Budding businessmen and businesswomen at a Benfleet school spent a year developing and running a company, only to give away all their profit to charity.
Cash handover - Lucy Robins, of Business Opportunities for the Physically Handicapped, on Canvey, accepts a cheque from Kelly Carruthers, 14, of Appleton School Picture: ROB BROWNE
The five Year Ten students, from the Appleton School, in Croft Road, gave up their lunchtimes to get involved in the young enterprise scheme.
They sold handmade cards and paid tax and corporate VAT before going on to win an award as the most enterprising company in the area in a young enterprise competition.
The school's business enterprise manager, Gulin Farranche, is delighted by the students' success as thefirst young enterprisers at the school, which recently became a business and enterprise college.
She said: "They worked their socks off. All the work for this project was done during their lunch hours and after school. We didn't let them have any time off their classes.
"There were only five of them and not all of them are doing a business studies GCSE.
"They worked very well together and learned many valuable lessons about how a real business works."
The students made a profit of almost £100. Half of it was donated to Business Opportunities for the Physically Handicapped, on Canvey, and the other half to a national charity for research.
Published Friday July 23, 2004
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