For many of our borrowers starting a new business, it’s industry experience and knowledge that provides a key platform for success. After all, your product or service is what your business is built on. However, when experience and opportunity collide, more often than not, it’s a perfect match.
That was the case for Sophie Haynes, who applied for one of our interest-free loans in 2016. Over the course of the start of her career within the beauty industry, Sophie had worked in various areas. However, when mobile working, an opportunity presented itself which was too good for Sophie to ignore.
“At the start of my career within the industry, I was lucky enough to explore so many different avenues,” she explained.
“From working in salons and a beauty academy, to later beauty halls in department stores, I then worked aboard a P&O cruise liner which sailed the South Pacific. When I returned to land, I started doing a little mobile work whilst working as a make-up ambassador for an American brand. During that time, a quaint Grade 2-listed building came onto the market in Melton Mowbray. That gave me the inspiration to open my own beauty salon in my hometown.”