About Rural Gold 

Rural Gold was created because of a competition called Young Enterprise: Young Enterprise is a not-for-profit business and enterprise charity run in England & Wales. Young Enterprise run a annual competition where students aged 16-18 establish a business and run it themselves fully. This allows students to the become an entrepreneur and have knowledge of how to run a business and what it is like to run a business for the future.
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Rural Gold and the products that we produce and sell are not our original idea. We struggled for an idea for some weeks before we got the idea of recycling old bullet cartridges and implementing the into mainly wooden products.

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We believe our product idea is unique and as a result of this has quite a unique target audience. But we feel we have found a good business idea and we have found a gap in this particular market.

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Rural Gold gets its resources mostly for free as we have a contract with Paul Smith of 'Smiths Kitchens' and get their off-cut pieces of wood that they wouldn't be able to put to use and therefore are using wood that would simply be thrown out. We use the end of shotgun cartridges which have been shot on clay pigeon shoot grounds and are again just using materials that would just be thrown out.

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Rural Gold attended the first stage of the Young Enterprise competition on the 21st March, 2017. With the day running smoothly from start to finish. There were seven possible awards that one team could pick up on the day. After a strong showing and a hard days work presenting and having interviews with the judges we came away with 4/7 of the awards. These awards included: Best Social, Ethical and Environmental, Best Presentation, Best Sales and Marketing and the main one, Winner of the Young Enterprise North Humber Area 1. This has allowed us to progress through to the next stage which will be held in Ferriby in mid-May time, where we are hoping to pick up more awards and progress further.