BARS TO BUSINESS
PROJECT
Getting involved with Bars to Business gave me the confidence to get working
Not every prisoner wants to be an entrepreneur, but entrepreneurial competencies such as creative problem solving and taking the initiative, not only help people to start their own businesses, they help boost employability generally. Bars to Business develops entrepreneurial competencies in prison leavers, so that they can leave prison and be successful in whatever it is they choose.
Over a 4 week course, prisoners recognise a small business idea, develop the necessary entrepreneurial competencies to realise this idea and produce a simple business plan to effectively communicate their idea.
PITCHING FOR A FUTURE
To conclude the course, prisoners step out of their comfort zone, adopt the attitudes they have developed over the previous 4 weeks and deliver a pitch to an audience of family, friends, senior prison staff and business leaders. This concluding event consolidates their learning and gives them a profound sense of achievement that previously they would not have thought possible.
