Padiham pupils grind out coffee business (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Padiham pupils grind out coffee business
9:30pm Tuesday 5th June 2012 in News
Pop Up Farms’ Paul Clarke with Richard Redfern, 11
ENTERPRISING schoolchildren are ‘grinding out’ results by creating a ‘pop-up’ coffee shop to sell refreshments outside football matches.
The pupils at St Leonard’s, in Padiham, have designed and commissioned a prototype of a pedal cycle which will also double up as a unit to sell hot beverages.
A company called The Thoughtful Coffee Company has been set up and they hope to arrange meetings with Burnley FC bosses soon to discuss opportunities to sell their wares next season.
The school will also look at other suitable places where the children’s wares could be sold.
Headteacher Julie Bradley said the exercise was educational in a number of ways. She said: “There are so many facets that the children touch on.
“They have designed the vehicle and a prototype is being developed by a designer in Vancouver Island, Canada. We have a partnership with a school in Uganda so there’s a desire to enter into trade to source the coffee beans directly from them.
“Those in the group have learned about the commodities markets and done research on the cost of a cup of coffee in the high street chains. I’m thrilled at their appetite to learn more and the spirit of enterprise they are showing. Because the venture’s called Thoughtful Coffee they’ve even been saying people will not be having a drink, but rather a ‘think’.”
The group is being advised by Paul Clarke of Todmorden based company, Incredible edible.
Comments(7)
Excluded again
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7:36am Wed 6 Jun 12
Kids do something positive - there just has to be a reason to slag them off, hasn't there?
2 for 5p
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1:50pm Wed 6 Jun 12
ste.g
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4:42pm Wed 6 Jun 12
2 for 5p wrote:dont pay vat on coffee
I would like to know were the profits are going, no doubt it will be to the school, even though they get there funding from LEA.
They would also be charging VAT and tax otherwise they have unfair compitition over the other traders
radical radish
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10:48pm Wed 6 Jun 12
It is simply not true
Pop-Up-Farm
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5:07pm Thu 14 Jun 12
seeds for development
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11:53am Fri 15 Jun 12
2 for 5p wrote:The profits will be returned to the source of the coffee - the farming communities in northern Uganda that grow it. People who are recovering from a 20 year war that destroyed their livelihoods, homes and their lives. By drinking Thoughtful Coffee, you will be supporting the local economy but also people the world seems to have forgotten.
I would like to know were the profits are going, no doubt it will be to the school, even though they get there funding from LEA.
They would also be charging VAT and tax otherwise they have unfair compitition over the other traders
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9:42pm Tue 5 Jun 12
They would also be charging VAT and tax otherwise they have unfair compitition over the other traders