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Business Name: TCaddy - Ian Nelson
A charity worker has used his entrepreneurial skills to develop an innovative and completely unique golfing aide.
Ian Nelson from Willington, County Durham, has invented the TCaddy Golfer, which carries all the equipment you need for a perfect round of golf. He received support from Be Enterprising’s Enterprise Coaching programme to help plan and set up the business.
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Business Name: Growing Health - Gary Park
A County Durham man has turned his love of all things green into an innovative enterprise with hopes of bringing the joy of gardening into the lives of others.
Green fingered Gary, 48, from Peterlee has set up Growing Health, an organisation that offers up social therapeutic horticulture as a mobile service to a variety of community based groups, such as dementia, mental health, youth and men’s groups. It also pays visits to homes for the elderly.
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Business Name: Warm Sanctuary - Robert & Michelle Sheen
Robert and Michelle Sheen of County Durham decided it was time to focus their talents towards opening their dream business, ‘Warm Sanctuary’, after finding inspiration at a local enterprise fair.
The couple have opened Warm Sanctuary in Durham City. A unique showroom – Warm Sanctuary holds the answer to all flooring and interior decorating needs.
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Coola Shaker - Andrew & Melanie Richardson
A County Durham couple are shaking up a storm in Consett having opened the doors to the town’s only milkshake bar - Coola Shaker.
Andrew Richardson, 32, and his wife Melanie, 37 opened the milkshake wonderland earlier this year with funding and support from Be Enterprising’s Enterprise Coaching programme. Enterprise Coaching is a Solutions for Business Product.
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Amore - Sharon Cole
A County Durham entrepreneur has injected some American flare into the area with the opening of her beauty parlour with a difference.
Mum of one, Sharon Cole, from Ferryhill, has finally realised her dream and opened Amore Nails and Beauty, a shop that caters for all a woman’s beautifying needs, thanks to funding and support from Be Enterprising, County Durham’s Local Enterprise Growth Initiative (LEGI).
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Sprint Personal Training - Oliver Alanis & Trevor Flowers
Two local lads have fought off the possibility of redundancy by turning their love of fitness into a new business venture.
Oliver Alanis, 20, and Trevor Flowers, 26, from Bishop Auckland, decided it was time to take their future into their own hands and launch ‘Sprint Personal Training’, a mobile service that guarantees to have clients fighting fit like the positive pair.
