Welcome to Biz Kids!
You’re putting your trust in Biz Kids to supplement your child's knowledge of the world. But before you do, let me tell you the story of Biz Kids, and who we are, so you know you’re in safe hands.
The Biz Kids story started in 2008 when I founded The Notting Hill Shopping Bag Company, a local business selling souvenir bags along Portobello Road.
As a huge fan of Notting Hill and resident of the neighborhood, I saw an opportunity to create a special souvenir for all the visitors coming to the area.
Plus, I wanted to be more involved in the community.
The business took off and the Notting Hill Shopping Bag remains the most popular souvenir for visitors to Notting Hill, even today, nearly 15 years on.
Plus, our mission to donate 10% of our profits to local good causes along the way meant we supported charities and initiatives including Barnardos, The Lighthouse Trust and The Salvation Army
The Biz Kids story started in 2008 when I founded The Notting Hill Shopping Bag Company, a local business selling souvenir bags along Portobello Road.
As a huge fan of Notting Hill and resident of the neighborhood, I saw an opportunity to create a special souvenir for all the visitors coming to the area.
Plus, I wanted to be more involved in the community.
The business took off and the Notting Hill Shopping Bag remains the most popular souvenir for visitors to Notting Hill, even today, nearly 15 years on.
Plus, our mission to donate 10% of our profits to local good causes along the way meant we supported charities and initiatives including Barnardos, The Lighthouse Trust and The Salvation Army
But how does this relate to Biz Kids?
Well, running the Notting Hill Shopping Bag taught me more about entrepreneurship than I’d ever understood before.
At the time, I also had another business, the digitally disruptive press agency Talk to the Press, which was much bigger and (at the time) more widely known than The Notting Hill Shopping Bag company.
Yet it was within The Notting Hill Shopping Bag company that I realised how simple business can be.
I also saw that if I had learned basic business skills this business was teaching me, like product creation, face-to-face selling, and distribution earlier in life, my path might have been different.
And at the same time, I was inspired by the young kids I saw working on stalls in Portobello Market.
You can hear the story of 10-year-old Chase in our video
I began to see the learnings contained within The Notting Hill Shopping Bag company as being able to radically improve the lives and futures of young people across the UK.
And what if all kids could learn what Chase knew?
What if they could all learn how simple business can be?
What if I could help them create their own opportunities and make a positive impact on the UK?
The question was….. How?
By 2016, I’d exited both The Notting Hill Shopping Bag company and Talk to the Press in lifechanging deals.
I went on to found Bolt Digital, a 7 figure digital marketing company.
Bolt Digital works with over 100 retail and digital brands in the UK, and is most well known for taking a brand called Absolute Collagen from just £1000 per month in revenue to well over a million pounds a month in revenue.
I also made angel investments and became a shareholder in Bolt Angels. But I never forget about Biz Kids, and the questions I’d asked myself whilst back in Portobello Market.
By 2016, I’d exited both The Notting Hill Shopping Bag company and Talk to the Press in lifechanging deals.
I went on to found Bolt Digital, a 7 figure digital marketing company.
Bolt Digital works with over 100 retail and digital brands in the UK, and is most well known for taking a brand called Absolute Collagen from just £1000 per month in revenue to well over a million pounds a month in revenue.
I also made angel investments and became a shareholder in Bolt Angels. But I never forget about Biz Kids, and the questions I’d asked myself whilst back in Portobello Market.
Fast forward to lockdown in 2020.
By now it was clear to me that with each passing year, the gulf between what kids learn at school and the world we live in today was widening.
So when faced with teaching the national curriculum, I decided to teach my kids an hour of entrepreneurship a day.
My brother's son joined, then various friends' children, and I ended up with 15 children attending live EVERY day for 6 weeks, with 300 more in a Facebook group accessing live streams and recordings.
The themes were ‘There is no such thing as a bad idea’ and that businesses exist not just to make a profit, but to make a difference to the lives of other people, be a great place to work and contribute positively to the community.
In total, 35 lessons were delivered, and the children showed up every single day for their learnings.
We achieved a slew of publicity in the Daily Mail, BBC and Primary Times. And it turned out other parents shared my view that while teachers do the best job they can, the education system is missing vital skills that would help prepare children for the future.
As for me, I was blown away by how much the kids, some as young as 7 years old, actually understood. It seemed to me that entrepreneurship runs within the veins of so many of us, most of us just never get taught how to harness and articulate the power of it, let alone deploy that knowledge.
The reason?
We’re busy, we trust our government and so we just muddle through education and head out into the big wide world and get a job.
Here’s a video of some of the Biz Kids highlights from those days
In 2022, having reached a position where I was able to change the way I worked, I decided to dedicate more time again to Biz kids.
That's why we started Biz Kids - to give young people the opportunity to learn business skills and see the possibilities of entrepreneurship.
You'll love Biz Kids, too, just like Biz Kids parents do!
With weekly lessons in entrepreneurship, vision, mindset, goal setting, and problem-solving, Biz Kids teaches children aged 7 - 13 vital life skills they won't learn at school
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