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Helen hoping to clean up at awards ceremony
A CLEANING company inMaid- stone has been nominated for an award in a national business start- up competition, writes Jade Schopman. Helen Brown (28,) of Chamber-
lain Avenue, started her own com- pany, Helen’s Domestic Goddess, after leaving school at 18with poor A-levels, due to bullying. Since her firm started in 2016,
Helen’s Domestic Goddess offers regular domestic cleaning and spring cleans, aswell as carpet and oven cleans. Miss Brown,who lives in a semi-
detached house with her two kit- tens, Tommy and Tessy, is now a finalist in the Start-Up Awards for SideHustle of the Year. Miss Brown said: “It’s so nice to
be recognised for all the hardwork I have put in. I started the business about three years ago after com- pleting a Business Enterprise Coursewith The Prince’s Trust, and now I’m the founder of my own company.”
The former Invicta Grammar
School pupil described her dad,Al- istair Brown, as her main inspira- tion in the industry, as he created his own successful garden mainte- nance firm.Miss Brown will be at- tending the awards ceremony at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington onWednesday, November 21. She said: “It’s so exciting to be in the
same category as big businesses who have been in such hugemaga- zines like GQ and have been doing this a lot longer than I have. I was so shocked to be nominated, as I am a small local cleaning company against these big brands. Itwill be a good night, I just can’t believe I am a finalist!” Helen’s Domestic Goddess is up
against six other impressive com- panies, who have similarly started their businesses fromscratch. The winner will be judged by a
collection of iconic entrepreneurs including Simon Broughton, head of business banking at RBS; Henry Faure Walker, chief executive of Newsquest; Cath Kidston MBE, founder and creative director of Cath Kidston Limited; and David Buttress, CEO of JUST EAT.
YOU can vote for Helen to win the SideHustleof theYearawardonline on The Start Up Awards website,
startups.co.uk/startups-awards/
News Science is fun
AFAMILY-friendly science session has proved so popularwith young boffins, their siblings and parents, that it has already been a sell-out. Maidstone Museum has sold all
its tickets for the event on Satur- day, November 17. Lucky partici- pants will get to explore crazy liquids and carry out “fun experi- ments” using everyday household materials.
Comic night CONTROVERSIAL
comedian
Stephen K Amos appears at the Hazlitt Theatre on January 20 next year. On his list of targets will be
Brexit and Donald Trump, accord- ing to the Earl Street venue. Tickets are £19. Call 01622
758611. Co-op opens
ANEW£705,000Co-opwill launch in Maidstone town centre on Thursday, November 15. The store, on the old Linens Di-
rect site inWeek Street,will feature a bakery, self-scan checkouts and a Costa Coffee facility. It is expected to generate 18 full and part-time jobs.
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