Anyone under the age of 18 has probably heard the following phrases a thousand and one times; “Oh you can do that when you’re older,” “Someday,” “You’re a bit young at the moment,” and the ever annoying, “when you grow up.” The fact of the matter is that just because you are under 18 it doesn’t mean that you can’t start living your dreams now – age is but a number folks!
The Compton Champions Award aims to get you on the right track to finding out what your dreams are and to give you the confidence to go out and make them reality. Through taking part in the scheme, you will learn and develop a range of skills to help you along the way and could potentially make contacts via fundraising that might benefit your dream-come-true-making-plans!
Still don’t believe that you are old enough? Then take a gander at these young entrepreneurs that ignored the critics and proved that you should never let your age define you.
Louis Barnett
Born in Kinver, South Staffordshire, Louis struggled in school with dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia and left to be home-schooled at the age of 11. He soon got into making cakes and chocolates for friends and family as a hobby. His grandfather eventually lent him £500 to buy his first chocolate machine and at the age of 12 in 2005, Louis launched his chocolate company Chocolit, which was renamed on his 21st birthday as Louis Barnett’s Chocolates. Louis now runs a chocolate factory in Burton On Trent and his products have been stocked by Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and Selfridges.
Cory Nieves
When he was 9 years old, Cory decided he wanted to help his mother buy a car. He started off by selling hot cocoa and then added lemonade and cookies to his repertoire. The cookies were such a huge success that he eventually created his own fresh bake cookie company Mr. Cory’s Cookies. The company now prides itself on selling the perfect chocolate chip cookie and gives part of its proceeds back to the community.
Mark Zuckerberg
A name that you most definitely will recognise. Whilst Zuckerberg was 19 (still pretty young!!) when he developed Facebook with his Harvard roommates, he was approached by both Microsoft and AOL while he was still in high school after he co-developed a music app called Synapse Media Player. We’d tell you how it ended up, but unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade then you probably already know!!
The Compton Champions Award aims to get you on the right track to finding out what your dreams are and to give you the confidence to go out and make them reality. Through taking part in the scheme, you will learn and develop a range of skills to help you along the way and could potentially make contacts via fundraising that might benefit your dream-come-true-making-plans!
Still don’t believe that you are old enough? Then take a gander at these young entrepreneurs that ignored the critics and proved that you should never let your age define you.
Louis Barnett
Born in Kinver, South Staffordshire, Louis struggled in school with dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia and left to be home-schooled at the age of 11. He soon got into making cakes and chocolates for friends and family as a hobby. His grandfather eventually lent him £500 to buy his first chocolate machine and at the age of 12 in 2005, Louis launched his chocolate company Chocolit, which was renamed on his 21st birthday as Louis Barnett’s Chocolates. Louis now runs a chocolate factory in Burton On Trent and his products have been stocked by Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and Selfridges.
Cory Nieves
When he was 9 years old, Cory decided he wanted to help his mother buy a car. He started off by selling hot cocoa and then added lemonade and cookies to his repertoire. The cookies were such a huge success that he eventually created his own fresh bake cookie company Mr. Cory’s Cookies. The company now prides itself on selling the perfect chocolate chip cookie and gives part of its proceeds back to the community.
Mark Zuckerberg
A name that you most definitely will recognise. Whilst Zuckerberg was 19 (still pretty young!!) when he developed Facebook with his Harvard roommates, he was approached by both Microsoft and AOL while he was still in high school after he co-developed a music app called Synapse Media Player. We’d tell you how it ended up, but unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade then you probably already know!!