Local secondary schools, who have been taking part in the Premier League Enterprise Challenge, headed to Vitality Stadium on Monday for the challenge’s club heat.
The schools, who have been working hard on creating their unique business idea over the past six weeks, presented to a panel of judges including head of community Steve Cuss, Community Sports Trust trustee Andy Dayus, community senior manager Andrew Battison and disability inclusion development officer Hannah Powis.
Pupils representing Poole High School, Avonbourne and Harewood Colleges, and Winton Academy took to the stage for their five-minute presentation, and question and answer session with the judges, whilst The Bourne Academy’s presentation was shown to the panel digitally.
The students had been working towards this year’s challenge brief, which was to increase the engagement of fans aged 18-23 years old at Vitality Stadium matches.
Speaking about the challenge, head of community Steve Cuss spoke to afcb.co.uk.
“It was very evident through the presentations how hard each of the schools had been working on the Premier League Enterprise Challenge,” he said.
“There were some great ideas and I would like to congratulate all the schools who took part.”
The winning school, who will now go on to represent AFC Bournemouth at the next round of the competition, are Avonbourne College.
The five girls representing both AFC Bournemouth and their school, will continue to work with the Community Sports Trust in the build up to the Regional Heat at Brighton & Hove Albion at the end of January.
