Dragons Glen

Scotland's Entrepreneurial Challenge for Business

The challenge: develop a business idea and establish a start-up.

The goal: compete to generate £5k, or more, in just five months to help vulnerable children throughout Scotland.

Why get involved:

• Develop your employees skills set at no cost
• Expose your employees to some of Scotland’s top business leaders
• Inspire, motivate and unite employees through working to help a great cause
• Demonstrate your company’s social responsibility
• Gain new opportunities to network across business sectors
• The perfect entrepreneurial challenge for graduates and trainees

Dragons Glen has raised £491k for vulnerable children since it started in 2012.

“Dragons Glen gives our graduates an opportunity to put learned commercial and personal skills into practice through entrepreneurship.”

- Debbie MacLeod, Graduate Programme Manager, SSE

How does the challenge work?

Register: sign up for your company to enter a Dragons Glen team

• Recruit: select a team of 6-10 employees to be part of your Dragons Glen team
• Kick off: August/September – all teams will be invited to a brief presentation about Children 1st and the work that we do in Scotland, as well as learn about taking part in the Dragons Glen challenge
• Plan: September – Following the launch teams plan their entrepreneurial idea to pitch to the Dragons early October
• Pitch: October – Teams experience the heat of the Dragons Glen when they present a formal pitch and are put under the spotlight by our panel of Dragons
• Challenge kicks off: Mid October – The Dragons will keep in touch with each team, keeping an eye on progress
• Goal achieved: Mid March – The Challenge ends and all funds raised are transferred to Children 1st by the end of March
• Celebrate: April – A celebratory awards ceremony and networking event for teams and key contacts who have supported them.