London Students Showcase Community and Business Ideas in Bid for Funds From Mayor's Fund for London and BE OPEN's City Pitch Project

Organised by the Mayor's Fund for London and BE OPEN, the international think-tank founded by Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist Elena Baturina, City Pitch encourages and helps young Londoners to learn new skills, while making a real difference in their communities.

LONDON, 18/07/2018 (informazione.it - comunicati stampa - istruzione e formazione)

Organised by the Mayor's Fund for London and BE OPEN, the international think-tank founded by Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist Elena Baturina , City Pitch encourages and helps young Londoners to learn new skills, while making a real difference in their communities.

Students from schools across the capital devised socially-minded enterprises, with the final six chosen to pitch their ideas to the -style line-up comprising MFL Chief Executive Matthew Patten , Olga Luzhkova of BE OPEN, Trudy Killcullen of the Jack Petchey Foundation, Jamie McCloskey of snack brand Love Corn and Bilal Khan of the charity and youth empowerment movement WE.

The judges were so impressed with the ideas and presentation skills of each school that they handed out the full £1,500 of funding to every team. The six schools and projects were:

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