Teachers and high school students from Manchester, Salford and Trafford met United star Carrick and business people from the club at Old Trafford. The event was part of this year’s Premier League Places for Players scheme.

The young people put questions to expert speakers about business and education, and were presented with their end of programme certificate for the OCR accredited course by the football star.

Speakers on the day included Chief Operating Officer at Manchester United – Michael Bolingbroke – who detailed his own business background and how the Enterprise project can help young people to follow in his footsteps.

Manchester United Foundation has received funding from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) to run the Enterprise Academy for two years. The project aims to give youngsters an insight into the running of an exciting multi-national business.

It educates pupils on the inner workings of a football club, explaining that the occupations within the business stem far greater than the 11 players on the pitch.

The Premier League Enterprise Academy was originally developed by Middlesbrough Football Club and taken nationally as an Enterprise initiative. The project is a national initiative being rolled out to all clubs within the Premier League as part of a formal agreement between Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Premier League and forms part of the Premier League Creating Chances umbrella.

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