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Young people go to market to showcase their talents

2 mins read Children's Services Participation
Two brothers from Stockport have developed a concept that fuses young people's passion for arts and entrepreneurialism by setting up marketplaces across the UK to showcase their talents.

Provider Teenage Market

Name Joe and Tom Barratt

With its talented street performers and dozens of brightly decked stalls, it would be easy to confuse a Teenage Market with a carnival.

Devised in 2011 by brothers Joe and Tom Barratt, then 19 and 17 years old respectively, the Teenage Market is designed to provide young people with a platform to showcase their talents - from singing and performing to catering and designing - while revitalising forgotten market places.

The pair - now aged 21 and 19 - came up with the idea after stumbling across a vintage market in a part of their home town of Stockport that they didn't know existed.

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