SuperPudding

Hello,

I've had a pretty eventful week. Spoken at three conferences, won an award and organised another couple of weeks of tastings.

On Thursday, I spoke at a big education conference in London (before flying back to Edinburgh to speak at a similar event). The topic was 'enterprise in education', something that I am quite passionate about. As a young entrepreneur still passing through the education system, I guess I'm a good position to give pointers on where improvements can be made to help others become more enterprising.

I don't have many major criticisms of the education system but there are a few things that I think are important for the policymakers to think about when trying to create a 'culture of enterprise' in Britain. There's an article on the BBC News website about what I said, if you are interested.

BBC News Website

After these two speeches, I went along to 'The Outstanding Young Persons of the World Awards'. I won an award in the Scottish Economic/Enterprise section, alongside Michelle Mone (of the 'Ultimo' bra). TOYP is a worldwide competition and previous winners (of the global round) include Elvis and Jackie Chan. There were a lot of inspirational people at the ceremony in Edinburgh and I was, obviously, delighted to be given an award.

We all had a lovely meal overlooking Edinburgh Castle, chatting about all of the amazing stories that had led to everyone being given awards. My favourite part of the meal was a 'Blueberry and Blackcurrant SuperJam sponge mille-fieulle with a Raspberry and Cranberry SuperJam coulis'. The photo above is of the chef, Joe, with myself.