The Scraptore Committee were delighted to have Ravi and Oscar from Southampton University present a business plan this week for Team Building Days.
Scrapstore's mission is to provide communities with access to low cost materials, particularly disadvantaged communities. So that this can continue to happen in the future, the students (including Jayme who unfortunately couldn't make the meeting) have been exploring ways to generate an alternative income for the store that will subsidise membership fees and keep costs down.
The result is a great new business opportunity for a practicing Artist to work on behalf of the store offering local businesses a Team Building Workshop 'with a difference'. Many businesses are looking to be more green these days and the students are confident that our scrap materials will have an uncanny ability to disarm even the most professional staff team.
The students are studying an MSc in Strategic Entrepreneurship and came to work with Scrapstore as part of a new pilot placement scheme for the School of Management.
However, the presentation and the report that the students put together was all on top of their coursework. Word has it that they put in a 13 hour day around the deadline for their coursework just so they could give us our very own report and spreadsheet tool. So we'd like to say a very big thank you to the students for their hard work and commitment as it's a vision for the store that we've been struggling to implement by ourselves. Now to make it happen!
