After leaving Berkhamsted over four years ago, sisters Izzie and Sam Hurst went on to develop a clothes-swapping app called Dopplle. The app encourages users to help the environment by swapping clothes with others as opposed to buying clothes brand new.

Regularly hosting clothes-swapping events at university and college campuses nationwide, Dopplle is a hit with students who share a passion for sustainable clothing. “We started by hosting clothes-swapping events at university. We took the idea forward and developed an app. Izzie even did her placement year through Dopplle,” Sam explained.

Izzie praises the skills she learned during Young Enterprise as an introduction to the sides of business she hadn’t considered before.

“During the programme I worked a lot on promoting our business via social media- which is critical to running Dopplle. The programme was a big eye-opener to the world of entrepreneurship and taught me some important skills like communication, teamwork, and leadership which are vital to running a successful business,” Izzie says. Since they credit a lot of their success to the skills learned at school, Izzie and Sam now regularly return to Berkhamsted to help current Sixth Formers involved in Young Enterprise develop the skills to become future entrepreneurs.

What’s next for this remarkable pair of Old Berkhamstedians? “In terms of the longevity of Dopplle we are at a point now where we just want to keep expanding the students and communities we are connecting with and seeing how big we can make our business in the long term.”