherham Borough Council’s marketing and events team have teamed up with enterprise education programme Rotherham Ready to come up with a challenge to inspire young entrepreneurs to get the town centre buzzing at Christmas.

They are asking young people to dream up an idea for an event that could be run in town on one of the Saturdays in December.

Young people need to create an exciting concept, back up their ideas with some market research and produce a budget, keeping the event costs within £3,000.

The winner of the most inspiring idea will receive a VIP invite to the Christmas Lights Switch-on evening on November 17, which falls during Global Entrepreneurship Week.

They will meet the celebrity guests and other personalities and may have an opportunity to work alongside the events team to make their event concept, or elements of it, a reality.

Marie Hayes, the counci’s marketing and events manager, said: “Children are our future and we have some fantastically talented and inspired young people in

Rotherham who have the drive and imagination to help create some truly fantastic events here in the borough.

“This is an opportunity to gain invaluable insight into event organisation and management and I hope many individuals and teams take part.”

For more information, email [email protected] or call 01709 336948.