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Posted: Monday 17 May 2010

Social Entrepreneurs are Runners-Up in National Competition

One Sugar by TAMU

Budding social entrepreneurs at Hutchesons' have received one of only two 'Highly Commended' awards in the nationwide One Big Idea competition. The Hutchesons' team of nine pupils in S4, part of the School's 'J8' group, marketed a product called "One Sugar", says S6 pupil James Wilde, with the hope that it would generate enough wealth within the country of Malawi to manufacture 'oral rehydration solutions' , which the World Health Organisation consider the most cost-efficient treatment for many water-borne diseases.

One SugarOne Big Idea was launched by the Minister for Young Citizens and Youth Engagement, Dawn Butler on Social Enterprise Day in November 2009, to continue the success of the One Water product and create the next One branded, ethical product which would directly improve the lives of thousands of people in Malawi and could be stocked in Co-operative stores across the UK. They posed the question: "Do you have an idea that could improve the lives of others?" Young people all over the UK posted their ideas on the One website.

Entries included cereal bars to fund nutrition projects, seeds to fund crops, eggs to supply families with flocks of hens, plasters to support medical help, light bulbs to generate solar panels, tea, honey, greetings cards and many more highly original ideas.

The winners, from Bushey Meads Secondary School in Hertfordshire, created One Less Infection, a range of branded plasters.

The Hutchesons' pupils - Katie Barbour, Kirsty Gray, Caitlin Jeffrey, Stephanie Kerr, Jane MacRae, Iain McDermott, Douglas Oates, Emma O'Rourke and Hannah Todd - are shortly to receive their award from the Global Ethics company that markets the One products.

 

 

 

 

 

Tags: Academic Success, Community, Ethos, J8

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