Female Founder Spotlight: Tabitha Rout
7 March 2021|Latest Posts, Meet the Successful Founder Positioned on the corner of First Avenue and Fifth Avenue in Brixton Village, Tabitha Rout’s shop Circus opened in Spring 2010 and was one of the first in a new generation of businesses that helped usher in the Brixton Village renaissance. Tabitha studied textiles and has had a […]
Female Founder Spotlight: Milena Mackowiak
7 March 2021|Latest Posts, Meet the Successful Founder Stems Wilder is an ecologically influenced florist, deeply attracted to the natural world founded and run by Milena Mackowiak. The humble Brixton Village studio brings the local area up to date with the latest floristry trends, delivering fresh cut-stem and dry flower designs consciously arranged to show […]
Female Founders Spotlight: Anne Fairbrother
7 March 2021|Latest Posts, Meet the Successful Founder Brixton Cornercopia was originally founded as a shop project to re-energise Brixton Village by Anne Fairbrother and her partner, chef Ian Riley in 2009. Born as a shop with a difference, where food products were locally made to support and highlight produce from its community, Brixton Cornercopia […]
Female Founders Spotlight: Isabel Zapf
7 March 2021|Latest Posts, Meet the Successful Founder “From a very young age, my inspiration was to align performance and wellbeing. Living a successful life professionally as well as personally means for me facing challenges with ease, confidence and resilience while keeping my heart light and my attitude positive. Every morning is a fresh start. We […]
Female Founder Spotlight: Emily Watson
7 March 2021|Latest Posts, Meet the Successful Founder BumbleZest is a healthy drinks range created by Emily Watson (along wth her husband Dan), which was dreamt up in their South London kitchen. You can now find them, in Whole Foods, As Nature Intended and Planet Organic, as well as online at Holland & Barrett, Selfridges […]
Female Founder Spotlight: Kate Horne & Louise Nicholson
7 March 2021|Latest Posts, Meet the Successful Founder With a career in product (and a love of baking on the side), Kate set to work on some cake kit concepts. It was then, after meeting Louise, the idea for Craft and Crumb really came together. Louise’s background in sales and marketing, coupled with her time […]
Female Founder Spotlight: Cathryn Zielinski
7 March 2021|Latest Posts, Meet the Successful Founder Cathryn launched Simplyseedz out of a need to change her lifestyle and eating habits as she had previously skipped breakfast and then snacked while out on the road in her former corporate life. She started making her own breakfast cereals and toasting seeds purely for her own […]
Female Founder Spotlight: Justine Murphy
7 March 2021|Latest Posts, Meet the Successful Founder Founder, owner and Cordon Bleu trained chef, Justine Murphy launched mymuybueno – now a multi-division international food business including an award-winning deli, cookery school and chef agency – in Mallorca in 2011. Having survived a traumatic and food-deprived childhood, she fled Britain to chef on super yachts […]
Female Founder Spotlight: Cecily Mills
7 March 2021|Latest Posts, Meet the Successful Founder In 2013, Cecily, who was commuting from Brighton to London for a retail management job, became obsessed with the idea of replicating the smooth, creamy indulgence of dairy ice cream, in a natural, dairy-free version. A year later, she packed up her life in Brighton, headed back […]
Female Founder Spotlight: Dr Chen Davies
7 March 2021|Latest Posts, Meet the Successful Founder Dr Chen Davies is the founder of Latchaid, an app to help new mums who are experiencing difficulty with the “latching” aspect of breastfeeding. As well as interfering with the mother-child bonding process, an inability to latch can also cause serious physical and mental issues for the […]
