Inspire Magazine - Summer 2016

Yvonne Richards
Gemini Careers Guidance
GeminiCareersGuidance
@gmail.com
Faith Marufu
Fifi’s Happy
Tots
Mark Roberts
Fallowfield Secret Garden
www.fallowfieldsecretgarden.wordpress.com
FallowfieldSecretGarden
thefallowfieldsecretgarden
@gmail.com
As a newly Ofsted-registered childminder,
Faith is hoping to create a ‘home from
home’ for children in her care. She has
gained lots of ideas on how she can get
her business off the ground.
“The guys were all so friendly and
just made everything so nice and
straightforward. They’ve given me
so much confidence, I’m actually like,
‘I can do this’.”
After setting up the Fallowfield Secret
Garden back in 2012, founder Mark is now
keen to take it to the next level by turning it
into a social enterprise. His aim is to start
generating a profit so that he can employ
people by selling wooden garden furniture
and children’s toys crafted at the garden
centre and to deliver training to other
community groups and organisations.
“The PopUp Business School has really
given us a lot of inspiration and helped
break down barriers as we try to bring
in extra skills and make the project
more sustainable. There are plenty of
opportunities for people who want to get
involved in helping us to become a social
enterprise so please get in touch.”
Kenisha Ricketts
Lil Brightsparkz
Brightsparkz
As a newly Ofsted-registered childminder
based in Longsight, Kenisha is now
hoping to grow her childminding business
to work particularly with children with
additional needs.
“I found the PopUp Business School very
interesting. It was five days a week and
I learnt a lot about how to run my own
business.”
Yvonne spent many years working as a
careers advisor before stopping to bring
up her children. She is now looking
to launch her own careers guidance
business and went along for new ideas
to help get her business off the ground.
“I’m old so I don’t do social media but I
know I have to if I want my business to
work. The PopUp Business School made
learning the tools you need easy, fun
and didn’t overload me which has really
helped and will change the way I can
make my business work.”
Ayodeji Olofintila
V2020
www.vision2020leadershipinitiative.btik.com
vision2020leadershiptraining
@gmail.com
@V2020I
Ayodeji is the chair/
project director of
the V2020 initiative,
an international
trainer and youth
champion. V2020
is a Gorton-based
charity established to offer diversionary
activities to help prevent idleness,
vandalism, and crime among young
people with little or no access to play,
training, sport,
or community activities. He was
particularly interested in developing his
social media skills.
“Although I already use social media, the
PopUp Business School has shown me
how I can better use different social media
platforms to publicise our events and
training opportunities.”
Hamida Mbaga
All Things African
Hamida Mbaga
Hamida aims to
support deprived
communities in
Tanzania to earn a living
by selling African-produced fashion,
jewellery, footwear and arts and crafts.
She found the workshop very useful,
particularly learning about social media.
“Every day I hear about Twitter but I didn’t
know how to use it. The PopUp Business
School has been very useful in making us
realise that you don’t have to have money
to start a business. There are different
ways I can use social media to promote
the work of African artists.”
Catherine Meechan
@C_Ness_
Catherine is a Media Tech graduate with
a Joint Masters in Digital & Social Media
Marketing who has some innovative ideas
for bringing communities together using
new media. She is
eager to connect
with people who can
make use of her skills
while she continues
to develop her
business idea.
“I found the PopUp
Business School a
really great event. It was really nice to
meet up with people and share ideas. My
takeaway from the course is that you learn
to adapt your strategies to provide shortterm
success as well as
long-term success.”
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