Poppy’s business idea wins £500 prize in The Cotswold Challenge, 2021.

The online business that she set up during lockdown 2020, called “poppybubbles”, came first in the Innovation and Entrepreneurial Thinking category.

In the second year of The Cotswold Challenge, Year 11-13 students from many local schools and colleges sent in their artwork, photographs, poems, stories, inventions or business ideas to be evaluated by expert and experienced judges including Lady Bathurst, Adam Henson and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.

Poppy’s business, which she runs online and through Instagram, combines the need to unwind and relax with a clever subscription and ordering system and support for a charity that is close to her heart: Young Minds.

Read more about poppybubbles here.

New for this year’s competition was a Special Recognition Award for Outstanding Talent across the three categories of Art and Design, Creative Writing and Innovation. The lucky prize winner of £250 in the Art & Design category was Katie Brunyee, who also attends The Cotswold School and entered her artwork entitled: ‘Isolation’.

Well done also to Sophia Wright, who was commended in the Creative Writing category for her piece, entitled ‘A Masked Nation’; and to Natasha Tustin, who was highly commended for her idea, ‘The Solar Panel Initiative’.

Visit The Cotswold Challenge winners’ full showcase of winning and commended entries at: www.thecotswoldchallenge.com.