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Royal Soaps Step Up

Our Mini Company consists of five Transition year girls. Our We were asked at the start of the year to come up with Mini
Managing Directors are Kate Agaba and Hannah McHugh, Comapny ideas. We thought long and hard about this and
our Production Manager is Rebecca Marsden, our Purchasing finally after many arguments we finally came up with Step Up
Manager is Rebecca Nesbitt and Rebecca Wood is our Marketing ‘The Electric Tractor Step’ to help older farmers with mobility
manager . problems to enter and exit their tractors. Our Mini Company
We set up the Mini company as we were interested in the is made up of 4 people, William Ebbitt, Darragh Greenan, Paul
handmade soap market. We set up the company to make Young and Stuart Bell.
hygienic, durable and appealing products. We released a We came up with the idea of ‘The Electric Tractor Step’ as we
questionnaire to some of the students in our school to find out wanted to provide farmers with a quick and easy solution to
what scents they would like in soap. their problems. For advertising we attended a local craft fair,
We ordered soap base, essential oils and moulds. These were local livestock marts aswell as the Q8 Cavan Machinery Show.
ordered from online websites like Amazon and Ebay and also We were also interviewed by the Anglo Celt who featured us in
bought materials from local shops. the farm focus section of their newspaper.
We started experimenting with the ingredients straight away On the 4th of March we attended the Cavan Enterprise Awards
when the products arrived, and figured what methods would in the Slieve Russell Hotel, we won this competition and we now
work out. We made lavender, rose and lemon scented soap. In have to represent Cavan in Croke Park on the 22nd of April.
some soap of our soap we added real dried lavender, oatmeal We were also picked to represent The Royal in the Junior
and lemon zest. As soon as the soaps were made we left it in the Achievement Awards in Monaghan Institute on the 24th of
fridge for half an hour. March which we also won and we now have to represent
We set up a Facebook and Instagram page to advertise our Monaghan, Cavan and Louth in Dublin on the 13th and 14th of
products. May.
We packaged them in various ways, with cellophane, brown Overall our Mini Company was
paper etc. a great success and we plan
We sold our products at the school craft fair and at the Christmas to continue with it after this
year. We have learned great
craft fair in Moynehall in Cavan. We attracted customers of all Communication and Social
ages and both genders, we made many sales. skills due to the many events
We attended the Cavan Enterprise awards in the Slieve Russell we attended .
Hotel. We displayed our products in front of a panel of judges. We would like to thank
They were very impressed by our hard work and dedication. We Mr.Robertson, Ms. Argue,
were grateful to compete amongst such a high standard of talent. Mr.Foudy and Mr.Patterson for
Over the year we learned great lessons which improved our all their help throughout the
communication, teamwork and organisation skills, and we also year.
really enjoyed our project. Step Up is to be continued.......

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