As serial entrepreneurs go, Jo Irving, owner of The Loft in Reigate, is a pretty good local role model. Obsessed with business, she’s owned a hair salon since 1999 and has multiple…
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If you were always trying to avoid PE lessons during school, the thought of becoming a full-time physical instructor would surely send you running for the hills. But that’s what happened to…
Fifteen years ago, Toni Hawkes enrolled in a floristry course to learn the basics of flower arrangements. Little did she know it would form the later foundation for Flos Flowers, her blooming…
If having your home decorated and designed by Hannah and Steph is as much fun as interviewing them, then you’re in for a real treat. Their passion for interior design and a…
Since retraining as an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine practitioner, Ellie Littler has found a new life in Reigate, where she treats physical and emotional issues at Chime, her practice on Church Street.…
Conner Wickens owns Bell Street Barbers, right in the middle of Reigate. He bought the business about 4 years ago having already worked there for 2 years, while also working as a…
When garden designer, Laura Bedell-Pearce, moved to Reigate from London with her husband to start a family, she found herself with a “proper garden” for the first time in her life and…
Sumita Nandy is the best advert for her own spa: an astonishing three decades in the high-end skin care and treatment business makes you think she must’ve started when she was still…
Claire Paphitis – or The Ayurveda Coach – got interested in Ayurvedic practice after a tough year. A former international music agent who studied music at the prestigious King’s College London and Royal…
Kirsty McCole set up Charlie Brown’s Dog Walking (named after Snoopy’s owner) after watching an in-flight movie. Being a flight attendant working out of both Gatwick and Heathrow, the films didn’t usually…
For Laura Bird, of Birdhouse Design, staging houses to sell them is a calling, not a job – “I just love it: it’s so satisfying and I will not stop until it’s…
Enjoying people is key to Simon Knibb’s eponymous web-design and branding business, Knibbs. After training as a graphic designer, Simon left college and worked for large branding and marketing agencies in London…