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Secret Sanctuary – Where's That Then?
We have yet another example of a young person setting up their own business in the town in response to the lack of traditional employment.
Location is important for a business so Rosie Howard has made a feature out of her hard-to-find massage centre, calling it "The Secret Sanctuary"
"Yes, I do get a lot of people ringing up to find out where we are," said Rosie, as the website enigmatically refers only to 'central Chipping Norton'. Rosie meets customers by the gate leading to her hidden hideaway.
Perhaps better known as one half of Jive Pony, the equestrian display team, or from her seven year stint behind the Chequers bar, Rosie gained her ITEC massage qualification a year ago. She has been doing home visits, and still does, but can now welcome people at her new treatment rooms.
"I love doing Jive Pony but it's very much a summer thing," Serena said, "and I needed something that could run all year round, something that could grow. And in Chippy, really you need to make that happen yourself."
www.thesecretsanctuary.co.uk
01608 643162 / 07843 200464
Website designed by GD Associates | Copywriting by Chris Hogan
Local Firm, European Success
Minuteman Press, based in Banbury, recently supplied Chateau des Vigiers Golf & Country Club, in France, with banners and roll up displays for promotions in England.
This wasn't just a success for Minuteman but also for the power of local business networking. The connection came via another 729 member, Debra Jardine of independent marketing agency PDQ Partnership.
Apparently the French have seen nothing like it before and were so impressed that Minuteman is now looking forward to more orders from the French market. Bill Brown of Minuteman is now brainstorming name changes for the business; L'Imprimerie Homme du Minute anyone?
www.banbury.minutemanpress.com
www.pdqpartnership.com
www.vigiers.com
Wealthy and Wise
Tony Yarrow, who has lived in the town for twenty years, has welcomed his son Hugh into the business. Tony's Wise Investment employs around twenty people at Broadstone Grange, on the way to Enstone, where Tom Walkinshaw used to run his motor racing empire.
Hugh Yarrow spent seven and a half years in the City, running investment funds valued up to one billion pounds for Rathbones. But the birth of his first child made him re-consider how he wanted to live his life.
Hugh joined Wise Investments on September 1st and will be launching a new income fund on the 6th October. The Evenlode Income Fund will focus on high quality low risk shares in order to deliver income. Many people will have seen a drop in income from savings, as interest rates came down, so the fund aims to offer a 4.5% yield to replace that lost income.
