ENTERPRISING sixth formers are busy creating a series of novel cufflinks to sell to their school friends and over the internet.

The year 12 students at St Nicholas Catholic High School are producing the cufflinks for a Young Enterprise competition.

The team is called Bri Pro (Brilliance in Production), which has launched a Shop Cufflinks business.

The company manufactures and sells personalised and pre-designed wooden cufflinks at £10 and £5 respectively, with people able to choose the wood and message on the personalised cufflinks.

The firm currently offers six designs, an anchor, moustache, peace sign, poke ball, spade and yin and yang, and has sold about 50 sets since the beginning of this month.

“Our aim is to sell 30 pairs of cufflinks every month for four months, we’ve had an order for 30 from a local business, and have had interest from students and teachers,” said Nick Broom, the managing director of the business.

“We chose cufflinks for our products as we wanted something where we could add value by putting the components together rather than just buying in a product complete and selling it on.

“The designs that we sell are based on market research we carried out to find out which were the most popular, and we make the cufflinks in the DT department using a laser cutter, which engraves and cuts the wood.”

At the end of the competition the team will make a presentation as it competes with other schools at regional level.

The finance director of Shop Cufflinks is Dale Turner, the marketing director is Dan Geoghegan-Shaw, Cameron Flanagan is the firm’s operations director and the IT director is Alex Castro-Fuentes.

The other members of the company are Declan Tomlinson, Joe Carroll, Cory O’Donnell, Chester Malapitan, Sean Boylan, Sam Papworth and Alex Wells.

The high school entered the students in the competition, and more details on the business are available via twitter @ShopCufflinks, instagram – shop cufflinks, email info@shopcufflinks.co.uk, the website www.shopcufflinks.co.uk and www.facebook.com/pages/ShopCufflinks/591694324266152.

Young Enterprise is aimed at 15 to 19-year-olds, and students are supported by a volunteer business adviser at regular company meetings.