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LANCASHIRE BUSINESS DAY
Dave Walker
Derry receives his award from Joanne Hindley, Lancashire Business View sales director, and publisher Richard Slater
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He told the Lancashire Business Day audience how his company has grown to five sites and revealed it will be adding another 10 in 2026.
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He added: “I don’t see myself as a business leader and I have imposter syndrome. Looking back at myself when I was younger, the best advice I would give is ‘don’t chase the money’.
“That’s what I did for a good 15 years of my life. With Secret Garden Glamping it is the opposite and I’ve never thought about the money.
“I think ‘what would my 10-year-old-self be doing?’. He’d be out in the woods with his brother building dens, and that is what I’m doing.”
Dave Walker, managing director of Burnley based digital marketing agency +24, who sponsored the event, was full of praise for Derry. He said: “What a fantastic moment for Derry. He is a genuinely nice bloke.”
He added: “There was a great atmosphere in the room, with lots of fun and giggles and fantastic businesses coming together to celebrate the great county of Lancashire.”
Lancashire Mind was the event’s charity partner and £1,000 was raised from the raffle, selling Lancashire Business Day rosettes and hosting a ‘Generation Game’ on the day.
Lancashire Business Day began with Great Harwood town crier Rawden Kerr welcoming guests with the Lancashire proclamation.
Maria Moriarty-Eames, head of partnerships at Marketing Lancashire, premiered a new video at the event,‘This is Lancashire’.
Rawden Kerr TAKING CENTRE STAGE
A panel of Lancashire business leaders took to the stage to share their stories and outline their hopes for the county’s future.
Elizabeth Porter, managing director of Brysdales; Pauline Wild, managing partner at Forbes Solicitors; Jenny Rutter, chief executive of the British Textile Biennial; and Derry Green, founder of Secret Garden Glamping, came together to present their wish-list for 2026.
Each featured in the pages of Lancashire Business View during 2025.
Elizabeth, whose Chorley based business delivers specialist storage solutions, said she wanted Lancashire “to be seen as a centre and a great place for industry”.
She added: “You look at all the talent that Lancashire has brought to the world and we can aspire to be something different.”
Derry Green said the county needed to get better when it comes to shouting about itself and its achievements.
He added: “We should be centre stage, especially to people in the south. That central London bubble needs to understand what we are doing, what we are creating and what we make in Lancashire.”
Pauline called on business leaders to unite and be more vocal. She said: “We’re really good about shouting about what we do within our vicinity so it is about backing our ambition and pushing ourselves a bit more.”
Jenny Rutter spoke of her support for an elected mayor for Lancashire as part of its devolution journey – a plea that was met with overwhelming support from the audience.
She told the room: “One of the reasons we are overlooked is because we don’t have that kind of political voice or leadership that is driving things forward.
“We do punch above our weight and we do extraordinary things on much less money than other places – but we need more, and a political shift will help deliver that.
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