News
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Our Thirsk Business Member in the Spotlight for December 2020 is Suzy Jennings, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Darrowby Consulting Ltd...
1. When did you start your business?
January 2020
2. What led you to start a business/how did it all begin?
We are a husband and wife team with two different sets of complementary skills. Through informal discussions with friends in business and the not-for-profit sector, we came to realise there is a demand for the kind of
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Our Thirsk Business Member in the Spotlight for November 2020 is Ken Wood from KDW Architecture ...
1. When did you start your business?
19 August 2019
2. What led you to start a business/how did it all begin?
I had worked in private practice for 25 years and had 12 successful years as a Director for a North Yorkshire based company before a change in circumstances led to me exploring setting up my own independent business. With help and encouragement
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Our Thirsk Business Member in the Spotlight for October is Rosa Fothergill from Tea Time Café (Tea Time Yorkshire Ltd):
1. When did you start your business?
September 2019
2. What led you to start a business/how did it all begin?
I started my first business Tea Time Catering, 5 years ago when moving back home to Yorkshire after traveling. I just wanted to do something of my own with my own ideas. Then in September
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Our Thirsk Business Member in the Spotlight this month is Kristina's. Thank you Kristina for sharing your business with us...
1. When did you start your business?
2015
2. What led you to start a business/how did it all begin?
It was always a dream of mine to run my own little shop. Andy and I got married in 2014 and had the best time planning and celebrating, going back to the daily grind just didn’t feel right. We
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RedKiteIT are our T&DBA Member in the Spotlight this month. Thank you to Kelly Teagle and Charles Collinson for sharing an insight into the services you offer in and around Thirsk.
1. When did you start your business?
RedKiteIT was formed in January 2015 from the combining two long established businesses of over 20 years.
2. What led you to start a business/how did it all begin?
I'd been working from home as a freelancer web developer for 9 years
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Our Thirsk & District Business Association Member in the SPOTLIGHT for March is Deborah Goodall from AER8 Marketing.
1. When did you start your business?
September 2011 – it seems a whole lifetime ago!
2. What led you to start a business/how did it all begin?
I’d been in my job as Head of Marketing for the Yorkshire Agricultural Society (The Great Yorkshire Show) for about 5 years and the challenges that I had been brought in to sort out
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Our Thirsk & District Business Association Member in the SPOTLIGHT for February is Nicole Brûlé-Walker from NBW:Move.
1. When did you start your business?
My business has evolved over the last 20 years. I started in Canada and relocated here in 2001.
2. What led you to start a business/how did it all begin?
I had worked in a system in Canada which was similar to the NHS here and found that time constraints didn’t allow me to spend the
Keep It Local Magazine
Thirsk & District Business Association are exploring new ways to promote our local businesses and members. With this in mind, we have launched a bi-monthly magazine call KEEP IT LOCAL THIRSK.
The magazine will be Royal Mail delivered to all YO7 postcodes alternative months starting in July 2020* (6 editions per year). Only our members and businesses based in/or servicing the YO7 postcode areas will be permitted to advertise, so no national advertisers will be included.
The publication will contain a newsletter from
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Our T&DBA Member in the 'Spotlight' this month is Ian Sadler, who is the Customer Experience Director for North Yorkshire from insight6
1. When did you start your business?
I took the brave step to go self-employed in April 2014
2. What led you to start a business/how did it all begin?
I’d previously spent 20 years in Customer Service roles at Aviva, doing the do, and then managing customer service admin, call centre, and finally complaint teams before being made redundant.
In my next
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In this month's Spotlight feature we talk to Annie Drew, who has recently opened up The Feed Room in Raskelf.
1. When did you start your business?
Opened on 26 July 2019
2. What led you to start a business/how did it all begin?
As a child I always said I would have a tea room. In December 2018 the tenants moved out of the building and I started that childhood dream again...The Feed Room was now happening. Right up until I opened