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00:00Yeah, so why don't you tell me a bit about a bit about Sparks.
00:11Sparks is a charity for mental health for young people and adults.
00:15So we started off focusing on kids through low income housing, potentially people with
00:21gang culture or drugs, so to get them off the streets and get them to channel their
00:24energy into something that's more creative, that's better for their lives.
00:29So at the minute we are based in about five or six stores around the country, it's a brand
00:34new store in Peterborough, it's the biggest one.
00:36And so it's not for profit, all the profit that we do make goes into local theatre projects
00:40to help with sports, as I was saying, also we expanded now to arts and crafts, so kids
00:46like to play sports, so we're including that as well, a rehabilitation type of space.
00:53One of our unique selling points about USPs is the fact that most of our gear is brand
00:58new.
00:59So for example, we have a label such as Jack Jones, James Pringle, and it's a very competitive
01:03price, £12 for a Jack Jones suit, it's very, very cheap.
01:07So we have one of our managers who is Benjamin, he's just 30 years old, so it's like a brand
01:14new, and it's very cheap as well.
01:17So obviously that's a double, I mean, it gets people in at the same time, people with low
01:20income housing.
01:21So we have five things, they go to JD, you go for a hoodie, it's like 80 quid, it's
01:28cheap, you can get a hoodie for £22.
01:32So it's very, it's always competitive.