Junior Entrepreneurs Win Enterprise Award

Internet entrepreneurs from a Hale Barns school have been crowned Trafford Young Enterprise champions.

The Altrincham business community embraced the students' new recruitment website which aims to match primarily part-time job opportunities with candidates within the 16-18 age bracket.

The Job Scouts website was the brainchild of 12 business studies students at St Ambrose College and addresses their own concerns about the job market.

Already 11 employers have posted adverts on the site, and 200 teenage candidates are ready to pick up the work.

Managing director Daniel Hetherington, 16, from Timperley, explained:

"It was our colleague Daniel Sloane's idea which we developed after a brain storming session. It was then important to define business roles in market research, web development, operations, finance, sales and marketing and then go out and sell the idea."

The St Ambrose team won both the Trafford Company of the Year and the Best Presentation, awarded by the Mayor of Trafford, Cllr Judith Lloyd.

They now have plans to further develop their idea and hope to win the Greater Manchester and North West rounds before going on to the national finals.

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