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judge at a local dog competition which is exciting. It has been a whirl wind of change for me this past few months but I have a steady job now which, I can manage around my family and I know I can pick it up and move with it if I need to in the future. Going self-employed has given me the chance to control my own career and I have made so many new friends and connections in the process, I couldn’t be more pleased.”
employment,” said Holly Savage founder of Rocks Design.
Emma Duffy is a qualified dog grooming specialist who enrolled on cohort one of The University of Wolverhampton’s Armed Forces Dependants’ Business Start-Up Programme, in October 2013. Emma officially launched her business in January of this year after applying to DIO and the Station Commander at RAF Shawbury to allow her to run her business from her Service Families Accommodation. Emma
now has a thriving and regular customer base many of which are from the RAF community.
“Since completing the first part of the programme in October 2013 and officially launching in January my business has picked up fast and I am seeing at least four to five customers a week and making repeat bookings. I have recently been contacted by a charity for dogs and I receive enquiries from their recommendations. I am also going to be a
‘Supporting the Unsung Hero’ is delivered through the Wolverhampton Business Solutions Centre in conjunction with the Black Country Chamber of Commerce. Each cohort offers participants’ information and advice on Self-employment, a Business Start-up Course, Individual and Group mentoring sessions with business advisers from the Black Country Chamber of Commerce.
For further information contact Lianne Bradbury the Armed Forces Co-ordinator at the University of Wolverhampton.
Telephone: 01902 321677 Email:
mod-enquiries@wlv.ac.uk Web:
www.wlv.ac.uk/ supportingtheunsunghero Facebook:
www.facebook.com/ supportingtheunsunghero Twitter: @unsunghero2014
www.raf-ff.org.uk
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