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		<title>Win £50,000 with Barclays One Small Step</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got a great business idea? From start-ups to existing businesses, anyone can pitch for the chance to turn a great idea into an even better reality.
Want to show your support? Do your bit for businesses. Get behind the competition and prepare to vote for your favourite idea.
Ten prizes of £50,000 are on offer from Barclays [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><img class="alignright" title="Barclays" src="https://www.takeonesmallstep.co.uk/Content/img/hdr_enter-barclays-take-one-small-step-competition.png" alt="" width="256" height="113" />Got a great business idea?</strong> From start-ups to existing businesses, anyone can pitch for the chance to turn a great idea into an even better reality.</p>
<p><strong>Want to show your support?</strong> Do your bit for businesses. Get behind the competition and prepare to vote for your favourite idea.</p>
<p>Ten prizes of £50,000 are on offer from Barclays for the best new business pitches from around the UK. You can submit a simple business plan and optional video pitch to judges who will shortlist the best entries to be voted on by the public. Anyone with a website with a large user base, or lots of twitter followers, has got an even better chance of winning!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Enter by 16 May at <a href="https://www.takeonesmallstep.co.uk/">Barclays One Small Step website</a>.</p>
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		<title>Business heroes needed. Desperately.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could you pitch your business skills against others from across the country to see who can raise the most money for Haiti?
 Would you like to make your CV stand out from the crowd?
 
If so, you are just the kind of Business Hero that Save the Children need.
 And that the children affected by [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><img class="alignright" title="Haiti" src="http://www.businessheroes.org.uk/images/stories/haiti/06.jpg" alt="" width="436" height="293" />Could you pitch your business skills against others from across the country to see who can raise the most money for Haiti?</strong></p>
<p><strong> Would you like to make your CV stand out from the crowd?</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>If so, you are just the kind of Business Hero that Save the Children need.</strong></p>
<p><strong> And that the children affected by the earthquake in Haiti need too.</strong></p>
<p>If you enter the Business Heroes Challenge:</p>
<ul>
<li>- You will pitch your business skills against others across the country to see who can raise the most for Haiti.</li>
<li>- You could win up to £500 funding for your business idea from our sponsors <a href="http://www.rb.com/home" target="_blank">Reckitt Benckiser</a> and <a href="http://www.accenture.com/" target="_blank">Accenture</a>.</li>
<li>- You could have the opportunity to work with an experienced mentor from <a href="http://www.accenture.com/" target="_blank">Accenture</a>, <a href="http://group.barclays.com/Home" target="_blank">Barclays</a> or <a href="http://www.ibm.com/uk/en/" target="_blank">IBM</a> to develop your idea.</li>
<li>- You will gain skills and experience to build your CV and to help you stand out from the crowd at job interviews.</li>
<li>- Your ideas and achievements will be visible to companies across the UK who are looking out for great talent.</li>
<li>- You will tangibly help Haitian children who have been tragically affected by the earthquake.</li>
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<p>For the ideas that raise the most money, our sponsors have offered:</p>
<ul>
<li>- An internship for summer 2010 with Save the Children (funded by <a href="http://www.rb.com/home" target="_blank">Reckitt Benckiser</a>) for the business that raises the most.</li>
<li>- A personal career coaching session including CV review, mock interviews and skills sessions for every winning student (provided by <a href="http://www.citibank.co.uk/" target="_blank">Citi</a>).</li>
<li>- A lunch at Barclay&#8217;s Canary Wharf offices for the top 40 fundraisers (provided by <a href="http://group.barclays.com/Home" target="_blank">Barclays</a>).</li>
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<p>Visit the <a href="http://www.businessheroes.org.uk/">Business Heroes website</a> to enter before the closing date of Sunday 7th March 2010.</p>
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