Rhyl Community Market to help budding entrepreneurs

A market is offering free stalls for people wanting to start up businesses in a bid to encourage local entrepreneurs in one of Wales' most deprived areas.

Rhyl Community Market is offering 10 pitches for up to eight weeks at a time for budding business people, community groups and charities. The aim is for them to build up enough capital to develop their businesses. Those behind the project hope it will help start community enterprises.
Denbigh Voluntary Services Council said it was helping people to help themselves. It hopes the new stall holders will offer something different to the outdoor market, which is run on Thursdays and Saturdays, in the town's high street, selling unique, local goods.
In turn, it says the market would act as a good place to start a business, with help offered to arrange a deal for a permanent pitch at the market in the long term.
"Who knows, after building up in the market, they could then open a unit or a shop," said Sandy Williams, of the Denbigh Voluntary Services Council (DVSC).
"It is a low-risk way of trying out a business idea and we would then work with them to support them and point them in the right direction if they want to carry on after the eight weeks."
The free stalls initiative plans to work with further education colleges to encourage business students to take up the offer of a stall.