STUDENTS from a college near Tenbury are making some special jewellery.

Engineering Students from North Shropshire College’s (NSC) Aspire Centre near Tenbury and Young Enterprise Students from Hereford Sixth Form College are working collaboratively.

NSC Aspire students are providing their partners with products they have made in their engineering workshop.

These include the defunct Half Crown, the old Penny and old Florin (Two Shillings) coin rings. All these are made from now pre decimal coins which are no longer legal currency.

This has provided an opportunity to recycle old coins into a worthwhile marketable product for the Enterprise students to promote and sell. Furthermore, Aspire students have produced a three-coin necklace, designed by Hereford Sixth Form College.

Aspire students have also supplied spoon and knife bracelets made from cutlery retrieved from charity shops and markets. This further enhances the recycling philosophy encouraged by Hereford Sixth Form College students.

“The value added benefit to this collaborative initiative is that students, who are unfamiliar with each other, are now working together, networking and are exposed to how business works in the world of commerce,” said NSC’s engineering lecturer Simon Thomas.

“So far this has been outstanding work by all students concerned. It is hoped that these products marketed by Hereford Sixth Form College’s Young Enterprise can help them win the national competition.”

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