Boys Collect ‘Making a Difference’ Challenge Awards

A group of Merchant Taylors’ Year 10 boys visited the University of Liverpool Management School on Tuesday 25th April to collect the awards they had won for the ‘Making a Difference’ challenge. The project, which invites schools to present a business case for philanthropic efforts in the local community, involved synthesising marketing, advertising and budgeting elements in a presentation judged ultimately by the Director of Studies for Marketing at the Management School. Three groups won prizes, with the team led by Noah Williams and Scott Thomson securing the prestigious Directors’ Prize.

The competition was run through our Middle School enrichment programme, World Tomorrow Today and Mr Simpson, who runs the World Tomorrow Today programme, commented that the awards were ‘a vindication of our intention to have boys acquire skills that are wholly essential in the world of work at a young age and to offer them the opportunity to interact with other institutions and organisations. To this extent I am very grateful to the Management School for giving up so much time to provide feedback on the projects submitted’.

Below is a photograph of representatives from the three winning teams.