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Budding entrepreneurs sell T-shirts at Portobello
Students taking inspiration from the London skyline made over ã200 at Portobello Market after setting up their own T-shirt printing business.
The 12-18-year-olds were at the market on Saturday taking part in a 'business battle' set up in a joint initiative by the charity, MyBnk, Kensington and Chelsea Council and the Earls Court youth group.
They were given advice on how to design and market a product and then sell it. And it seems their designs, which featured iconic buildings and images from the capital, caught the imagination of shoppers, who bought over 30.
MyBnk's programmes combine finance and enterprise, providing young people with practical and fun activities developing essential skills such as budgeting and planning ahead.
The charity's founder Lil Lapenna said:"While our generation plays catch up with personal finance, struggling with record levels of debt and perhaps for the first time budgeting, we are helping to develop a financially competent and clued up society of savers, spenders, entrepreneurs and investors.
I was born and raised in Kensington & Chelsea and know first-hand the cheek and jowl nature of our area where prosperity and poverty can live side-by-by-side."
Paula Mendoca, youth participation coordinator for the council, said:"We need projects like the MyBnk Business Battle, as young people in this borough are excited about the idea of setting up their own business and actually putting it into practice."
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