Candle business helps bright sparks scoop award and trip to Goa
Pompey star Linvoy Primus has rewarded six budding young entrepreneurs with a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Goa.
The annual Faith and Football Social Enterprise and Business Challenge Award has this year gone to a group of talented young girls from St Edmunds Catholic School, Portsmouth.
For their candle and night-light business - Faith & Flame - Libbie Beverley, Shannon Grogan, Georgia Somerset, Cydney Nixon, Millie Jeram and Lily O'Flynn were crowned overall winners of this year's challenge.
The group had to create a product from scratch, and successfully market and sell their idea.
Six teams from St Edmund's entered, but they were the only one to make it this far.
Their school's librarian, Heather Shorter, worked with the girls on their business and said they were astonished when the result was announced.
'It was just amazing,' she said. 'One of the girls was actually shaking she was so surprised, but they deserve it, they've all worked really hard.
'Now they are all just absolutely over the moon, and so exited about their trip to Goa.
'I'm very proud of all of them because there were tough moments during the project and they really pulled it all together brilliantly.'
Linvoy Primus, pictured left, who heads up the Faith and Football charity, presented the young people with their award.
He said: 'The skills that these young people displayed in running their Faith and Flame business really impressed the judges.
'It was their positive outlook in overcoming challenges and turning them into opportunities that helped them to win.'
The Social Enterprise and Business Challenge encourages young people from Portsmouth secondary schools to form and create a business from scratch and to market and sell a product or service to raise funds for the charity's work.
Giving presentations in schools they tried to motivate young people to come up with fresh new business ideas.
This year's businesses ranged from a computer-based football game, buying and reselling jewellery, a bottled water company to a grow your own marigold kits.
All the profits raised during the challenge will go to provide food, clothing and support to very young children in other countries that would otherwise be left to fend for themselves on the streets.
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