Aptus Suits is a bespoke Cotswold tailoring Company, offering high quality tailored garments at affordable prices. If we were to have access to the inner centre store we could not only measure people up for bespoke garments, but also sell, hand made ties, and cufflinks perfect for the christmas market.

As Aptus is an established brand although new, it has the structure in place to really cope with the footfall an inner centre shop would attract. We also would have a great team in place to really promote Aptus and Bath University alike.

Our idea is to have a small, café style charity shop that sells all-sorts of things to take away or enjoy within the premises. We'd bring chairs from our own houses using cars. Some of the things we would sell include:
Cakes/Cookies, preferably home baked for large profit margins.
Add to that some drinks e.g. innocent smoothies and coffee (we already have a quality coffee machine).
Have hand painted plastic cups and sell glasses of drink (QuickFix drinks) for about 40p each.
Sell sweets.
Bring a waffle iron and sell warm waffles with ice cream or something plus a cup of coffee.
We could also bring a sandwich maker and make toasties.
A microwave and heat and sell microwaveable food.

The basic premise is that it is "a couple of students coming together to make money for charity". So half of the profit we make would go there, the other half we would keep. We would advertise this within the shop to make up for the fact that our store would seem rather "thrown together". People would also feel more inclined to buy in such a store.

Names for the shop would include "Scramble Café" or "Café of Wonders". Although the amount of seating would be very limited, we would still call it a café (or maybe a play on the word starbucks, such as bazaarbucks). We presume that people would be intrigued if they see a shop selling all-sorts that is quite the opposite of what you'd expect, namely more like a school bazaar. From the outside, they would presume low prices, but once they get inside we can command a price premium thanks to our charity aspect.

We would be very flexible in adding items to this list and we could even employ the help of our friends in producing some of the goods, since this is for charity also.

Thank you for considering our entry.

To sell niche and unique products that could be aimed at tourists and students. These would include traffic cone themed accessories (such as a traffic cone pen holders, lamps and doorstops). Also to sell a selection of stylistic posters, and off beat City of Bath souvinears.

Eating sushi with a difference!

A sushi place where the customer gets to choose the fillings! As part of Bath Healthy Eatin week we are going to promote sushi as easy cheap and healthy food. We are going to offer sushi making sessions in store for those sushi lovers! Customers can pick their own fillings, sit down and learn how to make sushi themselves. They will learn how to make handrolls or maki using ingredients provided by us

Plan
1.Promoting sushi place with free jasmine tea and sushi samples
2.Pick your own fillings 1pm start/lunch
3.Sushi making!
--Get people to come back and make their own sushi at around 3-4pm

Prices for sushi at lunch will depend on the filling
Prices for sushi making will be 4-5 pounds per head
Sushi making session will last 1 hour max. will be given 1 or 2 sheets of seeweed, selection of fillings (possibility left overs from lunch) and unlimited rice and sauces
Our team believes that this idea not only meet our enterprising needs but also helps promote healthy eating and healthy lifestyles for the Bath community, which fits in perfectly with Healthy Living Week

Quite simply: Veggie boxes at wholesale prices!

This is a social enterprise that aims to provide the local community with a better option for both the customer and the environment.

The sale of organic produce reduces the chemicals (pesticides and fertilisers) and energy (chemical priduction) that have been used to grow the products. This is beneficail for the consumer because they are not ingesting the chemicals and better for the the environment because the carbon and ecological footprint are less (reduction in pollution of ecosystems and the atmosphere).

Our produce is sourced as locally as possible (ideally within the UK) which creates a stronger british economy and a more secure British agricultural industry. While some of our produce will be sourced from abroad it is limited to those items that are high in demand but that are not in season in the UK (e.g tomatoes and peppers at the moment), this is preferable to not supplying them because these are items that would be perchased elsewhere if not provided by us (most likely from an source that is not organic!).

Veg box scheme

The idea that me and my team wants to bring to fruition is to sell to the general public traditional vietnamese food which would include a selection of starters and desserts. The concept was inspired by the fact that me and my team are of a vietnamese nationality and we wanted to raise the public's awareness of what vietnamese cuisine is all about since it's not generally well known.

The Indian Experience

As the weather is getting colder, and people are walking around town doing
their christmas shopping we thought it would be a good idea to sell traditional
'masala' teas, hot chocos, hot 'fruit' drinks (like mulled wine but without the alcohol)
with a selection of spices. Aswell as the drinks we would like to sell traditional indian
savouries and sweets (packaged).

Alongside the hot drinks, and traditional sweets we would like to give back/neck/hand
massages, risk assessment. One of the members is currently taking a massage course.

We are offering traditional Indian food or gambling or maggic trick and show and fortune telling.
we are not sure if it is allowed to do though.

Working with a NGO to promote World's AIDS Day through selling greeting cards.

Specialized in indie, retro, and vintage apparel, accessories which are trendy up to date and most importantly affordable. Our brand aims to bring affordable fashion to Bath. For any girl, Retro Attic becomes a cool older sister's closet, where one is able to find stylish attire. There is a gap in the market for a company like ours who know our target market well and what styles and trends they like. Due to the fact that Bath is a town with high student population (our target market) and the fact that we have extremely competitive prices we know that we can be a success.

We are a social enterprise

We are holding a promotion event for world AIDS day.

We have been in contact with an NGO in India who provide food and shelter to victims of the disease. They are sending us a number of greeting cards which have been designed by suffers of HIV or AIDS. We intend to sell them to the public whilst making collections and distributing material to create awareness.

World AIDS day is on Tuesday the 1st of December, we would ideally like to host our event the weekend proceeding this in order to maximize our footfall.

We are also hoping to gain the involvement of The Terrence Higgins Trust however this has not yet been confirmed.

Participation and donation of stock from the NGO in India has already been confirmed.