Young Traders Market — COVID-19 means
2020 regional winners chosen online
YOUNG entrepreneurs from all over the country will battle it out this month to clinch the title of Young Trader of the Year in the annual competition devised by the NMTF.
This year more than fifty 16 to 30-year-olds will be competing for the title and a cash prize of £500. The final is being held on August 28 and 29 when the budding traders will set up stall on Waterside in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire.
Whilst the COVID 19 pandemic led to the cancellation of nine proposed regional finals, the traders who would have stood those have been judged remotely by a panel of retail market experts and invited to the final.
Click below to see the regional award winners.
Young Traders Market 2020 Regional Award Winners
Overall winner: Mark Afford
Category winners:
Food & Drink: Josh Skillman
Grocery: Mark Afford
Arts & Crafts: Cloe Jackson
General Retail: Aaron Gent
Highly commended:
Amy Halford (Grocery)
Tess Dickinson (Grocery)
Connor Hattamsworth (Arts & Crafts)
Kimberley Gregory (General Retail)
Overall winner: James Ackroyd
Category winners:
Grocery: James Ackroyd
Arts & Crafts: Olivia Washington
General Retail: Francesca Batley
Highly commended:
Paige Deacon (General Retail)
Overall winner: Emma Rus
Category winners:
Food & Drink: Naomi and Phoebe Desalegene
Grocery: Emma Rus
Arts & Crafts: Danielle Jefferson
Highly commended:
Robi Rajib (Food & Drink)
Aleksandra Barscevska and Gabrielle Long (Grocery)
Tim Cole (Arts & Crafts)
Overall winner: Ben Staves
Category winners:
Food & Drink: Owen Lewis
Arts & Crafts: Ben Staves
General Retail: Lucy Martin-Hall
Highly commended:
Filip Tachan (Food & Drink)
Tian Allsop (Arts & Crafts)
Overall winner: Christopher Walster
Category winners:
Food & Drink: Kate O’Callaghan
Grocery: Sam Boden-Wright
Arts & Crafts: Christopher Walster
General Retail: Elysha Butler
Highly commended:
George Rudd (Food & Drink)
Emma Bywater (Arts & Crafts)
Category winner:
General Retail: Erin Boyle
Overall winner: Lucy Saunders
Category winners:
Food & Drink: Oliver Grubb
Grocery: Leah Pitt
Arts & Crafts: Lucy Saunders
General Retail: Amelia Saint
Highly commended:
Eliza Hall (Grocery)
Lizzie Boher (General Retail)
Overall winner: Hannah Thomas
Category winners:
Grocery: Edan Davies
General Retail: Hannah Thomas
Overall winner: Jemma Lavender
Category winners:
Food & Drink: Ishmael Brown
Grocery: Usaamah Elalaoui
Arts & Crafts: Ashleigh Humphrey
General Retail: Jemma Lavender
Highly commended:
Grace Hancock (Arts & Crafts)
Overall winner: Aaron Earley
Category winners:
Food & Drink: Aaron Earley
Grocery: Jade Glossop
Arts & Crafts: Holly Greenwood
General Retail: Becky Jackson
Highly commended:
Lauren Charlton (Arts & Crafts)
Olivia Herrett and Jess Withington (General Retail)