Shell LiveWIRE is a UK-wide enterprise scheme to help support young entrepreneurs (aged 16–30) into business.

Shell Livewire is a Shell

Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...

 Social Investment programme and , Shell LiveWIRE was launched in the Strathclyde area of Scotland in 1982, before being rolled out across the rest of the UK in 1985.

Shell LiveWIRE offers two business awards; the monthly £1,000 Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards and annual £10,000 Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

of the Year Award.