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My Life: Mollie Keane, 15, Walthamstow

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I'm part of a business called Bits and Bows with Clare and Verity. We're all quite creative so with our 30 we decided to create workshops after school for Years 7, 8 and 9.

The first was about how to create your own clothes and brighten them up.The next one had a Valentine's theme. We got lots of red material andsequins and told them to get creative.

We're charging 2 a session. We started with 20 people coming butnow there are 40. We've already made more than 300.

The next workshop is going to be about homeware. We'll bring pictureframes and get people to decorate them with sequins and that kind ofstuff.

We also want to make sure people remember what they've done, so for thelast one we're getting a massive canvas and will get them all to paintand write on it.

So many people have come to the workshops that we're going to use themoney to keep them going, even though we're leaving this year.

Having this much fun has made me think I might want to go into businesswhen I'm older.

- Mollie is a pupil at Walthamstow School for Girls, one of 118 schoolstaking part in the Make Your Mark With a Tenner competition

- Do you know a child or young person with a story to tell? Call TristanDonovan on 020 8267 4709, email: tristan.donovan@haymarket.com.


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