Kevin Parker, Simon Hedges, Simon Parfitt and friends at their charity jumble sale in July 1980
A TEAM of young entrepreneurs staged their own jumble sale to support Help the Aged in July 1980.
Kevin Parker, Simon Hedges and Simon Parfitt, pictured with a few friends, were all aged between 12 and 13 when they set up their own pop-up shop.
The trio, who were pupils at Northway Middle School in Oxford, sold a collection of possessions at the latter's family house in Headington.
They delivered 300 leaflets to advertise the event and enticed customers with bargains such as this bike, priced at just £1.50.
Their efforts secured £47 for the elderly people's charity, which later merged with Age Concern to become Age UK.
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