In 2012 Pants to Poverty in conjunction with Gazelle Global orchestrated the Pantrepreneur Challenge which saw 60 teams from across the UK compete to design, produce and distribute their own range of Olympic-themed underpants. My team Dynamic Designs came together to run our own socially, environmentally and financially profitable business. Reaching the finals we...

2012, Sheffield, 3,000 guests and 35 high-profile speakers attended MADE – the country’s biggest and most inspiring two-day festival/master class for entrepreneurship. I was invited as a student/budding entrepreneur guest speaker to take part in a panel discussion and debate how teaching and learning needs to change to ensure that students have the entrepreneurial...

Youth Enterprise Live 2012 – Youth Enterprise Live – Earls Court Delivering a workshop at Youth Enterprise Live to research and demonstrate that creativity comes in many forms and can be taught and learned quickly in a fun way. The session was tailored to encourage and support creative thinking with the aim of showing...

In conjunction with Punch Records and the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) I was commissioned to write 20 creative audio description pieces to promote access to the arts for Blind and partially sighted people. The audio descriptions were for images from Vanley Burke’s exhibition ‘By The Rivers of Birmingham’ which was displayed...

As a result of winning the Pantrepreneur competition in 2012, my former team members and I embarked on a 10 day trip travelling and working in India. For an overview of the experience read the attached link or watch the film ‘India top prize’. Read attached article in Huffington post http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/shaun-welch/from-pants-to-poverty-lit_b_2271114.html India top prize

Talent Navigator Enterprise Event was an entrepreneurial event inviting business men and women alike to generate and suggest ideas and facilities for the development of a new business hub in the heart of Walsall which will be in fully functioning in summer 2013. As part of the event they held a competition in which...

Guest speaker and performer for the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) at Opening Up Creative Culture events April 2013 As part of RNIBs innovative ground breaking project I delivered talks and presentations at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum on the topic of creative audio description. Alongside these activities a film for the ‘Opening...

Guest speaker at Seven Hills Master Class addressing communication skills and knowledge share between service providers and service users. As a panel member I spoke about my skills and experiences and shared a few ideas and techniques on how to engage students creatively.

Guest speaker at the Youth Employment Convention held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre May 2013. The Youth Employment Convention initiated the debate on youth employment issues and what kinds of obstacles and accelerators existed to employment for youth today. As a panel member I spoke about my experiences and highlighted contemporary issues...

Pantrepreneur finals June 2013 – Spitalfieleds Market London Guest speaker at the Pantrepreneur finals 2013. Here I delivered a spoken word piece outlining my experience as an entrepreneur and using the latest presentation software for an interactive storyboard experience I shared my journey and experiences in India with an audience at Spitalfieleds Market.