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YOUNG TRADERS MARKET NATIONAL FINAL
   SGS CUBING
 PLASTIC POLUTION SOLUTION
   OUTSIDE THE LINES
  MAMMA MADE IT
  NIL LIVING
 EM & J’S CANDLE QUEST
   THE ECO SHED
  CULTUREVILLE
  BELLE ISLE BOTANICALS
 IT’S IN THE SHIRT
   MORNINGSIDE YOUTH CLUB
  JADED HEART
   PEN & GWYN ILLUSTRATIONS
 CHRISTOPHER WALSTER
 from The One Show, announced the winners and the highly commended. In the food and drink category the winner was Caribbean street food specialist The RTG Kitchen run by Okeima Scarlett, 26, from Lewisham, with the help of his close friends Mathias Semombwe and Aaron Minto. Aaron Early with his business Bapman and Hoggin
was highly commended.
In the grocery category, honey
specialist Sam Alaloui was highly commended and the winner was Wilmer Carcamo, who runs Caribe Coffee selling the coffee beans he buys from 3,000 co-operative farms in his native Honduras and roasts himself in Morpeth, Northumberland.
In the arts and crafts section, the winner was Nicky Mills, who turned her back on her jet-setting life teaching English abroad to start her own business selling cards and prints from her original water- colours. Christopher Walster was highly commended for his business selling his artwork of cities.
The winner of the general goods section was Frankie Farrar and Botanical Boutique was highly commended.
All four category winners have received a year’s free NMTF membership.
Like so many of the young traders, each of them had an interesting back story. Okeima was inspired to start his own Caribbean street food
business, The RTG Kitchen, by the wonderful dishes his grandmother used to cook including jerk chicken and red snapper.
“I got qualified in catering and worked in some well-known restaurants in central London, and that gave me the confidence to have a go on my own,” said Okeima.
He had the support and help of two friends who all met at sixth form college in Lewisham and, perhaps with some foresight, he gave the business the acronym RTG — Road To Glory.
“The business only got started eight months ago and we do really well on Catford, Lewisham and Deptford markets,” he said.
Wilmer, the winner of the grocery
category, also took inspiration from his grandmother who used to have a small coffee farm in Honduras where he was born and lived until moving to the Cayman Islands when he was 21.
That was where he met his wife Ellie, a Geordie, but the couple returned to her home in Morpeth after their three-year-old son, Maddox, was born with a rare genetic condition.
“My family had a construction business in the Cayman Islands but when we decided to make our home in Morpeth because our our son’t medical condition I decided to start a coffee business because I had the connections and the knowledge from my life in Honduras,” he said.
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Winner:
PEN & GWYN ILLUSTRATIONS Highly Commended: CHRISTOPHER WALSTER






























































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