There is a great entrepreneurship program available for students 29 years of age and younger returning to high school, college or university in the fall
Jill Roote is the Manager and Business Consultant with the Saugeen Shores Business Enterprise Centre.
Roote says there is a program called Summer Company and there is three thousand dollars is available in government money to start up and run a business for the summer.
Roote says successful candidates receive fifteen hundred dollars in start up costs, and then the other half is given at the end of the summer.
The business must be run successfully, a journal has to be complete, and a cash flow has to be operated.
They also of course, keep all profits made.
Help is available during the summer at all stages of the business from business training to marketing and accounting.
The deadline to apply is May 4th online on the Summer Company website.
Applications are reviewed as they are received; it is a competitive process with limited space and funding.
Roote says seven students in Bruce County utilized the program last summer.
Some businesses included, jewellery and beach bag making/selling, lawncare, and lessons from dance to horseback riding.