Young entrepreneurs show their wares

An array of twenty or so different businesses show that Staffordshire youngsters have got business nouse…

I visited the Garrick today to see a trade event where 16 and 17 year olds from local schools were showing off their business ideas.

All sorts of things from celebrity cookery books to novel ways of encouraging people to save money via money boxes you have to actually break to get the coins out.

It was all part of this year’s Young Enterprise scheme which is a charity encouraging young people to learn practical business skills. Very apt in the difficult business climate at present. Entrants have had to build small businesses from scratch, working out how to fund the start up, look after cash flow and, in the end produce a financial profit.

As someone who enjoys cooking, I found one company particularly interesting. Called Simply Cooking, they’d put together a simple recipe book which had also got special ideas in it from well known celebrity cooks. They’d had great success in getting some pretty heavy weight people to contribute, free of charge, to the book.

You can find out more or buy one of their recipe books for a fiver at simplycooking@live.co.uk.

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