#Chances4Children: Merseyside project offers opportunities to young entrepreneurs

29 July 2021 1 min read Fiona Simpson Youth Work Careers Guidance

A new initiative launched in a Merseyside shopping centre is supporting unemployed young people into the retail sector.

Eddie Holmes mentors young people through the Big Onion project. Picture: Merseyside Expanding Horizons

Created by Merseyside Expanding Horizons (MEH), The Big Onion offers low-cost stalls to young entrepreneurs and businesses.

Boasting 17 different trader units including an Italian café, a barbers and women’s clothes shop, the scheme based in Bootle Strand Shopping Centre also includes a sci-fi collectables’ shop run by Eddie Holmes who is mentoring would-be retailers.

Eddie initially joined the scheme while looking for work himself and is now the manager of The Big Onion premises at The Strand shopping centre and mentor to 19-year-old Callum, who has learning difficulties and struggled with confidence at school.

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