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FIRST YEAR MINI COMPANIES

‘Bake Me Happy’ is a Mini Crafty Cuts
Company ran by Matthew
Murphy, Ben Speares, “Crafty Cuts” is a first year
Steven Soden, Tosin mini company which was
Elegbede, Matthew Gilmore & Jack Gilmore. We set up set up by Ben Reilly, Jamie Dugdale, Katie Dunne, Katie
the Mini Company in October and since then we have Griffith and Gabrielle Ezudo. We came up with the idea of
done multiple bake sales at school, we have gone to rustic Christmas craft products with a recycled theme. Our
a craft fair and we also came 2nd place in the Cavan products consist of Christmas trees made from recycled
Student Enterprise Awards. pallets complete with handmade decorations, wooden
The six of us would stay back every second Thursday to tea light holders and hand painted recycled bottles.
bake our fresh products with the help of Ms. Glynn and Our products are mainly Christmas orientated so we knew
Ms. Argue. We much enjoyed getting the support from that our products would have to be sold before Christmas.
the pupils and the teachers as they kept coming back! We attended the craft fair in the Backyard on the 5th
Jack, Matthew Gilmore and Tosin, being boarders would December 2015. We also attended the Virginia Christmas
decorate the buns every Thursday night. Craft fair the next day. Our combined sales for those two
days were €680.50.
Overall we found this small company great fun and
taught us how to manage our time, money and have a Our products were displayed in some local shops which
nice professional approach. generated some sales for us. We also sold some of our
products online through our facebook page. Further sales
We also had a brownie mix and recipe in a jar for sale were made to family and friends.
at craft fairs and at the competition and the customers
and the judges thought it was very original and a great We are very pleased to have made a healthy profit and we
idea. We’d like to thank Mr. Robertson and Ms. Argue for will be donating some of our profits to charity.
making this happen and to Ms. Glynn and Mrs. Hunter for We were awarded 1st prize in the junior category in the
helping us bake and decorate our lovely products Cavan Student Enterprise Awards along with €500 prize
money.
Thank You
We are currently preparing for the national finals in Croke
Matthew Murphy. Park which will take place on the 20th of April 2016. We
will be competing against other first year mini companies
from all over Ireland.
It has been a very worthwhile experience and we have
learned a lot about what is involved in running a business.
We would like to thank Mr. Robertson, Ms. Argue, our
families and friends for all their help and encouragement
over the past year.

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