The Mail on Sunday
JANUARY 18 2009
By NIC PATON
FOR budding entrepreneurs without a credit history, rising capital from the banks can be particularly challenging.
But a scheme launched last week by Shell aims to help 16 to 30-year-olds get their businesses off the ground.
The Anglo-Dutch oil giant will offer five £1,000 cash awards each month this year to young entrepreneurs. The winners will also be able to enter its Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, worth £10,000.
While £1,000 may not seem a lot, it can make all the difference for a start-up, according to Tom Mursell, 19, who launched his careers advice website notgoingtouni.com with £1,000 in savings six months ago.
The Southampton-based careers website for school and college leavers has since picked up £12,000 from an investor and more than £7,000 in sponsorship deals.
He says: ‘I got my funding through a post on an online business forum. It works like a shop front, but it is much cheaper.’
Securing a Shell award could also open doors to the banks. Shell UK chairman James Smith says: ‘The money represents a vote of confidence in your idea, which could encourage banks to help too.’
Shell Young Entrepreneur of 2005 Jamie Murray Wells founded his website Glasses Direct with £1,000 of his student loan in 2004. The firm, based in Baker Street, central London, now turns over £4.5 million.
‘The prize money was great, but the real benefit was getting the Shell brand behind the business,’ he says.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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