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21 year old jelly entrepreneur gets a boost from Superfast North Yorkshire

21 year-old Ryan Tindall has launched his own culinary business venture Just Jelly with help from Superfast North Yorkshire.

To help boost his fledgling business, Ryan has recently signed up to a specially tailored programme run by the Superfast North Yorkshire project offering free business support and advice on a variety of topics designed to help businesses harness the potential of high speed fibre broadband.

Ryan is the latest customer to join the county’s fibre broadband revolution after his village High Hawkser, was connected up to fibre as part of the multi million pound Superfast North Yorkshire project last month.

Ryan, who currently works as a Duty Manager at the Victoria Hotel, in Whitby, launched Just Jelly at the start of the year, running it from the family home

.Ryan, who already sells his jellies to delis, restaurants, gift shops and gastro pubs across the county, hopes eventually to attract interest from big supermarket chains and beyond.

He was inspired to start Just Jelly after eating Mint Jelly as a child, made by his grandmother Elizabeth Tindall.

“She used her own recipe and as I kid I loved it, and had it with most of my meals. Once I started to get an interest in food and cooking I decided to have a go at making it. I started experimenting with different flavours to give it a modern twist.”

“These days if you want to set up on your own you have to be online because that is increasingly how people first find you and buy things from you.

“We are a bit out in the sticks here so it is much easier to reach customers online. Before getting fibre the broadband was really slow. It’s so frustrating when you’re trying to do things like process orders or change and upload things quickly on the website.

A series of workshops, masterclasses and one-to-one business advice is on offer – and it’s free. The programme aims to attract 2,100 businesses to the scheme by June 2015.

North Yorkshire businesses wanting to find out more and to check whether they are eligible for the Business Support Programme should call 0845 0020021, email enquiries@sfny.co.uk or visit www.sfny.co.uk

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