Ingite Y
Real businesses. Real responsibility. Earned ownership.
Ignite Y gives motivated young people the chance to run a real business created by an experienced entrepreneur — not just learn about business in theory.
No salary. No funding. No guaranteed outcome. You earn through the business, and real risk remains.
The simple idea
Some businesses need someone to run them. Some young people want something real to build.
Plenty of young people want to run something real, but do not have a business idea ready to go.
At the same time, experienced entrepreneurs often have good business ideas sitting unused because they are busy building something else.
Ignite Y brings them together.
What Ignite Y is not
Ignite Y is not a job, a course, a funding route, an incubator, an accelerator or a guaranteed business opportunity. You are not paid to take part. You earn only if the business earns. Real risk remains.
How Ignite Y works
Step 1
We find real business opportunities
Experienced entrepreneurs bring forward business opportunities with real commercial potential.
Step 2
We turn them into a Business-in-a-Box
Selected opportunities are shaped into a structured Business-in-a-Box so the operator can focus on running the business, not starting from a blank page.
Step 3
Young operators run them
Selected operators run the business commercially and may earn ownership through delivery over time.
Who Ignite Y is for
Different people come to Ignite Y for different reasons.
Young operators
For young people who want to run a real business, deal with real customers and learn by doing.
Experienced entrepreneurs
Partners
For universities, employability teams and organisations interested in practical routes into enterprise.
For founders with credible business ideas they believe in, but do not currently have time to build.