At this year’s Tycoon Awards and PJEA Graduation Ceremony, Anectote was crowned the 2023 Overall Winners of the Tycoon Enterprise Competition. The Tycoon team from Wycombe Abbey was awarded £1,000 investment by Peter Jones CBE at Hampton Court Palace.

At this year’s Tycoon Awards and PJEA Graduation Ceremony, Leicester College student, Jevean Barryclough was announced as the 2023 winner. Jevean pitched Da Goat Clothing, a business that has turned her love for sewing and upcycled fashion into a successful brand.

The Peter Jones Foundation was delighted to round off a successful day of fundraising on Friday 7th July 2023 to raise £172,000 to support young people in business.

The Peter Jones Foundation has been supporting enterprise and entrepreneurship education for nearly 20 years with over 5,000 young people graduating from our flagship Peter Jones Enterprise Academy (PJEA) programme . With the generous support of the Commercial Education Trust (CET), in 2019, we began a journey to better understand the longer-term impact of our PJEA programme and to develop an alumni programme that gave our graduates ongoing support, post-18, whatever pathway they followed.

Cerys Andrew, a gifted Irish dancer and budding businesswomen has beaten hundreds of contestants to win the coveted title of National Entrepreneur of the Year 2022. This year saw strong competition with many hopefuls looking to receive the £5,000 investment from Peter Jones CBE, star of BBC’s Dragon’s Den.

Sambar Jewellery came out on top as the 2022 overall winners of the Tycoon Enterprise Competition and have been awarded £1,000 to invest in the future of their business.

Four talented young entrepreneurs have earned the chance to pitch their business to star of Dragons’ Den Peter Jones CBE. With a £7,000 business investment up for grabs, and a £10,000 total prize pot, these young founders will take part in a Dragons’ Den style pitch chaired by Peter Jones CBE, and a network of celebrated business figures.

We are delighted to introduce the Peter Jones Foundation’s Youth Panel, which exists to ensure that young people’s voices at the heart of everything we do and helps us to inform and meet our strategic goals.

Last Monday, a team of students from Badminton School, Bristol, were crowned as the overall winners of the Tycoon Enterprise Competition and presented with £1,000 to fund the continued growth of their business, The Citrus Way.

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On Wednesday 5th June, star of Dragons’ Den and renowned entrepreneur, Peter Jones CBE, welcomed celebrities, entrepreneurs and business leaders to the Peter Jones Foundation’s annual Charity Golf Day, held at the exclusive Bearwood Lakes Golf Club.

Peter Jones CBE today announces the eight teams of budding entrepreneurs that have reached the final of the nationwide enterprise competition, Tycoon.

A host of stars including Holly Willoughby, Peter Jones, Frank and Christine Lampard, Leigh Francis and Tej Lalvani were on hand to support TV presenter Phillip Schofield as he hosted a Clay Pigeon Shoot on Friday, raising £120,000 for the Peter Jones Foundation and Shooting Star Chase children’s hospice.

We are thrilled to announce Peter Jones Enterprise Academy graduate and budding entrepreneur Katie Buckingham from Solihull has been shortlisted for the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Award.

Our founder, Peter Jones CBE, said “I would like to wish good luck to all those collecting their GCSE results today – I hope that you get the grades that you deserve.

Flying all the way over from his abode in Italy, Simon Donald swapped the glamorous vineyard of Pescia to share his career and business story with PJEA students at South Essex College.