Annual Report and Accounts for the Year Ended 31 December 2013
Annual report and accounts For the year ended 31 December 2013 www.youthbusiness.org About Youth Business International Who we are 2013 highlights Youth Business International is a global In 2013 Youth Business International network of not-for-profit organisations supported more than 14,000 young that help young entrepreneurs build people to start a business, and provided successful and sustainable businesses. entrepreneurship training to nearly 200,000 young people. Our network is dedicated exclusively to supporting under-served young people and is designed to maximise the collaborative The network team’s contribution to this impact of our work. included: The network comprises member We recruited nine new organisations to organisations in 40 countries and a the network, expanding our services for young network team based in London, which is entrepreneurs in Brazil, Chile, Italy, Jordan, responsible for the support and development Mongolia, the Netherlands, Peru, Sweden and of the network. the United Kingdom. The network team is a registered charity and We organised the Global Youth company limited by guarantee, The Prince of Entrepreneurship Summit, bringing Wales Youth Business International Ltd. together 450 experts in youth entrepreneurship. Our role is to facilitate, challenge and enable Youth Business International’s members Through Global Entrepreneurship Week UK, to support ever greater numbers of young we engaged close to 350,000 people and entrepreneurs. were awarded “Country of the Year” by the global organisers. YBI’s proven system of support includes access to finance and a range of locally As a direct result of the network team’s relevant types of non-financial support, fundraising efforts, over half of our including technical training and mentoring.
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