A trio of 22 year old female entrepreneurs has been awarded a prestigious business prize for creating period pants that cost just £4, in an effort to tackle period poverty globally.
Sarah said: "We are very much accidental entrepreneurs. Even when we started working together, we never expected it to spin out into a business. None of us ever dreamed of being entrepreneurs - I didn't even think it was possible." Their low manufacturing costs, one-size-fits-all design, and single-colour option enable the company to sell the pants at a lower price by keeping costs down.
Santander has now held its entrepreneurial contest for over a decade and a half, dispensing upward of £1 million in no-strings funding to an array of British start-ups and SMEs during that time.