SHOPPERS will be able to show their support for Operation Covert at the weekend as enterprising students take their products to the public.

A trade fair will be held at Kidderminster College on Saturday morning featuring stalls manned by Wyre Forest students.

The groups will make a contribution to the fund to sell their wares as part of the Young Enterprise scheme, which teaches pupils how to manage their own businesses.

Pupils from all Wyre Forest high schools will take part, along with youngsters from Hagley and Haybridge high, Stourminster and Blakebrook special schools and Kidderminster College.

Many gifts will have a Christmas theme, said organiser, Joy Willetts, who said Young Enterprise was thrilled to help Operation Covert.

She explained: "My son has spent many happy hours down at Rhydd Covert. He is 18 now so I have watched it grow and develop over the last 18 years and I have seen some of the advantages it offers to youngsters."

Of Young Enterprise, Mrs Willetts said: "It gives the children the chance to operate like a business in the real world, as opposed to something in a textbook.

"They don't just sell products. They have to raise capital, sell shares, appoint a board of directors and open a bank account, so the fair is just one part of the enterprise scheme."

Saturday's fair takes place from 10am until noon in the foyer of the college, in Market Street.