Read how we’ve helped get small business off the ground and launched into successful ventures with our collection of case studies below.
Martin Perkins’ life was well on track a few years ago, with a good job which took him all over Europe, The Middle East and Africa. However, an unexpected redundancy brought him back home and he tried to build a new life, running a business doing fencing and landscaping. He struggled with depression and personal […]
Our Self-Reliant Groups (SRGs) are a brilliant way to help people build community, purpose and positive changes in their lives. Here’s a story from SRG member Dave, who is a member of the gardening group at the Gathering Place in St Athan, where we have an SRG Hub in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. […]
Abigail – Serenity & Sage Therapies My name is Abigail Carter, I am a single parent of two teenage boys and live rurally in Carmarthenshire. I now own and run a small holistic therapies business, offering different types of massage and relaxing treatments. I qualified many years ago but used my skills as a hobby […]
Leanne – Alba Roses Holistic I am a single mum, living in Pembrokeshire and a long term full-time Carer for my 23 year old son with special needs and in receipt of benefits. I wanted to set up my own business to prepare for when my son goes into supported living. I wanted to do […]
[in her own words] My name is Jamie, I am a 44-year-old woman and I live in Carmarthen. I have worked in clothes alterations professionally for 15 years. My business is Morgan le Fay and is based at 17 Nott Sq, Carmarthen SA31 1PQ. I decided to start my business as I was made redundant […]
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 […]