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Young businesswoman and Kirk Balk pupil Jade Bryan is now baking speciality cakes after her cupcakes took off in a big way.
Jade, 16, turned over £4,500 from a starting figure of just £25 when she launched ‘Jade’s Heavenly Buns’ and started selling the cupcakes at school.
She said: “I’m not selling as many cupcakes at school now as they’re on a healthy eating drive but at the moment I’m working on a special cake – it’s a design of kittens and two balls of wool. The order is for a teacher.”
Jade, of Hawshaw Lane, Hoyland, won last year’s Entrepreneur of the Year award. She has now invested in specialist equipment such as a ‘ball’ cake mould which she’s using on her latest commission.
She is also entering this year’s I Know I Can Big Challenge in Barnsley - a competition encouraging young people to start their own businesses. Her idea this time is making gift baskets with items like decoupage tiles, a new skill she has learned.
Jade said about winning her Proud of Barnsley award: “I did get a lot of people I know congratulating me about the award and I have had a fair few orders from people who saw it.”
Jade has a place at Thomas College, Rotherham, and is going to study maths, further maths and business studies.
Her mum Nicky Bryan said: “She is always busy and coming up with new ideas.”
Calling all forward thinking young entrepreneurs, if you’ve watched your business idea turn into a business reality and you’d like to recognised for your success you should enter the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.
This award is aimed at start up and established businesses where their owners are under the age of 25 and are displaying the talent, creativity and business acumen to be a real business star of the future.
The following points are intended as guidelines only, to help you with your nomination.
- Track record of entrepreneurial achievement (in current and/or previous businesses).
- Strong financial performance in current business.
- Evidence that you’re building a scaleable business or brand.
- Innovation in your technology, product, service or sector.
- Personal ambition and vision.
- Positive personal leadership of your own business and workforce.
Category Sponsor
Haywood & Padgett
The Bakery
Shawfield Road
Carlton Industrial Estate
Carlton
Barnsley S71 3HS
Telephone: 01226 770011
www.haywood-padgett.co.ukHaywood & Padgett is Barnsley’s own grown scone bakery, starting 29 years ago in a small bakery in Wombwell. It is now the UK’s largest scone manufacturer for the supermarket giants Tesco, ASDA, Sainsbury’s, Morrison’s, Iceland and many more.
Over the years the bakery has grown. Starting as a ‘good idea’ by local lads who knew how to bake a good scone, Haywood & Padgett has become a reputable business with its own purpose built bakery on Carlton Industrial Estate which employs 120 Barnsley residents.
Owner, Wayne Padgett, still works in the bakery every day alongside his employees ensuring a high standard scone product for his customers.
Haywood & Padgett’s scones can now be enjoyed world-wide at 30,000 feet in the air by everyone taking flights with Virgin Airlines and Thompsons.
Haywood & Padgett’s scones can now be enjoyed world-wide at 30,000 feet in the air by everyone taking flights with Virgin Airlines and Thompsons.
A little closer to home Haywood & Padgett’s scones will soon be available in Costa Coffee houses nation-wide.
Wayne believes that every one of his 120 staff all play a vital role in the production of his expanding scone business – what started as a rolling pin and scone cutter has grown into a successful business keeping its roots in Barnsley. Employing local people helps gives Wayne a strong sense of pride in his staff’s achievements.
Said Wayne: “We are really pleased to support and to be involved in the Proud of Barnsley Awards for the second year running.
“This category is especially close to my heart, having had firsthand experience of what it feels like to be a young entrepreneur with dreams and aspirations of success.”
I’m proud to be from Barnsley and to put the town on the map across the world through business enterprises.
Wayne Padgett
Managing Director
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