If you attended the recent switching on of Chesham's Christmas lights, you might have caught a glimpse of how Wycombe Grange is improving the lives of young people. For nestled within the market that evening was a stall run by students from the Buckinghamshire pupil referral unit selling Christmas decorations, jewellery and other goods they had made during their vocational courses.
The stall is part of Wycombe Grange's efforts to offer its students a taste of entrepreneurialism. "We are trying to make all the vocational activities enterprising," says head teacher Debra Rutley. "We have a couple of bank accounts that the students are learning to manage. The sales they make go into a central fund and with that money we do activities with the young people so they can clearly see that there's a bit of profit-sharing for them."
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