Micro-Tyco: ‘Inspiring the Leaders our World Deserves’

Micro-Tyco 2011 brought together 550 teams from schools, colleges, universities and businesses from across the country and challenged them each to grow £1 seed capital into as much money as possible in just four weeks. One month later this initial investment of £550 resulted in an astounding return of £106,882.

Micro-Tyco is designed to release entrepreneurial talent across all age groups. It's unique combination of inspiration, world class business mentorship, positive peer pressure and ethics produced incredible results once again in 2011 and has contributed to WildHearts being taught as a ‘Live Case Study’ at Babson College Massachusetts, the World’s top school for entrepreneurship. Micro-Tyco 2011 ‘s winning team was Deloitte, who turned their £1 seed capital into an incredible £19,008.72. Second was St Joseph's Primary School of Aberdeen, who's team of 10 year olds generated £9527.37 to beat every other school and take second place overall. Third place went to Mossneuk Primary of East Kilbride, who transformed their own £1 micro-loan into £3743.96. Fourth place was taken by the SCDI, who generated £3678.70.  Micro-Tyco received further endorsement when the winners were invited to a celebratory dinner at the home of Scotland’s first self-made billionaire, Sir Tom Hunter (pictured above).

All money generated through Micro-Tyco has been invested by WildHearts in Micro-Finance in 21 countries around the globe, taking Micro-Tyco participants on a journey from dynamic wealth creators to global ethical investors. WildHearts believe that by associating business success with helping others, Micro-Tyco will inspire the leaders our world deserves.

Videos
We have captured the magic of Micro-Tyco in a series of videos from our 2011 teams. Funny, compelling and inspiring, let our Micro-Tycos tell you how the challenge transformed them. Click a link below to chose a video or select from the menu above:

"Micro-Tyco made it easy and natural to enhance and nurture the type of business skills Deloitte wants all our people to develop." Paul Copland, Deloitte.
"It doesn't matter how much money you have, but how much imagination you have". Peter, 11, St Joseph's Primary School.
"Micro-Tyco has changed my whole outlook and my future. I feel more confident I could get a job now." Jamie, 15, excluded from school and member of Universal Connections youth group.
"I don't know what it is, I hate maths but I love counting money!" Christopher, 9, Mossneuk Primary School.
‘Micro-Tyco is a great way of developing your team and developing new ideas to enhance the productivity of your organisation.’ Vince McKeown Director SCDI

You can view more fantastic Micro-Tyco videos here.

Press
Micro-Tyco features extensively in the national press, including:

Times Educational Supplement (TES), 27th January 2012. Online.
Times Educational Supplement (TES), 6th January 2012. PDF. Online.
The Herald, 21st December 2011. PDF. Online.
The Press and Journal, 19th December 2011. PDF.
Scotland on Sunday, 24th March 2011. Online.
Times Educational Supplement (TES), 28th January 2011. PDF. Online.

Find out more about how the Micro-Tyco challenge works here. If you're ready to sign up now email us at info@wildheartsinaction.org
and a member of the WildHearts team will be in touch immediately to get your team registered.