Tenner tycoon chips in with a meal treat

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The Radclyffe School’s Year 7 student Hannah Kenyon with residents Jack Bradley, Hilda Ferrier, Dora Munro and Ruth Gwennett at Yew Tree Residential Care Home, Chadderton.

Young entrepreneur uses profits to buy fish supper for old folk

YOUNG entrepreneurs at The Radclyffe School showed both business savvy and community concern when they took part in the Make Your Mark With a Tenner competition.

Students from Year 7, 8 and 9 on the Gifted and Talented programme used a £10 loan to bring enterprise ideas to life.

Year 7 pupil Hannah Kenyon won the Most Social Impact category.

She used her £10 to create a gift basket which was then raffled off, making a £43 profit.

The kind-hearted youngster then splashed the cash on a chippy supper for all 16 residents at Yew Trees Residential Care Home, Chadderton.

Qasim Hussain and Danyaal Hassan, from Year 8, made the biggest financial gains, bringing in £95 profit from their car-washing scheme.

They won the Most Profit on £10 category and donated the cash to charity Wateraid.

Students Sarah Callender, Lucy Vickers, Rachel Cox, Saadiqah Begum, Annam Ali and Rimsha Irshad took home the Best Business Idea title.

The Year 8 youngsters organised a classroom fete each lunchtime for a week and made £79.60 from the differently-priced activities, which they divided between charities Sport Relief, Multiple Sclerosis and Cancer Research UK.

Lisa Croft, enterprise co-ordinator, said it was the first time the school had taken part in the national competition but staff were impressed with the ideas.

She said: “Hannah had such a simple idea but it made a great difference to the community, and the car-washing made a huge profit.

“Young people can get quite a bad press but there are a lot of nice young people who are ready to help the community.”