Here's a list of the major events in this year's competition:

• Launch Event, Xcel Centre, Newton Aycliffe - Date: 3 November 2011.
• Challenge 1,  Building a Business Team, one day challenge:
  • Bishop Auckland College 16 November
  • East Durham College 17 November.
    Challenge 1 Building A Business Team.pdf
• Challenge 2*, Our Business,
  • submission deadline - 12 Noon 20 January 2012.
• Challenge 3*, Developing The Product
  • 1 or 2 February
  • Rivergreen Centre, Aykley Heads, Durham, DH1 5TS 
    Challenge 3 Developing The Product.pdf
• Challenge 4*, Advertise and Flog It,
  • submission deadline - 12 Noon 27 April 2012
• Challenge 5, The Cash, 
  • w/c 14 May 2012.
  • Durham University
     
• Challenge 5*, Annual Budget Plan
  • submission deadline - 12 noon 1 June 2012.
    
• Challenge 6, The Presentations, one day challenge
  • 3 and 4 July 2012
  • Thorn Academy of Light, Spennymoor
     
• Awards Dinner, Xcel Centre, Newton Aycliffe
  • 6 July 2012.

* All challenge submissions must be received by us, no later than 12 noon on the relevant due date.