{"id":138676,"date":"2020-06-16T16:57:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T15:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=138676"},"modified":"2020-06-16T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T15:58:08","slug":"alfie-the-6-year-old-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/alfie-the-6-year-old-businessman\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfie, The 6-Year-Old Businessman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watch out business owners – there\u2019s a new entrepreneur in town, who\u2019s 5 times younger than you, and is doing your job better.
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Alfie Bradley has set up his own garden maintenance company during lockdown, after overcoming a speech impediment he\u2019s had from a young age. He\u2019s 6 years old.<\/p>\n

Alfreds cutting services has been keeping everyone\u2019s gardens in good shape during lockdown, for a small charge of around \u00a310. But, instead of splashing his fortune on toys, Alfred is doing what even adult businessmen struggle to do sometimes – reinvest in themselves, in order to scale the business further! What a clever dude! If you didn\u2019t already think he was cool enough, he also gives a discount to essential workers like NHS staff.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s even got himself a sharp looking green is uniform for his business.<\/p>\n

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Alfred Bradley.<\/p><\/div>\n

Alfie, from Cornwall, says he \u201cwants to be a millionaire,\u201d whilst his Mum\u00a0Amy, 34, says: <\/span>“There’s no stopping him. He’s like a mini Richard Branson.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“He’s always on his feet doing something so lockdown really restricted him from doing things outside of our home.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Then he figured out a way of keeping moving as well as helping other people.”<\/p>\n

Despite somewhat struggling in school, Alfie has clearly learned the value of money and business from a extremely young age, which is great. The business\u2019 services seem to be expanding, too. He\u2019s starting to provide window cleaning services, and plans to add a few more services in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

His mum continued:\u00a0“Alfie was completely <\/span>non-verbal<\/span> until he was nearly four, that impacted a lot on his social skills and made him terrified of the outside world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“This business is just a massive thing for Alfie.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Academically he’s very behind and has to have personal help from an assistant but it’s never stopped him from being so hands on and determined.”<\/p>\n

Hes already established a good reputation for himself, and has a few loyal clients already. His family are rightfully very proud of his efforts, it\u2019s not every day your 6 year old starts a successful business!<\/p>\n

Alfie says he wants to buy a garage one day, so his family can work in it, including his uncle and grandad.<\/p>\n

He said: <\/span>“Granddad is 83 and still tinkers with cars. <\/span>I just want everyone in the world to be happy.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to support his business, check out the Facebook page here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watch out business owners – there\u2019s a new entrepreneur in town, who\u2019s 5 times younger than you, and is doing your job better. Alfie Bradley has set up his own garden maintenance company during lockdown, after overcoming a speech impediment he\u2019s had from a young age. He\u2019s 6 years old. Alfreds cutting services has been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":138729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5],"tags":[47,746,1792,71,101,43],"class_list":["post-138676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-uk-news","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-good-news","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138730,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138676\/revisions\/138730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}