Read how we’ve helped get small business off the ground and launched into successful ventures with our collection of case studies below.
Growing up my childhood consisted of being picked on by my peers in school, snide comments from my family and being bullied. This is where my mental health struggles started. I’ve always had a sense of not belonging or fitting in anywhere, which has led me to feeling inadequate with low esteem. Regards to my […]
Luke is skilled at IT and worked for a company developing videos for clients up until Covid. During the lockdowns, his employer made him go self-employed and then stopped using him. He partnered with another company then, and helped them set up studios for making videos, investing in it, but he was forced out of […]
Dewi Simmonds Dewi is now the owner of “True Ground” – a business offering groundworks landscaping and gardening around his local community in South Wales, and he is building an income and rebuilding his life through it. Dewi had a hard beginning in life with an abusive father and a very unhappy childhood as a […]
Shannon approached Purple Shoots for a loan when no one else would help her with funding to get stock and to be able to start up a business. After a childhood in care with adopted & then foster parents and a number of years working, Shannon realised her health would be better if she could […]
Graham was born and grew up in the old mining valleys of South Wales. He has previously worked for many years in big ad agencies and his own boutique creative consultancy in London, but his vision and his heart was always to come home and do something here which would help the communities he came […]
In the heart of Abertillery, nestled among the rolling hills of Wales, Joshua Hill and his wife Esther have been cultivating a haven for tabletop game enthusiasts. Their business, Hearthside Games, began as a dream to merge their passion for gaming with their desire to foster a welcoming community space. Now, poised for expansion, they’ve […]
Purple Shoots is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales
Registered Company No. 08603690
Registered Charity No. 1155385
Registered Address: 2 Church Street, Pontypridd, CF37 2TH
Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, number 720894
ICO Number: ZA018973