29/05/2026
Over the past few months, I’ve had the privilege of supporting Young Enterprise in Scotland behind the scenes across strategic conversations, stakeholder engagement and the events surrounding this year’s Company Programme Finals at Hampden, which I attended on Wednesday. What stood out throughout wasn’t just the talent and ambition of the young people involved (which was incredible!) but the genuine willingness from businesses, educators, partners and communities to come together around a shared purpose.
The conversations at the roundtable highlighted that collaboration alone isn’t enough - there needs to be a stronger integration between education, business, government and communities if the outcomes for young people across Scotland are to be improved. And perhaps most importantly, we need to stop designing things for young people and start building more with them.
There was such honesty, energy and openness in the room and it genuinely felt like the start of something bigger. Grateful to have played a small part in it and huge credit to Nicky and the Young Enterprise Scotland team for creating the space for these discussions to happen.