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Greenwich Market - a royal and very hard to sell at market!

As part of my Sell Sell Sell! stage of the Prince’s Trust enterprise programme I am looking at the various markets I could sell at in London. There’s an awesome sounding market coming up in Crystal Palace in the summer, and I've found a couple of others that I think sound like they're worth selling at too. The obvious one for me, however, is Greenwich market. I’ve wandered around this market too many times to remember gazing at the beautiful things people are selling there, c

Tomorrow's Store

Set up in 2013 and tucked away just around the corner from Liverpool Street station, Tomorrow’s Store is a shop that is entirely stocked by young people who have been through The Prince’s Trust Enterprise Programme. The businesses set up by these people with the support of The Prince’s Trust are usually pretty unknown to the general public when they first start out and Tomorrow’s Store gives them an platform to get their products onto the high street in a Central London locat

And so it begins...

Last week I attended the first of the seminars for The Prince's Trust Enterprise Programme. Being the Keen Bean that I am I set off from home really early with my notepad and pencil case, feeling as though I was just about to stat a new school term. I arrived at the centre and entered with trepidation thinking that I would be by far the most ancient person there. I imagined everyone else would be of around 19 years of age and unashamedly trendy. Perhaps all those times of bei

Taking the Plunge: Turning your craft into a business

Hello all! Firstly, thank you so much for visiting my website! Over the past year or so I have been plotting how to turn something I love doing into my own little venture, namely hand embroidering cushions with silly messages to make people smile. I've always been in to crafts but this specific idea came about one Christmas when I wanted to make some really personalised gifts for my family members rather than just flogging out to the shops to buy them some mass produced rubbi